 A murky day at Froggatt Edge Circle looking west across the Derwent valley |
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This somewhat
damaged
stone circle that stands on Froggatt Edge with views over the Derwent Valley
and of Grindleford is also referred to as Stoke Flat circle. It consists of around
11 typically small Derbyshire stones, most about half a metre tall with only one
that reaches just over a metre in height. The stones seem to form a double ring
with six set into the inner edge of a 2 metre wide rubble bank and a further five
set into the outer edge of the bank, the whole structure being about 14 metres
in diameter. It has been suggested that there were originally 16 to 18 stones
here and that they could have been linked by drystone walling. The circle has
two opposing entrances - the one to the northnortheast could have been blocked
at some time in prehistory while the one to the southsouthwest is flanked by the
tallest stone of the circle. Excavations here sometime before 1939 by the Duke
of Rutland are said to have recovered cremation remains and an urn. Glossary Item: Bronze Age |
