Wet Withens

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Wet Withens' stone seat

Wet Withens (also called Eyam Moor I) is a Bronze Age , walled stone circle , ( English Embanked Stone Circle ) northwest of the hamlet of Grindleford in north Derbyshire in the East Midlands in England .

Wet Withens

Wet Withens is 339 meters above sea level on a gently sloping slope on Eyam Moor. It is the largest stone circle in Derbyshire. Most of the stones are almost completely covered by heather and shrubs. The approximately one meter high and 3.0 to 4.0 m wide, slightly oval wall around the circle has an inside diameter of about 29 to 30.5 meters. He doesn't seem to have access. Ten stones with a height of 25 to 70 centimeters stand or lie within the wall.

It is believed that up to 18 stones could originally have stood here if the distances between the stones had been the same. The missing stones could have been removed or overturned. Maybe some of them are buried in the wall.

There is an indication from the 19th century that there was also a single menhir in the center of the circle . What can still be seen there today is a small cairn .

The most striking stone stands free from vegetation in the northeast. It is the tallest stone. It has a small protrusion, resembling a stone seat, and may have some small bowls on its outside. The profile of the stone is similar to that of the rocks from the outcrop of Higger Tor in the north. About 10 meters north of the circle is the large cairn of Eyam Barrow.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Circles whose ring stones are set within or on a low, wide stone or earth wall. According to Aubrey Burl's three-phase theory of the development of the stone circles, these circles fall into the middle period (2670–1975 BC)
  2. ↑ Embanked stone circle known as Wet Withens, and adjacent cairn. Historic England. Retrieved June 26, 2018.

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Coordinates: 53 ° 18 ′ 26.9 "  N , 1 ° 39 ′ 47.5"  W.