Bradley Tor

Also known as:
Bradley Rocks
Nearest town:
Bakewell (6km NNW)
OS reference:
SK223621
OS sheet:
119
Latitude:
53° 9' 18.85 N
Longitude:
1° 39' 59.33 W
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Images

Image of Bradley Tor (Rocking Stone) by Rhiannon

From Hayman Rooke’s article “An account of some Druidical Remains on Stanton and Hartle Moor in the Peak, Derbyshire.”

Image credit: Archaeologia v6, 1782.
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Mar 6, 2013
Image of Bradley Tor (Rocking Stone) by megadread

Cup mark. ?
Not on the rocking stone but lower down on the other end of the tor.

Image credit: megadread
megadread
megadread Dec 16, 2009

Articles

Bradley Tor

megadread
megadread Jul 4, 2010

Btw, Bateman was somehow mistaken, the passage beneath the rocking stone is nowhere near big enough to pass animals through, yeah at the front of the stone there’s a rather large opening but it narrows down to almost nothing at the back, no way could you safely pass a baby through unless you had octopuss arms and a couldn’t care less attitude to your young uns.
Ok prod a piglet with a pointy stick and it would make it through i admit but it’s not practical to do so on any scale.
My Jack Russel could do it at a squeeze if i stood the other side with a nice bit of meat to temp her.
: )

Bradley Tor

megadread
megadread Jul 4, 2010

Found another “cup mark” after searching the tor for a good few hours.
I credit it to Thomas Eyre along with the other carvings i found. ; )

Bradley Tor

megadread
megadread Dec 13, 2009

Visited this afternoon and was kindly given permission to go up the tor.

There’s no public access to the tor but if you ask politely at the house they may let you up.

Be aware there are several large dogs roaming the grounds, if you don’t seek permission you may get bit, you have been warned. !

This stone rocks. !

Miscellaneous

Bradley Tor
Rocking Stone
Rhiannon
Rhiannon May 1, 2013

Fig. 12, Plate VIII. is a South-east view of three remarkable hills at the South end of Stanton moor, on which there are Druidical monuments (a). Careliff rocks on the top are a rocking stone and several rock basons; at the foot of these rocks at (b) is a hermitage. The rocks marked (c) form Graned Tor, or Mock Beggars Hall; the hill (d) is Dutwood Tor, where (e) is a rock canopy that hangs over an augurial seat; on the top of this Tor are three rock basons, evidently cut with a tool. This view was taken from near the bottom of the hill [f], on which there are several large rocks called Bradley rocks; on the top is a large rocking stone.

I flatter myself you will agree with me in lamenting, that these curious remains of antiquity should have been so much neglected, and that the want of attention, in not making accurate observations on the form and construction of these rock monuments, should occasion a disbelief of their being Druidical.

I am, with great respect,
Dear Sir,
Your sincere and much obliged
humble Servant,
H.Rooke

An Account of the Druidical Remains in Derbyshire. In a Letter to the Right Honourable Frederick Montague, FAS. By Hayman Rooke, Esq. FAS. In Archaeologia v12 (1796). Careliff = Cratcliffe? and Dutwood also seems to be variously Dudwood and Durwood?

Miscellaneous

Bradley Tor
Rocking Stone
stubob
stubob Dec 9, 2007

“Nearly a quarter of a mile west of Row-tor is another assemblage of large rocks, forming a similar kind of hill, called Bradley-tor, after a former owner of the property on which they stand; on the upper part is a rocking stone 32 feet in circumference, and of orbicular shape, and raised above the ground by 2 stones having a passage between them. This conforms in every aspect to the Tolmens or rock idols described in Borlase’s ‘Antiquities of Cornwall’ in which part of England there are many examples of this form rocking-stones....”

T. Bateman “Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbys”

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ED, 2 pics for Bradley tor i can't upload. ? 4
megadread
megadread
Jul 2010

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