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Between the Googleby Stone and the Thunder Stone are several other stones, Aspers Field Stone can be seen in the fields from the Googleby Stone, what would have been the top of the stone if it was upright has several cup markings and what could be a ring.

At NY555153 are 2 other fallen stones in the wall side.
See Fitzcoraldos pics under the Hill of Skulls/Skellaw

The half circle of Iron Hill North has one stone of limestone amongst the Shap granite, this also occurs at other sites nearby such as Gunnerkeld and Gamelands.

There is a sandstone boulder in Iron Hill South that has 4 or 5 cupmarks on the top.

Destroyed when the area was enclosed. Only the outlier ’ King Harry’s Stone ’ remains ( 5ft high and perhaps 4ft wide ), the stone was an outlier of what was a large circle of over 80 stones.

No path as such...
but hey.

Make it part of your explorations of the ruined Broomrigg complexes.

With Long Meg further to the south, the henges at Penrith even further, Grey Yauds stands in a long line of big circles and henges.

The Broomrigg plantation is definitely worth a sniff around, OK so most of it is lost and ruined and in a heavily planted forest. But in a way it adds to the atmosphere, makes up a little for the lost views.

There are the remains of a large circle, 4 stones in a arc made of red sandstone. A low bank of a henge, and kerb and cairn circles.

They can take some finding, but you can make it a start to the journey out to see King Harry’s Stone over the fields at Grey Yauds.

Always a highlight of a visit to the Shap area...The size and shape of the stones are just perfect. The limestone pavement you cross to get to the stones has some great formations in it, as it’s weathered thru the years.
Make sure you see this circle.

Keep an eye out for Ironman’s Oddendale Cairn I on the way up to the circle.

Perhaps a mile further along the limestone pavement is a ruined circle, it stands on a small mound and although it is ruined its circle of low jagged stones are still quite impressive. And it is a pleasant walk here from the double circle.

If you follow Burl’s directions and drive up Mountain Road to the two pillars, the stones of the Druid’s Circle can just be made out on the horizon.

I have been told the Hole Stone has been moved from it’s original position and is now either used as..... A gatepost in one of the field walls near Holestone Farm or Holestone Cottage. Used in the construction of a  farm building or just plain (h)ol(e)d lost.

A huge millstone grit block, that is said to grant wishes if you walk around it 3 times widdershins and then stand on top. Another version saves you walking round it, just sit on it and wish.

Mentioned in several ley hunters guides (if you go for that sorta thing) as the start/end of one of the Arbor Low ley lines.

Cuckoo Stone is thought to have originated from cock crow stone, this is another Derbyshire stone that is said to move around at dawn.
I have never been able to make my mind up about this stone, whether it is natural or erected. It was it’s closeness to the lost Seven Brideron circle that got me thinking.

With J. Barnatt, Hayman Rooke and Samuel Pegge all suggesting that the Seven Brideron stone circle stood a short distance away to the NE on Matlock Moor it does seem plausible that this stone played a part in the ancient landscape.

The stone has been a long recognised feature of the area with a dale, a lane, a farm, a wood and a quarry all named after it....it also features on Matlock Golf Club’s badge.
It stands on the 11th fairway at Matlock golf club, about 20yds from the path that cuts across it.

Round Low is a bit tired looking and doesn’t really stand out amongst all the old lead workings it lies in. Be careful if you leave the path here or on Carsington Pastures some of the old shafts are only covered with wooden boards and grass.
The Hopton Works spoil the view to Harboro Rocks which, in itself, is well worth a sniff around.

This ring cairn is quite near to the road but is still tricky to find. A bit more visible(??) than the Birchen Edge South ring cairn, but also not very impressive.
At around 20x20m the 2m wide banking is just about covered by peat, grass and heather.
A cairn is built on to the NE corner of the bank (.....no really).
Excellent views across Ramsley and Big Moors. Nelson’s ships on Birchen Edge itself are visible quarter of a mile away across the moor, to the South(ish).

This is a probable ring cairn, it is very irregular in shape and it becomes hard to follow the line of the bank in the South. It lies next to a cairn field and old field systems.
The site is tricky to find as the overgrown bank is very low and narrow.

Always go and find someone from the farm before visiting....

Tiny hillfort (because of it’s size it is thought to be more of a refuge) enclosing only 3 quarters of an acre. Good bank, ditch and counterscarp. A small section is missing in the SE. Rooke described an entrance visible in the SE in the 18th Century, but there are no traces today.

If you follow the ‘Limestone Way’ around the farm. There looks to be the remains of what might’ve been an outer bank. Over 2m high in places.

Gib Hill is thought to have been built in two stages, an early Bronze Age round barrow sits on top of a neolithic oval barrow. Inside the fence that surrounds the ‘hill’ traces of a ditch can be made out, dug to form the oval barrow.

There are 4 long stones (around 4ft ) that lay round the base of the round barrow that Barnatt suggests to be gateposts, quarried from Arbor Low II.

The stone visible on top of the mound is the capstone to a Bronze Age cist; returned to Gib Hill after serving time as a garden ornament at Bateman’s house. When first returned the cist stood proud of the mound, but vandalism to it, soon saw the cist reburied.

Lean Low is very similar to Aleck Low in being heavily cratered. But the barrow itself is not the reason to come up here, the view across the A515 to Gib Hill and Arbor Low is worth the short steep climb.

I’m lucky enough to be able to say Arbor Low is one of my local sites.

There used to be a holed stone at Arbor Low, an 8ft long thin stone with a perferct largish circle through the middle. The first mention of it I can find is when in the 1920’s it was used as a threshold between 2 gateposts. At the start of the 1930’s when access was improved to the henge the stone was put upright and used as a gatepost. The hole was then at ground level.

Between then and the mid 90’s the stone moved around wall sides near the farm until vanishing sometime in the last 10-12yrs.

Some old guys in the local one night told me that the stone is a garden ornament somewhere around Bakewell........but then,that could just be old guys in the local.....

Pea Low is one of the Peaks best preserved barrows, and it is enormous around 45mx40m and still over 3m high.
It is thought it may contain chambers but none have been found, Bateman and Carrington half heartedly excavated here several times in the 1840’s. The outcome of their work showed that the barrow had been re-used much later for Roman burials.

The views from the barrow are excellent through 360’.

Theres a small car park in Alstonefield, you can see Pea Low on a nearby hill only a short walk away.

On a large boulder just below the summit of Ladybower Tor are two very worn carvings. One is a double ringed oval the other a swastika in a 30cm ring ( the swastika is about half the size ).

I’ve never managed to get a photo worth posting because they are both so worn; Which also makes them a bit of a pain to find.

The Northern most, known rock art in The Peak.

By the turn off for Tissington on the A515 Buxton – Ashbourne road.

Boars Low is a bit battered from when it was tree covered, but is still quite impressive in its height. It was dug in the 1840’s when a human cremation was found.

The limestone knoll of Wigber Low has a long rich history. Stretching back to the Neolithic where it appears the knoll was used as a camp that saw return visits....
Flint flakes and tools along with several hand axes and parts of others.
The axes found were from three sources; Graig Lwyd in N. Wales, Langdale Pikes Cumbria and Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire.

The next phase saw the construction of an excarnation platform in the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age.
Followed sometime later by the cairn visible today.

Then in the 7th Century, several high status burials were placed within the cairn; spears, knives and brooches accompanying them.

Excellent long range views...the domed hills of Wolfscote, Narrowdale and Gratton clearly visible to the NW.
While the familiar sight of Minninglow Hill and the Green Low ridge occupy the N/NE horizon.

I returned to Ringham Low to look again for the exposed chambers, hoping that the rotting animal bodies had gone.
The farmer was most dis-chuffed to find me looking for them, the remains of the Low are next to a path, but he doesn’t allow visitors. In fact from what I could gather he backed filled the chambers to “keep nobbers like me well away”