Bull Ring

Also known as:
Dove Holes
Nearest town:
Buxton (6km SSW)
OS reference:
SK078782
OS sheet:
119
Latitude:
53° 18' 1.21 N
Longitude:
1° 52' 58.61 W
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Image of Bull Ring (Henge) by juamei

Looking towards the henge from besides the bonfire on fireworks night 2013. The people higher at the back are stood on the eastern bank of the henge.

juamei
juamei Dec 4, 2013
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Image of Bull Ring (Henge) by A R Cane

A large lump of stone in the quarried section of the henge with our good friend Karl the Viking for scale. It would be nice to think this once formed part of a circle, a la Arbor Low, but sadly it didn't.

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A R Cane
A R Cane Mar 1, 2013
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Image of Bull Ring (Henge) by Blingo_von_Trumpenst

Bull Ring henge with a lot of Photoshop work. Not easy to capture the whole thing without crazy lenses or aerial photos. I like the contrast between the straight pylons and the circular henge . . .

Don't forget to come to the open day on 30th July for as much henge related fun as you can shake a flint axe at . . .

Blingo_von_T

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Blingo_von_Trumpenst
Blingo_von_Trumpenst May 30, 2011
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Image of Bull Ring (Henge) by broen

I am amazed that we found this site, situated next to a cricket ground, some waste land and behind a church who's walls couldn't be any closer ( a familiar story), not sure what it would look like without the ground cover, but quite pretty with it.

*NB-Notice the family sledging on the banks of the monument

Image credit: broen
broen
broen Feb 1, 2003
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Articles

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BULL RING HENGE OPEN DAY – FREE TO ALL

Blingo_von_Trumpenst
Blingo_von_Trumpenst Jul 29, 2011
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Final plug – our Open Day is happening tomorrow (30th July) from 11-5ish. Displays of stone tools (60+ neolithic stone axes), artifacts recovered from the henge and talks all day. Excellent food available, photo competition (bring your prints of megalithic sites) and general stones discussion.

This event is a rare beast – if you have any interest in stones and can get to Derbyshire then this really is the place to be – come and join us for all things hengey !

Also a finds evaluation service is on offer if you have any stones that you think might be human made.

COME HELP SAVE OUR HENGE.

I look forward to meeting you (I'll be the one surrounded by stone axes).

Blingo

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FREE OPEN DAY at Bullring Henge 30th July 11-7

Blingo_von_Trumpenst
Blingo_von_Trumpenst Apr 20, 2011
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Hi folks,

We can now announce that there will be a FREE OPEN DAY at the Bullring Henge on Saturday 30th July from 11am til 7pm. Talks from 1-5pm from Buxton Museum and many eminent speakers. Displays of finds from the henge and a display of some of my neolithic stone axes all day. Tour of the henge with detailed info and discussion. We are having a picnic and acoustic music in the henge from 5-7pm (bring your own picnic and instruments). The event is part of www.megalithic.co.uk 10th anniversary (link: megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146413973 ) and also part of the British Festival of Archaeology. The event is completely free to everyone and we are hoping for a large turnout. Raising awareness of this majestic ancient monument will go a long way to protecting it (especially with local support). The event will be in the Community Association Hall (just off A6 in the middle of Dove Holes behind the cricket pitch and 20m from the henge). If you can put up any A4 posters for us then please email me ([email protected]) and I can send you some. We are also open to any speakers that may wish to do a talk on prehistory (particularly in the Peak District). This will be a really fun day out at a superb ancient site with many like-minded people – so come and join us for a superb day of all things prehistoric in the Peak. Blingo_von_T

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Campaign to protect the Bullring Henge in Derbyshire

Blingo_von_Trumpenst
Blingo_von_Trumpenst Feb 2, 2011
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The Bullring henge in Dove Holes, Derbyshire is in need of protection and the love it deserves. It has survived around 4500 years but could be gone in the next 50.

I have started a campaign to try to protect it. Much positive support already received from people all over the world. If you can help in any way or if you just have a message of support then please contact me.

Blingo_von_Trumpenst

[email protected]

The single page article about the Bullring in the 1905 Derbyshire Archaeological Journal ends with the line:

"Can we save it?" – 106 years later I am answering that question – "Yes, Yes, Yes"

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Blingo_von_Trumpenst
Blingo_von_Trumpenst Feb 9, 2011
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PLEASE HELP SAVE THE BULLRING HENGE . . .

I visit at least every 2 weeks. The henge is currently devoid of rubbish and if there is anything then I pick it up and recycle/dump it properly.

I have started a campaign to protect this mighty henge. I am getting support from all over the world.

If you can help in any way (even just a message of support) then please please contact me.

I can no longer accept the gradual destruction of this sacred space.

SAVE OUR HENGE !!

Keep rocking in the free world dudes,

Blingo_von_T

[email protected]

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megadread
megadread Dec 10, 2009
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Seems you spoke too soon Stu, during a visit this summer i found the site looking like a tip, remains of fires on the edge of the henge and rubbish dumped everywhere, seems by all the dog shit i encountered some of the locals are using the site as a dog toilet.

Normal service has resumed. : (

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slumpystones
slumpystones Jan 6, 2007
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One of those places you felt like saying aloud "well at least someone cares that you're here" when you stood aghast 4 or 5 years ago. But strangely, as reported, the locals must have decided to stop the flytipping [God knows how they get in there with the barriers all over the place] and protect it a bit more at last. A treasure in the midst has an effect, now as always.

Also overlooked, on the South-East corner of the churchyard wall adjoining the site, there are the remains of a Neolithic barrow-on-a-barrow , hardly more than a hump now but evidence that this immediate area [actually quite flat but horribly exposed to the East] may be a bit of an eyesore now, but was once considered more important.

In Dove Holes defence, the lanes surrounding the station contain beautiful tiny cottages, and if it wasn't for the A6 ploughing through it, leaving traces of the quarried muck everywhere, it would be just another Peak village.

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X
Xia Dec 28, 2006
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The site still looks fine, and is being looked after. Obviously, the locals use it – kids will gather at such places, obviously!

As you come through Dove Holes not fromt he Buxton end – fromt he other end – at exactly 30 mph because this is Britain's numer one speed trap zone – seriously, do only 30... and look out for the bus shelter as you come in to Dove Holes – that is where the police like to hide with their camera!.... go past that and you see the cricket pavilion set back from the road on the left, about 45 seconds in to Dove Holes... The Bull Ring is right behind the cricket pavillion... Turn left, off the main road and just drive up and park up outside the cricket pavillion and you are virtually parked on the site!

A really nice place, obvuously some of the magic has gone, what with the proximity to the houses etc... but, I went up recently on the full moon and it was magical. I think it is a little smaller than Arbor Low, but is clearly a sister site of some kind – very similar design. Obviously some connection between these people – unless it was some kind of competition?? Either way, a really nice place, and for those coming that way to get to other sites, well worth stopping off and paying a little visit – it's literraly ten steps away from where you park the car.

X

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stubob
stubob Oct 24, 2005
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Crikey Me!

What's happened to the Bull Ring...? This is still Dove Holes ain't it?

All nicely mown, no motorbike tracks and totally devoid of any rubbish. Even a little information board has appeared on the path between the henge and the oval barrow.

Looks as if the village is finally taking a bit of pride in the Bull Ring and what is one of Northern Britains best upstanding henges.

It's always been a worthy place to visit and in its present state perhaps more so. Even a typical wet October day in the High Peak didn't put a damper on the experience.

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broen
broen Feb 2, 2003
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The site itself is a gem, even with the neighbours and without the stones. Being so close to the village and essentially the church my mind wonders over the history of this place and climbing up on the bank behind the site gives views to hills beyond which makes the neighbouring plots seem (a little) less invading.

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IronMan
IronMan Jun 10, 2002
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This lovely henge is in almost complete disgrace. The perimeter is treat like a rubbish dump, yet the interior seem well looked after. A cricket pavillion sits at one side of the henge – couldn't the people there spend a little time looking after this amazing site right on their doorstep?

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Miscellaneous

Bull Ring
Henge
Chance
Chance Dec 28, 2014
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Details of henge on Pastscape

The Bull Ring, a Henge monument, extant as an earthwork, comprising a sub-oval enclosure defined by a ditch and external bank. The site has been damaged in the past by quarrying, while there are also traces of ridge and furrow in the interior. The maximum external diameter is circa 85 metres. The bank is circa 1.1 metres high and up to 9.8 metres wide. The ditch is up to 12.2 metres wide and 0.6 metres deep. There are two opposing causewayed entrances at the north and south. Excavation has occurred on three occasions – the bank was sectioned in 1902; some potsherds, possibly Beaker/Early Bronze Age were found. In 1949 several trenches across bank and ditch were dug, and some investigation of both entrances occurred. Two possible Beaker sherds were found, one apparently below the ditch silts. The ditch also contained flint flakes and scrapers plus some ox bones and teeth. In 1984-5 a large area outside the southern entrance was investigated. Only undated and post medieval features were found, although some flints were present. An 18th century source states that the enclosure once contained a stone setting. In 1789, apparently, only a single stone remained.

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Link

Bull Ring
Henge
Chris Collyer
Chris Collyer Feb 19, 2003
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English Heritage

Geophysical Survey of the site -

"The aim of the survey was to help gain a greater understanding of the monument and the activity that had occurred within it; to inform the future management of the site, particularly in relation to its repair and maintenance; and to attempt to reveal any trace of a former stone circle."

Article mentions the possibility of a buried stone but notes-

"The magnetic survey has unfortunately been severely affected by modern disturbance, possibly through the use of the ditch as a dumping area"

It's a shame the way it's been treated.

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juamei
juamei
Nov 2012
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