10/03. One of the worn carvings located in the copse.....
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A nice enough little stone, about 1m high.
Stands at the head of two valleys in the hills above Whaley Bridge.
It’s a bit of a boggy ‘shortish’ trek over the moorland near Cambret Farm to this circle.....but even after getting the shoes sucked off of my feet it in the mud it was well worth it....(nice one Fitz for digging it out).
Eight low stones surround an egg shaped central stone, the ruined little brother of Glenquickan, which stands over the otherside of Cambret Hill. Excellent views of the surrounding hills.
Have to agree with Moey....the views back down onto the Glenquickan circle are great.
Beware of trying to shorten the journey back to the car park next to the bridge, the ground is very boggy....try it and you might get to sample the delights of trenchfoot.
The cist and its graffiti covered cap stone are worth seeing.....and it’s only a short walk from the circle.
What a top place.....I knew this was gonna be something special, and it didn’t disappoint.
Everything about it was class from the stones to the circles location...smart.
From the standing stone, visible from the track to Cambret Farm, the circle and four poster are 500ft away to the north over the otherside of the drystone wall.
Unsure of access rights...but we managed without any hassles.
The cairn and standing stone at Bagbie are both marked on the 1:50,000 O.S map but not this little four poster that stands next to the cairn.
A great little circle in a bleak moorland area with excellent views.
You can see this stone in a field behind the barn on the way out of Bagbie on the road to Cambert Farm on the way up to the Claughreid circle.....
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.
10/03. The two largest stones of the cairn, there is a 3rd although much smaller.
10/03. The ‘four poster’ and cairn are just over the wall, seen in the middle distance.
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.
10/03. The central stone setting...the stone row can be seen just below the horizon.
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.
