Barbrook I Stone Circle View all content for Barbrook I (54 posts)

Visited 31/12/01CE. Today Big Moor had a covering of 4-5 inches of snow, making it hard to distinguish anything off the track. We thought we'd found it twice before we actually did ... there's so many piles of stone, cairns and cairn-a-likes out here. When we finally located it, it was obvious, and reminiscent of the Nine Ladies on Stanton Moor and the Nine Maidens in Cornwall. All these Derbyshire circles are so small. As with Stoke Flat, most of the stones are less than a metre tall, with only the SW stone being over 1 metre (and having an eco-friendly offering of berries in it's weather-worn grooves), but the views and the vibes out here are commanding. Just outside the circle, to the NE, is a well-preserved cairn. According to the Morgans' "Rock Around the Peak" book, an excavation on this in the 60s revealed four stones decorated with cup & ring marks (now in the store at Sheffield Museum) as well as the usual bits of pottery and cremated bone.

Posted by Holy McGrail 2nd January 2002ce

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