Entrance to the south (the small dark patch lower left of centre) with stones either side and the inner part of the circle to the right.
Looking west from near the south entrance. The curve of the bank is to the top left while the recent entrance from the main path is to the top right.
This can be a difficult
site to find although it is just to the east of the track that leads north across
the moor to the Nine Ladies circle.
Even when you find it, it takes a little while to actually figure out the size
and shape of the bank which is about 15 metres in diameter and about half a metre
high in places with a small gap for an entrance to the south. There are a few
stones dotted around the rim but it's hard to tell which may once have stood and
which were simply boulders used to pack the bank, there is also appears to be
a slight trace of a cairn
near the centre. The poor state of the monument makes it hard to distinguish whether
it was once an embanked
stone circle or a ring
cairn although English Heritage list it as the former.
The entrance that leads from the path through the west side of the bank into the circle is a modern intrusion but is useful for finding the site which like most of the others on this eastern side of the moor has fine views across the Derwent valley and to the hills beyond.
Glossary Item: Bronze Age
The entrance that leads from the path through the west side of the bank into the circle is a modern intrusion but is useful for finding the site which like most of the others on this eastern side of the moor has fine views across the Derwent valley and to the hills beyond.
Glossary Item: Bronze Age