Stanton Moor Central

Embanked Stone Circle, Ringcairn

Stanton Moor Central, Ringcairn or Embanked Stone Circle

This site is impressive by its sheer size, being in excess of 20m in diameter. It is definitely worth seeing; though you have to get up close to understand it as it is quite overgrown.

For confirmation that you have found it, search the southern end entrance and you should quickly find a marker stone with T56 carved into. This is the marker left by the Heathcoats when they did their excavation of the site in the 1930s.

No uprights are visible, although the entrance does have four radial-set stones flanking it. The large circular bank stand almost 1m high in places and the boulders strewn about its centre hint at it being the location of a robbed cairn. There are no uprights in the embankment that can confirm this as an embanked stone circle unless they are being hidden by the vegetation.

  • Location: Stanton Moor
  • Other names: Stanton Moor III
  • Nearest Town: Bakewell, 6km NW
  • OS Explorer Map: OL24
  • OS Grid: SK24806327
  • GPS: 53° 09’ 57.0” N • 01° 37’ 49.3” W
  • Altitude: 308m
  • Difficulty: Easy
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