The Bull Ring
The Bull Ring (also Bullring) is a Class II Henge ( English called Henge Monument ). Henges are a special type of Neolithic earthworks .
The earth and limestone monument is located between Buxton and Chapel-en-le-Frith in the village of Dove Holes in the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire in England . In recent years there have been efforts to preserve the henge. "The Bull Ring" is listed as National Monument No. 23282 registered. The maps show that the Bull Ring is at the intersection of three valleys.
The Bull Ring has a wall with an outer diameter of about 90 m (about the size of the Henges of Arbor Low ). Today the wall is 9 to 11 m wide and about one meter high. It was probably originally only 6–7 m wide, but two meters high. Originally about 5–6 m wide and up to two meters deep, the inner ditch is now 8–12 m wide and 0.5–1.0 m deep.
The wall is interrupted in the north and south by two nine meter wide entrances. The central platform forms a north-south oriented oval of 53 × 46 m. A record from 1789 shows that at that time a single menhir , as a remnant of the stone circle common in Henges , was preserved. It is unclear how many stones once stood here and when they were removed.
In the southwest of the earthwork, near the church wall, there is a multi-level barrow . It is possible that it is, similar to the "Gib Hill" near Arbor Low, an oval or rectangular Neolithic long barrow, which was built over by a round barrow during the Bronze Age .
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literature
- WJ Andrew: The Bull Ring: a stone circle at Dove Holes In: Derbyshire Archaeological Journal vol. 27 1905
- RJC Atkinson: The henge monuments of Great Britain . In: RJC Atkinson CM Piggott, NK Sandars: Excavations at Dorchester Oxon . First report. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1951, pp. 81-107.
- E. Tristram: The stone circle, known as the 'Bull Ring', at Dove Holes, and the mound adjoining In: Derbyshire Archaeological Journal vol. 37 1915
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Coordinates: 53 ° 18 ′ 3.5 ″ N , 1 ° 53 ′ 1.2 ″ W.