 Looking north over the four remaining standing stones and three fallen stones of Strawberry Lea. |
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This site
is a bit of a mystery as very little seems to have been written about
it and it is not recorded on English Heritage's list of scheduled
monuments. Set on the southern slope of Blacka Hill above a small
stream with Wimble Holme Hill dominating the skyline to the south
it consists of four upright stones set into an arc that would have
formed a circle of about 7-8 metres in diameter plus a further three
fallen stones lying towards what would have been the centre of the
circle. Whether this was ever a true stone circle is debatable, it
has been suggested that the four uprights could have been set into
the outer edge of a barrow or cairn that has been robbed for building
material and that the central stones formed part of a cist although
perhaps they were part of the kerb and have been uprooted and dumped
in the middle in more recent times. The Peak District author John
Barnatt draws parallels with the kerbed cairn on Moscar
Moor but mention should also be made of similarities to the small
stone circle on Bamford Moor which
is roughly the same diameter as Strawberry Lea but with slightly larger
stones.
Suggested Date: Bronze Age |
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