View NW of Arbor Low, Derbyshire, UK: an oval setting of recumbent limestone slabs within ditch & bank of a henge monument with entrances at SE & NW.
Arbor Low, Derbyshire, UK: an oval setting of recumbent limestone slabs within the ditch & bank of a Class II henge monument with entrances at the SE & NW. This view looks NW from the causeway of the SE entrance showing the SW arc of stones. There are c 50 stones, the broken remains of c 40 stones which may have stood upright in shallow foundations. At the centre are the remains of a 'cove', a setting of 7 stones probably originally forming a square enclosure. Arbor Low was a major ceremonial site, its alignments & geometry concerned with the sun & moon at the solstices. Some 50 leys (ley lines) are said to pass through it.
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Location: Arbor Low Stone Circle, Middleton, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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