stubob

I’ve never found this ring cairn, J.Barnatt mentions it in his 1990 book but doesn’t give any idea, apart from the grid ref, to it’s location. Okay the grid ref. should be enough but in this case it ain’t.
I’ve scoured the area a few times and scanned it again with a guy who had scoured it a few times as well......phew. Still nowt.

JB reckons there’s a rubble/stone bank 1-2m wide with a diameter of 7x5m, with a stone in the NE....entrance in the South, a boulder free interior.

Good Luck.

What can you say.....a corker...

The Eastern circle is around a 100ft away and is a smaller grass/bracken bump( depending on time of year) badly ruined by a shooting butt. Entrance? can just be made out.

The largest of the two circles, overgrown with heather with maybe one very small stone remaining (covered in heather) in the SE (ish). When viewed from Wet Withens, the 2 circles mark the points on the horizon for the Mid-Winter full moon set and it’s maximum (the eastern circle). Although badly overgrown this and the smaller eastern circle have some of the best views of all the Peak District sites.

No path to the stone but it’s easy enough to find once you see the dry stone wall. Christianised in medieval times when it was used as a boundary marker.
To say how tricky the large circle of Offerton Moor Westcan be to find when you’re right next to it......it’s quite easy to pick out over the wooded valley.

A.K.A Abney I

Easily found if approached from Abney, parking a car there is not easy though. Head for the open moorland, the paths by the ’ welcome to Abney’ sign. At the path crossroads head straight on thru the heather. The 2 remaining stones are in the grass clearing, faint traces of a bank can be made out in places. Excellent Views to Wet Withens on Eyam Moor and the hillfort at Carl Wark.

Confusing as nothing really stands out in the heather, some form of enclosure once thought to be a stone circle.
The ‘aerial maps’ at multimap are a big help in finding the right area to hunt in.

Discovered in 1985 after the moors had been burnt back, these 3 standing stones are thought to be the remains of a 4 poster although no trace of a 4th stone has been found. Well hidden in the grass and heather.

Keep on the path, passed ‘Park Gate Circle’ for a few hundred yards, turn right onto the moors when you’re in line with the firebreak, over in the Bunkers Hill Wood plantation. The ring/robbed cairn is found in the slight dip.

May ‘03

When I first posted this I thought it was Beeley Warren NW, having since found the proper NW........ this isn’t it.
It has a definite robbed cairn look to it, a ring of rubble around a disturbed mound.
Not far from Beeley NW, in the dip of the two low ridges that cross the moor.

The ring cairn is disected by a number of old packhorse routes and only a section of the bank and 4-5 kerbstones remain in the SE sector of the monument.
Nothing exciting but the settlement at Swine Sty is only a coupla hundred metres or so away.

Head down the track towards ‘Park Gate’ after a few 100yards there is the large cairn of Beeley Warren to the right, the Central Circle is 50m further on.
Unsure of access, but it’s worth seeing.

Near Hathersage. Amazing hill fort on the moors very easy to get to too.
Two sides of the fort have a steep slope for defence the 3rd has a massive drystone wall, made from gritstone boulders. The site is approx 2 acres in size.
The rock outcrop at ‘Higgar Tor’ is definitely worth a scramble round too, this was ‘Wet Withens’ main alignment the Midsummer Sunrise.

The sad bump at Bee Low is all that remains of a Late Neolithic round cairn in use for over 3 centuries.
No path across the field to the plantation where the cairn is located.....but when you get to the gate leading into the plantation, the sign don’t read like you’re unwelcome.

Marked as ‘enclosure’ on the O.S Map...where the footpath is shown as passing through the cairn...not quite the same on the ground though the cairn is to the left of the ‘main’route up onto Gardom’s.

One of the Peaks largest circles.....
Visit before the grass gets going and it’s hard to find a better site in Derbyshire.

The settlement and field systems at Swine Sty cover a considerable area of Big Moor western side and are amongst the U.K’s best preserved, much of them being overgrown although still visible. Amongst the field boundaries around seven building platforms or rings have been identified, the clearest of them is actually below the boulder escarpment of Swine Sty difficult to find at the best of times in recent years the site is being encroached upon by the thick bracken that covers a large part of this lower shelf.
The site rewards a bit of exploring and with the moor being Open Access it’s a shame not to.