Micah Salt

[5] Salt was a major donor to the Buxton Museum in its early days, providing numerous artefacts on loan, which were subsequently bestowed as gifts.

They discovered Roman artefacts, including bronze jewellery, enamelled brooches, pottery fragments, coins and an iron and bone knife.

[11] In 1894, Salt excavated the burial barrow at the summit of Grin Low hill, before Grinlow Tower (now known as Solomon's Temple) was rebuilt there between 1894 and 1896.

[12] The Five Wells neolithic chambered tomb on Taddington Moor was first excavated by the local archaeologist Thomas Bateman in 1846.

Subsequent excavations (by Llewellyn Jewitt, William Lukis and Micah Salt between 1862 and 1901) found further human remains, pottery and flint tools in the chambers and passages and a separate cist (stone coffin) within the mound.

[14] In 1902, Salt dug a trench across the west ditch at The Bull Ring neolithic henge at Dove Holes, although his findings have since been lost.