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This long barrow is approx. 40m long, it lies East/West with a round barrow on it’s Eastern end.
Longstone Moor itself is being quarried heavily, and the barrow lays in a field quite close to some old workings.
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2006.
“close to some old workings” If only!
The White Rake is once again being worked...In fact the Peak Park Authority have signed much of Longstone Edge and the moor over to the quarry companies....What is one of the Peak’s most prominent limestone hills is, over the next few years, going to invert itself.

There are 2 standing stones here located on the northern edge of a cairnfield; 1 stands about a metre in height the other, less than 1m away, about half this height. They both look to be kerbed. Another upright slab is also visible 30m away to the west and although probably natural the NMR says that it is likely to have formed a prominent feature of the cairnfield.

A square hill fort that was discovered in the late 1980’s. It is roughly 10 acres in size, protected on the North and South by natural slopes, a low banking can be seen on part of the North side. The Eastern Bank is very low with a wall running along it’s top. The Western bank also has a wall, but the banking here is more prominent.
Not a great deal to see, but Lathkil dale which the fort overlooks is well worth a walk along.

This is a tiny hillfort above Bakewell. Protected on two sides by steep natural slopes and a curved bank and ditch; enclosing an area of approximately 1.5 acres.

Excavations here unearthed several cup and ring marked boulders. These boulders pre-date the fort, one of them was used in the construction of the rampart. The stones are now in the Sheffield museum.

Room to park on the roadside above Ball Cross Farm.
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The nearby ‘Moatless Plantation’ was a meeting point (moot). There is an earthwork, of unknown date, surrounding the plantation

SK194633 – Bateman’s Tomb

Not really an antiquity as such, but Thomas Bateman dug over 200 barrows in the Peak District, sometimes up to 6 a day. He wrote two books on his works, ‘Vestiges of the Antiquities of Debyshire’ in 1848, followed in 1861 with ‘Ten Years Digging....’.

Some of his finds are displayed in the Sheffield and Buxton museums.

Inside the chapel the tomb lays behind, there used to be a carved marble memorial to Thomas Bateman....it is Now in Sheffield Museum. A strange thing to do with the grave and chapel still there.....I can imagine Batemans wry grin at the thought of it..

This is a corker.....
Down on the SMR as a barrow.....but it does look more like a stone/kerb circle with a central stone. Easy parking at the road junction, by the public footpath that leads below the stones, at SK954679.
Views to the North and East are very impressive.

We bumped into a guy who lived on Cromlech Road who showed us the chamber.. he said something about cromlechs and dolmens and one of them has a ring of timbers around, thats how to tell the difference? something like that....

He had some ace pictures of down the Orme mine before you had to pay to go in.
Crazy guy whose breath smelt of windolene.......

This Iron Age hill fort isn’t far from the Bull Ring in DoveHoles and it’s definitely worth seeing.
After passing DoveHoles Railway Station there’s a single track turn on the left. After a couple of miles there’s a  tall Chapel-en-le-Frith Parish sign, and room for a car. From here it’s a short steep climb up to the fort.
The ramparts and ditch are very impressive and the views are unbelievable. An Iron Age fort it underwent several changes to the fortifications and the stonework in the ramparts is still visible in parts. What a place....

This stone circle is mentioned on the 1998 1:25000 O.S map for Snowdon, but we had real diffuculty in finding it. Is it ruined? There are a lot of stones on the ground where the map says the circle is...

On the 18th September, a stone in the NW(ish) of the circle was on the floor next to it’s socket, 2 other stones were very close to ending up the same way.

I had one of those moments here. Stood in the long spiky grass next to the pile of stones, I saw what I reckoned was the remains of the chamber. But then I talked myself out of it, and didn’t take a pic. Found out later they are! Dog.

Just along the track from Maen-y-Bard, like Ironman says walk along the roman road from the YHA. Gives you a real feel for the place.

Excellent 5 stone ring, I’m speechless, I don’t know what too say....excellent.

The whole area around the satellite station is covered in these mounds, various sizes and states.

I have been told this stone is everything from fallen, moved to a hedge, used a gatepost and only a stump remains. I recently found a photo of the stone from 1919 so its time to search the hedgerows.

The earthwork is getting on for a mile long running roughly East/West, burials have only been found on the circle side.

Although quite large 27m across it’s very hard to find the rubble ring of this robbed cairn...lost amongst the heather in summer.

An earthwork of an unknown date.
The section of the dyke sandwiched between the roads is the most impressive part.
There is an area called Smallfield 200m or so Southeast; a Bronze age/Romano-British Field system.
The whole has been badly disturbed by roads and walls, there is a rubble ring of a possible robbed cairn (Bar Dyke Ring )but it’s hard to pick out amongst the heather and a fence and track cut through it.
Worth a look if your between Ash Cabin and the circle at Ewden Beck.

A unique site in the Peak, the bank is over 200m long with bulges at the northern and southern end. These bulges look like barrows added to each end but are just part of the bank.
On average the bank is about 1.5m high but is higher and wider to the north.

Pity about the drystone wall that runs its length and the small silage tank on the southern bulge. But it’s still well worth checking out.......

Remains of a chambered cairn, in one of the hollows in the dug out top are 2 large stones, not being an expert, I don’t know if they the remains of the chamber or not. The cairn was built over a standing stone, this stone is supposed to be visible, again is this something to do with the larege stones on the top?

Views over the fields to Win and Lose Hill.

The moor is around 60 hectares and contains 70 or so cairns mainly from the early bronze age. The most notable are all visble from the paths on the moor.
The Heathcotes (father & son) excavated most of the cairns and circles on the moor. They also tidied (?) some of the ones they dug, not necessarily to their original form.

Around 400 or so yards to the NE, tall stone thought in the early 20Century to mark the star Capella( rising ) although the stone isn’t visible from the circle

The Original earthwork at Old Sarum probably dates back to the Iron Age but may be earlier, although it was altered over the centuries. The mound in the centre of the earthworks was built in Norman times. The remains of Norman buildings can be seen as well as the foundations of the original Cathedral, abandoned in the 1400’s when the town moved to New Sarum, Salisbury.

Near Longnor. A long angular earthwork and barrow, the barrow is around 12x10m and about 1.5m high, with good sections of limestone kerbing.

The angular earthwork, shown on the O.S map, and thought by Bateman to be related to the barrow; as either protection or a running/chariot track for Bronze Age folk.....is in fact part of the medieval earthworks that surrounded the ‘Grange’ of Cronkston and Hurdlow Town.

What the....?

7.00am on a  Monday, and you can have the place to yourself. After the hoardes of folk up there on Saturday afternoon it was a completely different place. And it gives you time to clear up the tea-candles.

‘Trevorgans Menhir’, proper. 8 ft tall.

If you approach the circle from the farm, at the point where the sign says ’ no cars beyond here ’ a large pointed stone can be seen built into the hedge, right by the pull-in.
Further round the lane on the driveway to the last house there is a small stone slab with a spiral carving it’s probably not that old, but hey it’s next to the path.

Iron Age hillfort next to the coastal path, entrance and some walls and ditches remain. Great views toward Lands End.

Easily seen from the road, access through the farm gate.

Visited in August and the place was full of spiders...Big Spiders...and big balls of web hung off the ceiling...spooky.

Like Ironman says, ‘a travesty’. Still a must see though. What it must have looked like complete with the stone avenues through Shap...

Spent ages on hands and knees looking for the carvings. Never found them. An impressive little circle tho’.

Luckily for us the farmer was around when we visited, more than happy for us to go wondering thru his fields. He gets lots of visits and let us park up in his yard.
The noise from the M6 does little to detract from an amazing site. Alot of the outer ring has gone or fallen, but the 2 large stones that mark the entrance still stand.

Another Cumbrian site chopped in half for the sake of a few feet...
There is a path to this circle altho’ very overgrown (July). I could only count 5 stones, in the remaining arc but it’s still well worth a visit.

Follow the path ‘marked to the stone circle’ SK242963( space for a few cars ). An enormous earthwork stretches for about a mile onto the skyline. It follows roughly the line of the stone wall that you see on your left. A little further on the path forks, take the right one and look for a wooden post in the undergrowth on your right, circle is here. The local parish council try to keep the site from becoming too overgrown.

Park at the car park at Redmires Plantation SK269858. From here follow the path for about 300m up the bank thru’ the trees onto the moor, then turn off away from the wall on your left. Bash thru’ the heather for 100m or so and have a good look round, it’s small and tricky to spot. Probably best seen in winter.

Located half a mile or so from Hob Hurst’s House along Harland Edge..Look for the two large boulders outcrops visible from some distance around halfway along the edge, the cairn is just below these.

This is an interesting cairn. Oval shaped the cairn has a kerbed banana shaped passage with portal stones at each end, two remain upright.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the two outcrops were a factor in the siting of the cairn they are such a prominent feature of Harland Edge.
Excellent views south over the remaining band of the Eastern Moors and into the White Peak.

Now the area is under “Right to Roam” it’s well worth the short walk along the edge, among the old quarries, to visit the cairn.

This cup marked stone sticks out of a robbed cairn, sections of the rubble ring can still be seen.

Built into a wall on the side of the road...I drove passed this 3 times looking for it!?

A massive enclosure wall 1.5m high in places with around 7 entrances, along its 500m length. It was called ‘Megs Walls’ when first discovered after moorland fires, around 60 years ago.

The enclosure has been dated to the neolithic and was later overlaid with bronze and iron age cairns, boundaries and field systems.

After many years of excavation the site is now thought of as a neolithic trade centre. And the enclosure was not built for either occupational or defensive purposes. Stone axes and numerous flint tools have been found, the flint is thought to be from the Yorks and Lincs Wolds.

J.Barnatt also suggests the site could have been used for excarnation of the dead and ritual feasting, with the site being used seasonly.

There’s a handy map of what’s where on Gardoms Edge on the website.(see links)
Free parking in public car park next to Robin Hood public house.

Gardom’s Edge is named after Thomas Gardom a mill owner from Calver.

From the ‘Rock Art Boulder’ follow the enclosure wall for a short way the stone can easily be seen in the trees. Great weathering on its top.

The Three Men are 18th century additions to a Neolithic oval barrow, the outer rim still quite visible. This is the only burial found within the Meg’s Walls enclosure.
The 3 cairns are said to commemorate 3 shepherds who died on the moor or, and the more believable story, 3 drunken priests returning from a funeral.

About twenty yards East of the enclosure wall lies this fibreglass replica of a boulder. The original has been reburied. Hmmm.

Maen Pres..The Smooth Stone
An impressive tall stone near Bodewryd, in a field full of dodgy sheep.

A real strange looking stone, small compared to Angleseys other standing stones. It stands on top of a steep roadside verge behind a hedge and can be tricky to spot........worth hunting out.

Large stone easily spotted from the B5109 Pentreath-Llangefni road.

A little way along the A5025 out of Menai Bridge. Turn right at the first crossroads, parking tho’ is impossible on the road.

The remaining bank and ditch of a henge, a farm has been built on the rest....monstrous views into Snowdonia