Three small cairns stand on the southern end of Gardom's edge, conical stoneheaps that have been added to by climbers and walkers for years. The 'Three Men' were raised on older foundations. Beneath them lies a much larger and older barrow, a low, circular mound composed of rounded gritstone boulders partially obscured by turf.
Immediate answers are hard to come by as the site has yet to see any systematic excavation.
However, the long history of research on barrows and cairns in the region does provide a few clues. Many of these sites were excavated with varying degrees of accuracy during the mid-19th century, most notably by antiquarians such as Thomas Bateman and Samuel Carrington. Since that time, more detailed recording has added much to the general picture established by them. However, histories vary from one site and area to another and we should allow that these places may have held a varied significance for people at the time. Sometimes begun as open areas for the exposure of bodies and for other forms of observance, many barrows were built and elaborated over protracted periods of time - certainly years and perhaps even generations.