Park Gate stone circle
The relatively well-preserved stone circle of Park Gate lies on a swampy plateau at the northern end of a cairn field in the moorland above Beeley, east of Bakewell in Derbyshire in England .
The circle consists of ten stones in an oval about 12.5 × 12.0 meters in diameter and another, completely buried stone in the northwest. If evenly distributed, there were originally about 20 stones on the circle.
The larger stones are 0.5 m to 0.9 m high, with the exception of one steeply sloping one in the south. This stone would probably be over three feet high. It looks like there is a bowl on one of its edges , but it is believed to be a bullet impact from the training of the Moor Army.
The sometimes difficult to see outer wall is between 1.5 and 2.5 m wide and about 15.0 m in diameter.
The two Ring Cairns of Beeley Moor North and Beeley Warren North East are nearby to the northwest.
literature
- T. Bateman: Vestiges of the antiquities of Derbyshire, and the sepulchral usages of its inhabitants from the most remote ages to the reformation (1848).
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Coordinates: 53 ° 12 ′ 46.6 " N , 1 ° 34 ′ 53.3" W.