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Barbrook I Stone Circle |
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Barbrook II Stone Circle |
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Barbrook III Stone Circle |
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Barbrook IV Ring Cairn |
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Barbrook Stone row |
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Barbrook V Ring Cairn |
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Big Moor Cup Marked Stone |
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Curbar Edge Ring Cairn Ring Cairn |
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Swine Sty Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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| Along with the stone circles there are over 60 cairns on Big Moor as well as prehistoric field systems. Over Barbrook itself on the oppsite side, at Swine Sty, to the circles is a free standing stone cist, capstone off and hut circles and field systems of a Bronze Age settlement. There are two thin stones on this side of the brook which are often mistaken for standing stones, but they are in fact guide stoops shot up by the army in the 1940's. The whole of the moor is criss-crossed with packhorse tracks. |
Posted by stubob12th September 2002ce Edited 25th February 2007ce |
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People at Curbar in Derbyshireused to set bowls of cream on the hill-tops where they thought that the fairies mostly dwelt. The cream was always drunk, but the fairies were never seen.'Household tales with other traditional remains' p141, by S O Addy (185). |
Posted by Rhiannon24th October 2009ce |
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Posted by stubob 27th October 2012ce |
Barbrook I (Stone Circle) — Images |
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Posted by Emma A22nd December 2011ce |
Barbrook III (Stone Circle) — Fieldnotes |
| Approaching from the south along the Duke's Drive that crosses the moor.....get to the old reservoir keepers house (now RSPB) keep to the vehicle track to the left and through the gate (as it skirts the property) 200m further on keep looking to the right, the circle is between the track and a large grassy/bracken clearing 50m from the track......there's a quite well worn path around the circles circumference. |
Posted by stubob 25th September 2011ce |
Barbrook III (Stone Circle) — Images |
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Posted by stubob 25th September 2011ce |
Barbrook II (Stone Circle) — Images |
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Posted by stubob 25th September 2011ce |
Barbrook III (Stone Circle) — Images |
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Posted by stubob 23rd September 2011ce |
Barbrook II (Stone Circle) — Images |
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Posted by stubob 23rd September 2011ce |
Barbrook I (Stone Circle) — Fieldnotes |
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Ive been to Barbrook 1 three times so I was only coming really to see number 2, but you cant just walk past a stone circle, ignore it completely ?, it just cant be done, not by me anyway. The sun was shining when I arrived, for the first time ever i'm sure, it was early afternoon on the autumn equinox, I wasnt alone on the moor by any stretch, the other people helped to turn it from a sometimes dull and sad place into a sunny and happy and vibrant place, the stones looking as good as ever. There are still pennies in the tops of stones, going towards the cairn through the circle, the stone to the right of the tallest stone has maybe three cupmarks on its upper surface. The cairn fifty yards up the hill is almost but not quite too perfectly restored, from here a path passes two or three other restored cairns, on route to Barbrook 2. |
Posted by postman23rd September 2011ce |
Barbrook I (Stone Circle) — Images |
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