Ladybower Tor

Nearest town:
Sheffield (16km ENE)
OS reference:
SK204869
OS sheet:
110
Latitude:
53° 22' 41.55 N
Longitude:
1° 41' 35.9 W
Added to TMA by

Images

Image of Ladybower Tor (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by Chris Collyer

If you plan on visiting the carving it might be worth printing this out to orientate yourself with the rocks of the Tor and surrounding landscape.

Chris Collyer
Chris Collyer Sep 27, 2008
Image of Ladybower Tor (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by Chris Collyer

If you compare this with the diagram the outer circle around the swastika shape is reasonably clear with the gap in the circle to the left – what’s in the centre is a mystery to me though. The smaller ring is just to the upper right, between 1 and 2 on a clock face.

Chris Collyer
Chris Collyer Sep 27, 2008
Image of Ladybower Tor (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by stubob

What’s on the stone.

Image credit: Image based on the original diagram, which appears in the Derbyshire Archaeological Journal Vol.123 2003.
stubob
stubob Jul 5, 2004
Image of Ladybower Tor (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by stubob

04/03. Bit of a magic eye picture. Swastika carving and a double ring above it.

stubob
stubob Apr 10, 2003

Articles

Ladybower Tor

wiccaman9
wiccaman9 Jan 28, 2016

Pictures included of both areas of rock art.

The main rock-art image appears almost like an iron-age banjo enclosure, with numerous bulbous structures in positive relief within.

Interpretations vary, but I am of the opinion that the positive relief ‘mounds’ represent the neighbouring hills (Win hill, Crook hill, Ladybower Tor and the raised areas of Bamford moor to the East), the grooves within, effectively represent the Rivers Ashop and Derwent, and small river from accumulations of water from areas north of Moscar Moor (to the East)

The rock art seems to represent the hills and valleys and rivers before the formation of the Ladybower reservoir...in effect ‘a map’ in the truest sense.

additional images included of the extra ring-marked art...

cheers

Aron

Ladybower Tor

stubob
stubob Dec 17, 2002

On a large boulder just below the summit of Ladybower Tor are two very worn carvings. One is a double ringed oval the other a swastika in a 30cm ring ( the swastika is about half the size ).

I’ve never managed to get a photo worth posting because they are both so worn; Which also makes them a bit of a pain to find.

The Northern most, known rock art in The Peak.

Topics

Stu / Chris C bit of advice re the rock art 3
megadread
megadread
Jul 2009
Stone on Derwent Moor near Ladybower? 21
zerkalo
zerkalo
May 2009

Sites within 20km of Ladybower Tor

Like all websites everywhere, we use cookies.