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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.