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It’s pretty straight forward finding the stones but some wall and barbed wire jumping is required.
The four stones, three still upright, form a diamond....Hard to say why, but it’s a bit of a dull lifeless place.

An uninspiring stone but close to the road so worth a sniff.

Ask at the farm before wondering about in the fields.
Me and Fitz had real problems finding the rock art at Torrs Farm and Number 3 was the only one we came across....you’ll need something better than the 1:50,000 scale map we had I reckon.

This is an excellent circle in a great setting....with its low circle of stones and fat central stone the site looks a sorta of a beefed up Bullstones/Cleulow Cross. It’s definitely one to track down.

Another thing the two sites share are the ‘caps’ growing up through the moorland grass this time of year.....an added bonus.

Although it’s more than likely natural...a bloke named Sainter noted the stone as a Dolmen in the 1800’s..

The Bawd Stone is in a great location between the gritstone outcrops of Hen Cloud and the Roaches....Ramishaw Rocks are visible in the distance too....

Worth a look...

The reason folk come up to Grin Low today is to admire the view from the victorian thing called Soloman’s Temple.....a little stone tower built onto the round barrows top.....
Long range views over the White Peak and to another 17 Bronze Age barrows.

Allegedly there were earthworks around Grin Low but the old lime workings have made the hill a grassy looking lunar landscape....making it impossible to pick out anything older than the workings.

Bit of a strange one this..
A glacial erratic that has supposedly been shaped on a coupla sides to square the eastern face off.....can’t say I really get it.

Only just in a field, hiding behind the wall on the south side of the road as you pass through the little village of Ginclough.

Green Low has been about a bit....one time thought of as a stone circle...then robbed cairn..followed by ring cairn and marked on the map as a cairn circle...

The NMR seems to go with ring cairn...and if it is it’s easily Derbyshire’s best...a well defined grasscovered rubble ring approx 22x20m with a bank 50cm high...a smaller rubble ring is visible in the northern half of the cairn.

Located a few KM west of Mam Tor the ring cairn is unmissable as you walk along the path, starting at SK091 824....800m along.

250m east is a smaller cairn circle 6x8m in diameter and a bit tired looking.

Another long barrow along the lines of The Tong. From what I can find out it’s not for certain that this knobbly bit of land, 32x17m is really a long barrow....
Ok so it’s orientated E-W.. but that don’t necessarily make it so.

In the field to the right the ‘long barrow’ is a smart little round barrow...well...it makes it that the journey wasn’t a complete waste of time.

The fact that the site was only rediscovered by Barnatt in the late 1980’s.....says so much about The Tong.....a West Kennet it certainly ain’t...
It’s hard to say how big the rough ground that’s supposed to be the barrow is....

The rough looking barrow is visible from the road to Wheston 2km outta Peak Forest....it’s a 150m walk if you wanna get up close and personal.

Classed as a ‘Platformed Bowl Barrow’ rather than a ‘Platform Cairn’.
Perched on the quarry cliff tops with corkin’ views all round.
The barrow is in excellent nick compared to the others close by....stands about 3m high...platform around 25x26m in diameter with the barrow about 19x15m. A bit of damage to the northern side where a stone wall looked to have crossed the platform.

A footpath leads to the top of the hill starting at Arm Lees Farm (SK262553) then on to Moor Edge Farm. From here follow the path above the quarries.
A bit of a long way round but the quarries and dis-used mine shafts on the moor make a shorter route impossible.

This standing stone is about 100m from the Ash Cabin circle, to the NNE.

Only the top of the broad stone manages to make it above the height of the heather.

Finding the remains of the fort on the ground is a little bit tricky....altho’ the bracken is still in full flow so it might be hiding features.

The site is ideally situated on a steep rocky sided spur overlooking the Rivelin down towards sheffield.

4 cups in a line across the highest edge of a rock. 2 of the cups looked to be natural tho’.

This is a massive boulder built into a drystone wall. There are between 30-40 cup marks on it. The better preserved cups are on the top of the boulder and after Fitz had moved a few coping stones around he found the craziest looking cup I’ve ever seen.....it seemed to stand proud of the rock a bit like a boil....

The stone is hard to miss, built into the wall on the west side of Black Hill Road.

This is kinda in the same field as the ‘Cup, Ring & Groove’ rock, only lower down the slope and near to the foundations of an old drystone wall.....

The last stone me and Fitz took in for the day and what a beaut... cups and grooves on one face and a group of 10 or so cups on one of the rocks ‘shoulders’.

In a field just off the main track (Black Hill Road) that goes over the moor from Skyreholme to the Stump Cross Caverns.....

There could be up to 13 or so cups on the top face of the rock although some are quite worn....there are a coupla nicely defined ones tho’.

Looking for the rock art up at Skyreholme was Fitzcolrado’s idea, I don’t think either of us had seen pictures of what we could expect up here.... And this stone paid off and made the longer than necessary uphill walk well worth it.....
One face of the boulder is heavily covered in cups and there’s a coupla grooves and worn rings thrown in for good measure...there are cup marks all over the boulder although not as concentrated...
Excellent.

The henge was still in a heavy mist when me and Fitz arrived so we didn’t get to see the surrounding landscape......pity, but hey...

The place is tiny (compared to other henges I’ve seen) and the bank is very low...the entrance is damaged and there’s a small quarry hole that destroys some of the banking.....Overall at top site tho’....

I have to agree with Moth......while up at the circle Fitz and me had the same kinda thought...that the biggest stone in the circle could be naturally sited

This is a cracking little circle with views to match.... Even tho’ some of the stones struggle to reach above the height of the grass and heather the circle is still pretty well defined.

Visit on a clear day and enjoy........

There is a very worn cup and ring carving on a large boulder between the Stride and Nine Stone Close.....there are several other possible cup marks on the upper surface of the rock. The rock has several plough markings on it suggesting it has been moved to its present position...and it lays next to the wall.

As you climb the stile to go to the stone circle......in front of you are 3 large trees.....one next to the stone circle...one next to the stile on the way to the Stride......in between these is another tree that stands on the north-south running drystone wall.....the carved rock is underneath this tree.

I reckon this must be the most perfectly sited work of rock art in England....the view along the valley to the Langdale Pikes is outrageous.

After I thought I saw a map on The Badger Stone on Ilkley Moor I was well primed to see Ironmans map laid out on the boulder at Copt Howe.....it stands up to it well enough.....although the people I went up there with worked out another map using the heavily pecked area as the scree slopes on the Pike o’ Sickle.....it has to be said the rest of the map was rather sketchy compared to Ironmans.

A wonderful place............

On a small gritstone block directly under a Silver Birch is a worn carving consisting of 2 cups each with a worn outer ring. The rings seem to overlap slightly.
It’s a bit tricky to find......from the ‘standing stone’ head due east for 0.25miles, go through the trees and over the ruined drystone wall. You should end up in a wide peat gulley.....the carving is on the western side of this gulley.

About 80m east of Robin Hood’s Pricking Rods is a smallish gritstone slab with 10-11 cup marks on it’s upper surface. It lies on the bank of a small spring.

A smart stone but because it is so worn... a diagram of what is actually on the stone is well handy to fully appreciate it.

About 100yds south of the Bullstones and over the field wall is another upright stone, I can find no details or records of the stone, it just looked a tad suspicious being so close to the Bullstones.

Not having read anything about Roughting Linn, I had no idea the ditches and banks were earthworks as I fought my way thru’ the bracken to the rock. It was also a bright sunny day so a lot of the smaller carvings were hard to pick out.
Again I didn’t have much time here and it was shortened by a gang of oap’s dragging me back thru’ the gate to join ‘em in their picnic.

A nice enough little stone.......handily just over a metal gate so access is pretty straightforward.

I didn’t have a lot of time here so I spent it looking for the large slab with huge cup and ring marks.....a stunning stone.(NU02158 28230)

There are quite a few other worn carvings on the stones above the first small quarry you come to when you enter the moor by the path near the cattle grid. The main slab is beyond these near the ‘edge’.

I’m not an expert in rock art matters.....
But...as you leave the ‘main panel’ and head uphill toward the trig point, not heading for the stile though, go to its left. Just before the fence is a cup marked stone with fresh looking peck-marks.

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The first time I saw pictures of the Ketley Crags shelter I knew I had to see it... the pictures had been burning in my mind.....it really is just one of those places you gotta see.....it wont disappoint.

I spent what seemed like an age looking through the bracken and rocks for the rock shelter......it musta been the last rock I went to.
It’s a real jaw-dropper.......it’d be hard to top this place in my opinion.

There’s also plenty to see on your way over Chatton.

Chris’s non-exact directions are about right. Only if you go in summer the stone is well hidden in high bracken and not visible from the path.

Back to these carvings for the 2nd time this week, this time with Fitzcolrado. And true to form he found the carvings to the south of the main group mentioned by Stan Beckensall and Chris Collyer. Only he found it to the NE of the group, on the larger section of the outcrop.

I reckon Stan’s picture shows whats up on the Hanging Stones, but doesn’t show it where it really is on the ground.

Great looking stone.....
Now totally f***ed up by an arse with a can of red paint.

Perhaps 20m NNW of the Stanage Cairn is a rock with a possible 10 cup marks on it’s top, 5 of them are hidden under a carpet of heather.

There is a stone close-by that also has ‘hollowed’ marks but these are thought to be natural. Because of this second stone Barnatt and Chums are still debating whether the 10 cup marks are natural or not.

Near the centre of the barrow is a well defined cup mark on a stone block. The stone is just out of the loose rocks of the cairn close to what could be the remains of a cist.

These are excellent carvings but are in a pretty bad place to be on the moor.
It would bea good idea to get a copy of the diagram posted on this page or something similar, there is quite alot of recent graffiti scratched all over the shop and it gets a bit tricky to see what’s what. Unbelievable really when you think they’re in a quarry full of shag rocks to piss on.

I have to agree that it’s a disappointing site, even more so after searching through the bracken.

Further to Chris’ field note the NMR has a stone with 5 cup marks down at SE1299 4638; the pointed stone is quite small and the cups are worn.

It was good to hear that Chris Collyer had a hard time finding the stones first time out......after finding only 1 of the larger carved stones I feel less of a nubber for it.
In the entrance to the D-shaped part of the enclosure on the right-hand side of the wall is a small single cup marked(?) slab.

West of the Idol Stone and below Green Crag is an enclosure which according to the NMR has the remains of rubble banks, cairns, an upright stone and 7 carved rocks.
But seen as the place was snided with flying ants I didn’t get much of a look around the place.
The carved stone in my pic is right next to the path about halfway up the slope.

Rock art in Sheffield?

A large carved sandstone slab with 3 ovals surrounding several cup marks. The ovals have been cut so deep one of the platforms with the cup marks on stands proud of the stone. Several ‘gutters’ are also carved which just about surround the whole of the other carvings. A corker!

I reckon the best place to start is on Whirlowdale Road, near to the junction with Whirlowdale Crescent. Take the path on the corner and follow it thru’ the woods along the line of the gardens that back onto the wood. The first stream you come to (dry in summer) head off left into the trees for about 70m, the stone is in a clearing and is clearly visible.

Just down the road from Longside Moor on Holy Moor is an excellent carved rock. Recently discovered amongst the stones of a large medieval field clearance, it has about 46 cup marks and a worn ring carving.
It’s not known where the stone originally came from.

Follow the path that starts from SK320691 and at the second field along head diagonally left to a stile. The stone is in the first pile of clearance stones over the stile.

About 1km NNW of the Swine Sty enclosure is a disturbed cairn, resting on top of the biggest stone in the cairn is a small cup marked slab.

I can’t really think of decent directions to the cairn as it stands all by itself almost lost in the heather and bracken in the middle of Big Moor.

You know it’s time to give it a rest when you start looking for pit alignments in the summer grass and bracken.

100m ENE of the standing stone there’s a 300m run (east-west) of square pits dating to the Bronze/Iron Age. Clay lined they would have at one time been capable of holding water.(In fact they still are, some of the less visible ones at the far eastern end are only visible in winter as they still fill up with water).

Oh yes indeedy......

A truly awe-inspiring site. Battered it may be (or Bull Ringed as we say in Derbyshire)... but like wow!

“If you go down to the woods today.......”

An excellent site, I was a touch worried about the trees before arriving....but there was no need.
After using the ditch bottom to walk round the henge I was surprised to see just how well defined the henge actually is........

I was lucky enough to have Fitzcoraldo show me the Upleatham barrow and the cup marked kerb stones.
Being used to Derbyshire barrows I thought Upleatham was quite impressive, although it’s tree covered it’s still a good height.
But the highlight without doubt was the cup marked stones. I’ve got to admit it was a real buzz uncovering the heavily marked stone.
The views through the breaks in the trees are excellent; it’s great to see the contrast of Roseberry Topping and Eston Nab alongside the industrial coastline to the north.
Cheers Fitz.

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.

The entrance to the north was built and then blocked by a cairn. It’s thought the entrance may have been ‘symbollic’ in some kinda way.
There are traces of the wall/kerb left across this entrance.
The trees mean you have to leave the circle and move to the edge to get the best view... NW to Win Hill and the hills of the Derwent Vally beyond.