You want it darker......and, yes, a m getting round to fieldnotes. Boy does this place deserve them. Real archaeology coming up..and possible reclassification as sacred site not just natural rock feature. There’s more to here..otherwise I wouldn’t bother going out in snow, trust me.
My conviction that these stones have been a waypoint and place of congregation for millennia on the ridge that leads to Stanage is absolute. From this angle the right hand stone becomes ravenlike. Look: it even has an eye...
Spencer says the stones are on a high point visible from miles around, so here’s some landscape context from Sir William Hill to the southwest. Ox Stones (not themselves visible at this distance) are on the high ground very slightly right of centre. Between there and here are Wet Withens stone circle (near distance, in the heather) as well as the sites clustered above Millstone Edge, including plenty of cairns, Carl Wark hillfort and Winyard’s Nick standing stone. Chock full of stuff, in fact.
Ox Stones 2
Ox Stones 2
Ox Stones 2
Ox Stones 2
Ox Stones 2
Ox Stones 1
Ox Stones 1
Ox Stones 1
Ox Stones 1
Ox Stones 1
A skyline feature for miles around. Downhill due south of the mid point between them, immediately adjacent and on the west side of a broken down stone wall is a probable circle and alignment laid flat in the heather which defeats photography and correct interpretation.
