Chris Collyer
Winter solstice moon, taken about half an hour after sunset. Jupiter was visible hanging below the moon but the camera didn’t manage to pick it up.
Sunset from the circle at the winter solstice. Win Hill is the peak on the horizon to the right of centre in front of the bank of cloud.
Plan of the Stonehenge area based on Manley overlaid on satellite image.
Image credit: C. Collyer
Plan of the Stonehenge area based on Manley and others.
Image credit: C. Collyer
Reaves close to Kes Tor pound, part of the North Teign coaxial field system.
View along the outer wall of the pound with the hut upper left of picture.
Picture along the wall of the central hut with the outer pound wall just above.
Cairn at SK21398477. This one is described by EH as flat topped and sub-rectangular, which is just about visible when you see it but there is also supposed to be a narrow low platform 9m long and 2.5m wide extending from the SSW side. I looked but couldn’t find it.
Wide view of the southern circle from the centre of the gap between the circles.
Some of the stones of the north row are tiny, it’s amazing that they haven’t been ‘lost’, buried or re-used elsewhere.
The blocking or terminal stone at the northern end of the row looking south along the double row, the stones are almost invisible in the grass.
If you plan on visiting the carving it might be worth printing this out to orientate yourself with the rocks of the Tor and surrounding landscape.
If you compare this with the diagram the outer circle around the swastika shape is reasonably clear with the gap in the circle to the left – what’s in the centre is a mystery to me though. The smaller ring is just to the upper right, between 1 and 2 on a clock face.
Bit of a mess this one. The bank follows the line of heather from the bottom right to centre left then back to the upper right via the tufts of grass near the top of picture.
Looking southeast over half of the cairn. The large stone lower right is one of the kerb stones with the cairn infill in the centre of picture with a slight depression to the right.
Cairn at SK215847. The large stone is part of a kerb of the cairn which is to the upper right. The white stones look like a makeshift grouse butt.
Cairn within a cairn at SK208848. The small pile of stones in the foreground may be a secondary burial in the bank of what could be a heavily robbed round cairn but in fact looks very much like a damaged ring cairn of about 20 metres in diameter.
Unexcavated cairn at SK214843 looking southwest across Bamford to Shatton Edge / Offerton Moor.
Unexcavated cairn at SK214843. Bamford Edge to the far right, Win Hill in the middle with Lose Hill and ridge leading to Mam Tor in the mist to the left.
Stu has posted a similar picture on the Bamford Moor North page, this is from Great Tor on Bamford Edge looking northwest across Ladybower.
These stones are the cairn an cist marked on Pure Joy’s diagram as “cairn?“, just to the southeast of the circle.
Looking southeast across the circle towards Ladybower. Moscar Moor and Bamford Moor.
Looking northnorthwest over the two standing stones towards the northern of the pair of rock outcrops of Crook Hill.
Stone 70 PRANYM. Cup and ring middle right of stone with groove above left plus several cups.
Stone 94 PRANYM. Cup with three rings and gutter, the carving is fairly worn on this one. Chappell and Brown suggest that parts of the rings may be joined small cups.
Stone 94 PRANYM. This stone is close to a high point on the eastern side of the moor and as you approach it from the south the view begins to open up northward towards Robin Hood’s Bay.
Stone 104 in PRANYM. A large rock with cups and channels down the western side with a line of cups along the top.
Stone 102 PRANYM. About a dozen cups on a well hidden stone that is located just south of the main east-west track across the moor.
Stone 165? in PRANYM. Assuming this is the right stone then it looks like more of its surface has been uncovered since the book was written, there seem to be a few more cups and also three grooves (plough marks?) along the top edge.
Stone 163 PRANYM. Cup with ring and possible gutter plus four other cups.
Crocodile tears. Stone 161 PRANYM. There are several nodules in this rock, here the groove (only the left hand side marked with water) rounds a nodule and returns back down in a hairpin kind of shape. Makes you wonder if the nodule was in place when the stone was carved and if so was it removed to be kept as a ritual object?
Stone 161 PRANYM. This is the northern end of the rock, a groove continues along it’s length and ends with a cup and a pair of joined rings.