Prehistory

The area abounds in antiquities.  West at Tideslow was a neolithic round barrow excavated in 1824, 1947 and 1968.  Bones of a skeleton and skull were found and the remains were deposited at Buxton museum.   Over to the east of Grindlow another barrow (Long Low) was excavated in 1862 by Benjamin Bagshaw Junior.   A skeleton and skull in good condition along with a drinking vessel were discovered.  Just down the valley near Coplowdale are two tumuli, Coplow and Stanlow. Stanlow was excavated in 2004/5 by  local group Arteamus and human bones and an intact skeleton were found.

In prehistoric times, there is evidence that peoples of the Bronze/Iron age inhabited the area of Camphill known as Burr Tor.   Thought of as a hill fort in the Peak alongside the likes of Mam Tor, Fin Cop and Ball Cross, Bakewell, (Scheduled Monuments 1952), it was reassessed in 1994 by English Heritage as a prehistoric stock enclosure.   A stone slab with cup and ring markings was found here in 1824, and was placed at the Sheffield Museum.