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Eagle StoneNatural Rock Feature
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| Access here is pretty easy. Park at Curbar Gap car park and take the main path across Baslow Edge (or wander along the edge itself if you wish and take in the views). The main path leads straight to it and you can see it coming a mile off. |
Posted by Kozmik_Ken12th June 2009ce |
| Don't use the Google earth add on to mark this site on your map it's miles out and you'll end up in a bog in the middle of nowhere. |
Posted by megadread15th August 2008ce |
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170m to the east of the Eagle Stone is a ruined ring cairn on the northern edge of a small cairnfield. The ring cairn is roughly 17m in diameter, the rubble bank is very overgrown but is on average 40cm high and 2m wide. The northern section of the bank is lost to 2 hollow trackways. Hardly impressive it does however have some excellent views to the White Peak in the south. |
Posted by stubob25th June 2003ce |
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| The menfolk of the area were said to have to climb this stone in order to prove themselves worthy of marriage. |
Posted by Kozmik_Ken 11th June 2009ce |
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According to 'Household Tales with other traditional remains' by Sidney Oldhall Addy (1895), the Eagle Stone turns around when the cock crows (p56). The book may be seen online at http://www.openlibrary.org/details/householdtaleswi00addyrich |
Posted by Rhiannon11th November 2006ce |
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The Eagle Stone is similar in appearance to the Mother Cap Stone and lies at the edge of a cairnfield, on Baslow Edge. On certain mornings of the year the stone is said to bounce around the moors. Eagle Stone is thought to be a corruption of Aigle's Stone a Celtic deity who threw large stones. |
Posted by stubob 9th January 2003ce Edited 11th November 2006ce |
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