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The second stone mentioned in previous misc. post has now been donated to Leek Museum and is on display.
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Been 8years since I last was at Offerton West. So overgrown was it back then that I wasn't in a hurry to return.....gave it another shot today and the circle/ring cairn is quite prominent now, although the damaged western side is covered in dying bracken.
Worth a look. Photos dont really do it justice.
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Now missing its centre and western side this would've at one time been quite an impressive cairn. It overlooks the settlement and field systems on the improved Highlow Bank.
From the standing stone, follow the wall east for a couple of hundred yards. When the wall changes direction the cairn is visible over the wall.
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A Coppy Of Ye Boundaries Of Abney Lordship 12 Edward II (1317)
".....and so to ye slack att Highlow Head and so straight over the moore to a round hill of knowle called Berching Hatt from thence to Standing Stone."
I think Berching Hatt refers to the once large cairn at SK211 802, still on the parish boundary. Highlow Bank Cairn.
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2 large cairns at Crow Chin, just north of High Neb, on Stanage Edge. Built over an area that had been in use during the Mesolithic.
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This is quite a large cairn, somewhere around 20 or so metres in diameter and less disturbed than its northern neighbour. A ring of gritstone kerbstones surround it.
SK22481 85614.
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Parking at Dennis Knoll the cairn is about three quarters of a mile away on the top of Stanage Edge. The first half mile is all up hill with a final rocky scramble up to the Edge proper.
I'd left Matlock bathing in the sun under clear blue skies, but here only 20miles North, the wind howled up along Stanage Edge blowing in rain and hail storms every few minutes.
The north cairn at Crow Chin is around 20m in diameter and ringed by a gritstone kerb. Several smaller cairns from the excavation lie beyond its rim on the north side. And the stones of the dismantled cist within the cairn circumference to the south.
On a clearer day the views out over Win Hill, Lose Hill and Crook Hill would be superb.
SK22469 85614.
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This is now under an open access/right to roam area.
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Approaching from the south along the Duke's Drive that crosses the moor.....get to the old reservoir keepers house (now RSPB) keep to the vehicle track to the left and through the gate (as it skirts the property) 200m further on keep looking to the right, the circle is between the track and a large grassy/bracken clearing 50m from the track......there's a quite well worn path around the circles circumference.
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Experts help unlock stone's secret past
Matlock Mercury:Published on Friday 23 September 2011 09:35
A stone at the popular tourist site Gardom's Edge in the Derbyshire Peak District may in fact be a 4,000 year old seasonal sundial, experts suggest. Academics in astronomy and landscape history from Nottingham Trent University will present the findings from a study of the site at the European Society for Astronomy in Culture conference in Portugal this week.
The project involved surveying and analysing the orientation of the single standing stone, which is linked to a nearby stone age monument, including its deterioration through erosion.
The experts have been able to make their prediction based on the stone's orientation, the dip of its slope and the altitude of the sun at midsummer.
It is thought that late Neolithic people may have used the illumination of the slanted side of the 2.2m high stone as a marker for seasons and, crucially, seasonal migration, which was so important at the time.
Single standing stones are quite rare in the Peak District, and the possible use as a seasonal sundial is unique within the British Isles.
The univeristy's Dr Daniel Brown said: "We know that people here moved from summer pastures on higher hills to winter retreats located in valleys.
"This single standing stone gives us an idea of how ancient man perceived the skies and how ancient monuments and landscapes can reflect this."
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