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Ive been to Barbrook 1 three times so I was only coming really to see number 2, but you cant just walk past a stone circle, ignore it completely ?, it just cant be done, not by me anyway. The sun was shining when I arrived, for the first time ever i'm sure, it was early afternoon on the autumn equinox, I wasnt alone on the moor by any stretch, the other people helped to turn it from a sometimes dull and sad place into a sunny and happy and vibrant place, the stones looking as good as ever. There are still pennies in the tops of stones, going towards the cairn through the circle, the stone to the right of the tallest stone has maybe three cupmarks on its upper surface. The cairn fifty yards up the hill is almost but not quite too perfectly restored, from here a path passes two or three other restored cairns, on route to Barbrook 2. |
Posted by postman23rd September 2011ce Edited 23rd September 2011ce |
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Hi. Sorry its taken so long to reply to this. I have been away for a while. I didn't mean that Barbrook Moor was in any immediate danger, except for that of visitors stomping all over the sites. I was just really shocked to see that this (and other) sites are not better cared for. Most people are unaware of them anyway I suppose or just don't care. But I feel they are a valuable part of our heritage and so much can be learned about our ancestors from them. When I was on Barbrook Moor I felt that it more could be done to protect thes and other sites. I read so much about ancient sites that have been documented in the early 1900's but have disappeared since then and I am just afraid that soon we will loose all of these sites. Sorry if I caused any confusion or worry, it was just an observation. Much love Karris |
Posted by Karris 2nd June 2007ce |
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Visited this one on 28th August 2006. Its quite easy to find and very beautiful. This whole area is one big settlement. As I wandered around looking for Barbrook 2 I felt really sad that this site will perish soon. This would be a valuable heritage site, and should be maintained. I feel a strongly worded letter to the Peak Distric Council comming on! |
Posted by Karris 29th August 2006ce |
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I met up with Stu in Chesterfield, we were due to go and hear a bunch of lectures but it was a sunny day and when Stu suggested that we go and check out some circles I didn't have to think twice. The drive up to Big Moor took us through the beautiful Derbyshire uplands, groups of birches and coarse grasses gives us an insight into the prehistoric landscape. The circle is a cracker with it's lovely south western stone. This part of the moor is divided in two by the steep sided valley of the Bar brook. Stu tells me that there are hut circles and field systems on the other side of the valley which would indicte that the living and the dead inhabited well defined regions of the moor. There are cairns dotted around the circle with one particular beautiful cairn looking down on the circle. It's worth mooching around the cairns, some are well defined and large stones have been used to enclose them. A lovely necropolis. |
Posted by fitzcoraldo20th January 2004ce |
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A very nice embanked circle, looking very dramatic in today's grey weather. The most prominent stone appears to be to the south-west. Flowers were laid on it today. The cairn next to the circle is very bizarre, some one had mutilated two onions in a variety of mystical ways Dave 5th January 2004 |
Posted by daveyravey5th January 2004ce Edited 19th January 2004ce |
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What a fantastic place! Pretty and with small stones, of immense charm in this enormous landscape, the circle looks skyward. It is of a very human scale somehow. We mused as to the weathering patterns on the stones and wondered if what looked like a recumbent had actually been upright once, but our ponderings were conclusion-less and Barbrook I kept her secrets. This post appears as part of the weblog entry Six of the best with a wounded knee
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Posted by Jane19th November 2003ce Edited 19th November 2003ce |
| A great place to chill. I'd had an absolute bastard of a journey down to Derbyshire. First I was fined for speeding (for the first time ever) and then involved in an accident with two other cars (not my fault!). I visited the bull ring after the accident, and was brought down even further by the disgusting way the monument is treated. By the time I arrived at barbrook I just wasn't in the mood but my bad mood soon lifted as i took in the various sites on the moor. The circle seems to be a victim of it's own accessibility - the cup marks in one of the stones were filled with coins which have left black marks. |
Posted by IronMan10th June 2002ce |
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John Barnatt reckoned the circle to have been designed so that it could accurately mark all the major solar and lunar events throughout the calendar. He suggested the circle had 8 outliers and, using these stones and the cairn above the circle, each event aligned to a landscape feature that marked such an event In a way, the sad thing is.... Barnatt changed his mind several years later.... |
Posted by stubob26th March 2002ce Edited 2nd February 2005ce |
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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 McGrail2nd January 2002ce |
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A freezing cold place at the Winter Solstice, the sun standing still almost defeated by the bright, shiny, slate-grey clouds and flurries of snow. Trying to light candles in the biting wind, the children stamping their feet to feel them, and the offering of wine left un-corked and frozen. On the moorsides hereabouts our ancestors lived and toiled, remains of their field systems still evident. It is hoped that the climes were more clement then. I notice a scar across the middle of the circle; a caesarian cut to birth the Earth Mother's mystery into the hands of the archaeologists. To learn more they should be standing as we are, reverently, shivering, at the turn of the sun and welcoming the youthful Mabon back into the world. |
Posted by Serenissima 28th December 2001ce |
| Barbrook One is a perfectly formed circle in a wonderful setting.It shouldn't be missed.I also noticed what looked like the remains of another stone circle actually running through the path leading up to BB1 from the south.Visited the 2nd circle which is to the east of the reservoir.It took some finding as the stones are small and the grass was long.Quite a large circle of 21 stones i counted.Others may disagree on my calculation. |
Posted by jdellis 17th November 2001ce |
| If you are out and about in Derbyshire then I can recommend avisit to Barbrook Moor. Not only is there the circle shown in the Modern Antiquarian but on the moor itself are two more stone circles (No's 2 and 3), loads of burial cairns and small ring-cairns and just down the pathe from Barbrook 1 is a row of (i think) 9 quite large stones. I love going to this place as I always stumble accross something new eveytime I go there. |
Posted by Andy Brooks 3rd December 2000ce |
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When the cairn above Barbrook I was excavated and restored in the early 1980's four carved stones were found. a) rectangular slab with a cup and ring marking. b) triangular slab with 4 cup marks along an edge. c) single cup mark on small slab d) slab with 2 cups on one side and one on the other. All the stones are stored in the Weston Park museum in Sheffield. |
Posted by stubob 28th November 2007ce |
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