Gardom’s Ring Cairn

Nearest town:
Bakewell (7km SW)
OS reference:
SK272726
OS sheet:
119
Latitude:
53° 14' 57.67 N
Longitude:
1° 35' 32.3 W
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Image of Gardom’s Ring Cairn by thesweetcheat

Looking across the bracken-shrouded ring cairn towards Gibbet Moor/Hob Hurst’s House.

Image credit: A. Brookes (11.11.2016)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 20, 2016
Image of Gardom’s Ring Cairn by thesweetcheat

The cairn is rather elusive at this time of year. The forked silver birch in the bank is the best marker.

Image credit: A. Brookes (11.11.2016)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 20, 2016
Image of Gardom’s Ring Cairn by thesweetcheat

Just uphill from the ring cairn, on the way towards the Three Men, is a substantial cairnfield. Three of the cairns can be seen here, in a rough line.

Image credit: A. Brookes (11.11.2016)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 20, 2016

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Gardom’s Ring Cairn

thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Dec 1, 2016

The path makes its descent, cutting through a cairnfield of pretty large, irregularly shaped cairns. The Gardom’s Edge ring cairn is completely hidden by bracken, but can be spotted by the forked silver birch that grows from its embanked edge. Once found, the course can be followed round easily enough, but really this is a place for a winter visit if you want to see it properly.

Gardom’s Ring Cairn

juamei
juamei Oct 23, 2011

[visited 2/10/11] This was a side thought for me, a visit purely on the way to the standing stone and the rock art. So I was surprised to find The Prehistoric Peak had an entry just for it. After I got here though I understood entirely, this thing its a brute. It’s got a big diameter and a well defined bank together with several surviving stones feeling analogous to Barbrook II. This would have been worth the trip onto the edge all on its own.

Its position is slightly weird 100 yards further on and its views would have been increased dramatically. Instead it just looks out to Beeley Moor where Hob Hurst’s house etc are. Interestingly it is completely out of site of barbrook which is on the other side of this hill.

Access is ok for a moderately healthy person but may be hard for wheels due to a stile and a thinish gate/opening. It is hard to spot in summer and if I hadn’t been looking for it I wouldn’t have seen it from the path. As you approach up hill you can just see a stone poking out of the bracken to the left of the silver birch.

Gardom’s Ring Cairn

daveyravey
daveyravey Mar 29, 2004

A small ring cairn with south east and north west entrances. The south east one aligns directly with the pass that the A619 goes through. There is a rubble embakment and shallow inner ditch. This place has a great ambience.
Dave 26th March 2004

Gardom’s Ring Cairn

stubob
stubob Apr 18, 2002

Marked as ‘enclosure’ on the O.S Map...where the footpath is shown as passing through the cairn...not quite the same on the ground though the cairn is to the left of the ‘main’route up onto Gardom’s.

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