Nine Stones Close
Nine Stones Close is a Bronze Age stone circle near Birchover in Derbyshire , England .
Four stones of the stone circle, which once "The gray ladies" ( German "gray ladies" called) are obtained. The largest standing stones in Derbyshire stand in a field on Harthill Moor, west of Doll Tor and the Nine Ladies on Stanton Moor.
In the middle of the 19th century, the antiquarian Thomas Bateman (1821–1861) recorded seven upright stones as well as finds of pottery and flint . There was an excavation in 1877 that may have disrupted the stones. Today there is only a rectangle made of four stones - the highest about 2.0 meters high, which formed a circle about 13.0 m in diameter, when originally there were actually nine stones. It appears that another stone, as part of a dry stone wall south of the circle, survived.
Legend
There are legends associated with the circle: one says that the stones dance at noon, another that they dance at midnight. A story recorded in the 19th century tells of a farm worker who found a clay pipe on the stones. When he smoked it, he could see through the surface of the earth near the stones into a land inhabited by fairies.
literature
- Aubrey Burl: The Stone Circles of the British Isles. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 1976, ISBN 0-300-01972-6 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 9 ′ 37.6 " N , 1 ° 39 ′ 51.8" W.