Arbor Low
Arbor Low is a henge monument in the Peak District in Derbyshire in the East Midlands in north England . The 375 m high, secluded place in "Middleton Moor" is west of the eponymous place (Grid ref. OSGB - SK 1603 6355). The site is under protection (scheduled monument).
construction
The henge consists of an oval ring wall with a maximum diameter of 90 m and a height of two meters and an inner ditch up to 10 m wide and up to 1.5 m deep, which is accompanied by a stone circle that originally consisted of 39 stones. In the north-west and south-south-east there are passages in the wall and interruptions in the trench. The upper interior of about 50 large and small are standing stones of limestone , which in the middle of a horseshoe formed, perhaps a "cove" , as well as from Avebury and Mount Pleasant is known. During the excavation in 1902, a burial without accessories was found here. It is unclear whether the stones were ever upright. An earthwork (SK 16 SE 31) leads to the system from the south.
A round burial mound (SK 16 SE 10) was built in the outer wall area near the south-eastern entrance in the Bronze Age . The burials were discovered and excavated by Bateman as early as 1845.
That around 2500 BC The henge, which originated in BC, has a counterpart in the 15 km north of The Bull Ring in Dove Holes .
Excavations
1901–1902 Harold St. George Gray carried out a minor excavation that produced flint tools and arrowheads .
Find places in the area
The Bronze Age burial mound Gib Hill (from Gibbet = gallows) is 200 meters away. It is five meters high and ten meters in diameter. It contained a stone box that was excavated in 1848. Inside it was a cremation in an urn . Gib Hill is younger than Arbor Low, it was built on an early Neolithic long barrow that is older than the henge. The area is also home to the Barbrook ring systems and various stones with cup-and-ring markings on Middleton Moor.
literature
- Harold St. Georg Gray, HH Arnold-Bemrose, HA Hubberty: Arbor Low Stone Circle, excavations in 1901 and 1902, the quarrying and transport of its stones; Geological notes on Arbor Low. Derbyshire Arch. And Nat. Hist. Soc. 1904.
- Peak Park Joint Planning Board: Arbor Low - A Guide to the Monuments . 1996 ISBN 0-907543-74-X .
- T. Bateman: Vestiges of the antiquities of Derbyshire, and the sepulchral usages of its inhabitants from the most remote ages to the reformation (1848) 31, 64.
- D. Thompson: Guide to Arbor Low, together with notes on three other prehistoric sites in Derbyshire . London: HM Stationery Office 1963.
Individual evidence
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Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 8.1 " N , 1 ° 45 ′ 41.8" W.