Looking northeast across the flat top of the cairn.
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Looking down on the site from Sir William Hill. The cairn is in the heather where the slope flattens out.
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Spencer says the stones are on a high point visible from miles around, so here’s some landscape context from Sir William Hill to the southwest. Ox Stones (not themselves visible at this distance) are on the high ground very slightly right of centre. Between there and here are Wet Withens stone circle (near distance, in the heather) as well as the sites clustered above Millstone Edge, including plenty of cairns, Carl Wark hillfort and Winyard’s Nick standing stone. Chock full of stuff, in fact.
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Landscape context – the outcrop is prominent on the skyline just right of centre. Seen from the hillside above Grindleford to the southwest.
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From the northwest, dog and walker for scale.
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Looking east towards Harland Edge. Park Gate stone circle is in the lighter area to the left between here and the treeline.
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The outer rim of the cairn is defined by some half-buried stonework.
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Approaching from the southeast. The cairn is prominent to the left of the track.
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Looking east across the circle towards Harland Edge.
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Looking north with the largest stone in the foreground. Hard to believe from the failing light that this was 2:30 in the afternoon.
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Two of the marks on the prominent stone. The lower one (bottom left) is jagged and shallow – this could easily be one of the bullet scars left by troops practicing their aim. The upper one is much smoother and looks like a genuine cupmark.
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Looking towards Harland Edge.
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Looking south. The small stone nearest the camera is typical of the size of most of the stones in the circle.
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The most prominent stone in the circle, although not the biggest.
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Minninglow seen from Hob Hurst’s House, away to the northeast. Ey up Stu.
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Looking northwest to the snowy edges. G/F is standing on the opposite side of the tomb, giving some idea of how big it is.
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One of the stones forming the edges of the chamber, bootprint for scale.
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Looking southwest across the chamber. On the skyline, under the lighter patch of sky, is Minninglow.
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18 years since we last came, this was probably the first chambered tomb I ever visited.
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Illustration of the chamber from Bateman’s excavation.
Image credit: Llewellyn Jewitt/English Heritage (1861)
At the western end of the rubble bank (see previous photo) are two upright stones, suggestive of the arrangements that form entrances to many of the ring cairns/embanked circles in the Peak District.
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South of the cairnfield and near to the Chatsworth estate wall we came across this long rubble bank. The only NMR record for the vicinity (SK 27836 70362) suggests it is a ruined Bronze Age cairn turned into a series of Medieval sheepfolds.
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What appears to be a kerb around one of the Gibbet Moor cairns.
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Looking north across one of the small cairns on the high part of Gibbet Moor.
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Small cairn on the high part of Gibbet Moor.
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Looking northwest towards the snowy moors above Eyam and Grindleford.
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Looking northeast towards Puddingpie Hill.
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The grass has grown taller than the stones, it took us about 40 minutes of wandering around a small area and very wet feet to find. Well worth it though.
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Sadly there’s not much left of Stone Low, after robbing. The remaining rim curves out from under the lone tree then back towards the other trees on the far right.
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Craig Cnwch is the scarp-faced hill left of centre. The rising ground in the centre is (I think) Crugian Bach, awash with cairns and a stone circle. Seen across Caban-Coch reservoir on late spring day.
Image credit: A. Brookes (31.5.2009)
Low remains of the Iron Age cross dyke to the northwest of the long barrow.
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Crickley Hill across Witcombe Reservoir. Birdlip Camp is on the far right.
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Small standing stone at the grid ref. of The Cobstone, but presumably not “it”, from the misc. post.
Image credit: A. Brookes (21.3.2009)
Funnily there is a standing stone at this grid reference, it’s not very tall though (a couple of feet max.).
I noticed it on the way from Gatcombe Lodge long barrow to The Bulwarks on Minchinhampton and noted the grid reference when I passed, never thinking anything more of it. This was before Chance added it to TMA.
Fairly well-defined earthworks usually hidden by tangled vegetation.
Image credit: A. Brookes (15.3.2009)
Facing the northwestern side of the enclosure from outside.
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Visited 15.3.2009 as a precursor to a walk to the hugely impressive Painswick Beacon hillfort.
A triangular enclosure in a triangular piece of woodland, close to the busy A46 but far enough away for the noise to be left behind. Very overgrown even in spring. The enclosing banks are quite well defined though, under their covering of brambles and ivy.
No-one seems sure of the date, but its proximity to the Iron Age camp at High Brotheridge may be significant.
Small “standing stone” on the cairn.
Image credit: A. Brookes (6.10.2016)