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White Edge cairn looking towards Eyam Moor.

Sidney Addy’s 1888 reproduction of Fairbank’s earlier map. Fingerem Stone is shown in the lower left-hand corner.

The site of Fingerem Stone as seen in December 2009.

The site of Fingerem Stone as seen in July 2009.

Stone circle and cairn. Barbrook One bronze-age stone circle and cairn. The cairn is visible to the right on the horizon.

Wet Withens (Old English for ‘the wet land where willows grew) stone circle. With an internal diameter of 30m Wet Withens is the largest embanked stone circle in Derbyshire. The stones vary in height from about 25cm to 70cm and all of them are within the 1m high embankment, making them difficult to see. The rocks in the foreground are part of the nearby cairn. The Wet Withens embankment can be seen as a dark oval of heather below the horizon.

The remains of Eyam Moor cairn is just a few metres to the north of Wet Withens stone circle. The cairn was partially destroyed by workmen building the turnpike road to Hathersage in 1759. In ‘Blacks Guide To Derbyshire 1881’ the Eyam Moor Barrow is described as being 90ft in diameter and 35ft high. It is in a poor state of preservation but, being more visible is a useful navigation aid for anyone visiting the nearby stone circle.

Re-discovered in 1981, Ash Cabin Flat Stone Circle is normally very difficult to find, and difficult to see, once found. This year (2009) the heather has been burnt back giving an opportunity to get a good look at this oval of stones measuring between 4.5 and 5.5 meters diameter. It is difficult to know how many stones make up the circle as many of them might have been incorporated within the henge as a ‘pavement’ in the original design.

Hordron Edge stone circle.

Stone circle on Bamford Moor, near to Dennis Knoll, looking towards High Neb.

Snow banked up against the ring cairn or henge can be seen from the bottom right of the picture, running to the top left, and then to the top right.

Sidney Oldall Addy’s 1888 map, based on an earlier survey by Fairbank which shows the site of Ciceley Low, marked as a ‘circle’ just below the Fingerem Stone, a nearby cairn. The Ringinglow Inn and Fenney Brook (both top right) are now known as the Norfolk Arms and Limb Brook.