 Gibbet alignment - two small stones in the foreground with the large boulder on the skyline 80 metres NNW |
A track leads across
the northwestern corner of Gibbet Moor and a few metres north of this track are
a couple of small standing stones. Nothing remarkable, until you raise your eyes
to the slight rise in the ground to the northnorthwest where a large boulder stands
80 metres away on the skyline - it then becomes apparent that these three stones
stand in alignment. The two smaller stones measure about half a metre in height
and stand a couple of metres apart and it is possible that another pair of stones
are now missing and together they formed a similar type of monument to the nearby
'four poster' that lies 500 metres away due south.
However it is equally possible that this three stone alignment was deliberate
with either some kind of ritual purpose or simply part of a Bronze
Age field boundary. If we draw an imaginary line through the alignment we
find that it extends northnorthwest just below, and following the line of, Birchen
Edge, across the top of Gardom's Edge, shaving the western edge of Swine Sty and
then onto White Edge passing several contemporary settlement, farming and funerary
areas. Several other stones stand nearby and it has been suggested that these
may also form alignments.
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