Nine Ladies Stone Circle, Matlock
Nine Ladies and their fiddler were turned to stone on the peaks of Derbyshire for dancing on the Sabbath. Be warned!
Mystery & History in the Peak District: Birchover, Rowtor Rocks and Nine Ladies Stone Circle
The pretty village of Birchover lies on the South Eastern border of the Peak District National Park. It is surrounded by mysterious ancient moorland and a fascinating Druid cave system
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Nine Ladies Stone Circle of Stanton Moor - Megalithomania Exploration
This small but beautiful stone circle in Derbyshire called Nine Ladies is located within a grand Bronze Age Cemetery. Made of millstone grit, none of the stones are over three feet tall. To the south-west the Fiddlers Stone (or King Stone) acts as an outlier, but has been moved several times. The circle may have in fact have had ten stones, as a recumbent monolith was recently discovered near the main circle. The low stone circle is set in he beautiful Peak District and Druids and pagans celebrate summer solstice there. Includes aerial quadcopter footage. Get Hugh's new book on Stone Circles here: (US Amazon) and here (UK Amazon).
Filmed, Produced, and Directed by Hugh Newman. Copyright Hugh Newman/Megalithomania 2015/2017. All Rights Reserved.
Hymn to the Nine Ladies Stone Circle - Peak District, Derbyshire, England
I visited this ancient place yesterday - a fine, early Autumn day. No-one around, in stark contrast to the turmoil which beset the Nine Ladies lasting for over ten years - namely commercial quarrying interests versus those who wish to protect these places, of which more below.
It is a small early Bronze Age (c 2500 BC) stone circle traditionally believed to depict nine ladies turned to stone as a penalty for dancing on the Sabbath. It is part of a complex of prehistoric circles and standing stones on Stanton Moor, Derbyshire.
There are nine upright stones, each of local millstone grit, and each less than a metre high, in a clearing in a (relatively) modern wood planted on Stanton Moor. They sit in a rough circle with a gap at the south side of the circle where no stone-hole has been found. However, an additional stone, lying flat rather than upright, was discovered after being exposed as a crop mark in the dry weather of 1976. It is now visible.The circle is built on an embankment which levelled the local terrain. The small King Stone lies forty metres from the circle to the west-south-west and is clearly visible from it.
The Nine Ladies were among the 28 archetypal monuments in England and Wales included in General Pitt-Rivers' Schedule to the first Ancient Monuments Protection Act, which became law in 1882. It was taken into state care the following year.
The site has been the focus of a long-running environmental protest. In 1999 Stancliffe Stone Ltd submitted a planning application to re-open two dormant quarries (Endcliffe and Lees Cross) on the wooded hillside beside Stanton Moor. The proposed quarry was only 200 metres (660 ft) from Nine Ladies, on land owned by Haddon Hall estate and leased to Stancliffe Stone.
A local protest group SLAG (Stanton Lees Action Group) was set up to oppose the quarry. The group was joined by environmental protesters who set up a long-running and controversial protest camp. They built many tree houses, from which the inhabitants are hard to evict. The protesters defied a court eviction order in February 2004, and continued to occupy the site until the winter of 2008--09.
In 2004 the High Court of England classified the two quarries as dormant. This decision was appealed but the classification was upheld in June 2005. This meant that the quarries could not re-open until the Peak District National Park Authority agreed on a set of working conditions for them. In 2008 permission to quarry near the circle was finally revoked. (Adapted from and courtesy of Wikipedia).
My photos here include shots of the many clooties and other artifacts placed on a young oak tree just South of the circle, among other things in remembrance of the ten year struggle of the many protesters (and indeed the Peak District National Park Authority, the Friends of the Peak District, and the Council to Protect Rural England (CPRE)) in defence of this sacred and beautiful place from the predations of commercial quarrying interests.
All is quiet now, as it should be.
The music is Shackleton's Cross, composed and performed here by Howard Goodall CBE, of whom I am very fond, both for his compositions and his eloquent public teaching about the language of music. I have uploaded a couple of his TV broadcasts elsewhere on my Channel.
This particular piece is included in the Album Inspired, and although Mr Goodall's inspiration for this music was a painting by Edward Seago depicting the final resting place in the Antarctic of Sir Earnest Shackleton, I thought it fitting for this subject too. I hope Mr Goodall will not mind my using his beautiful, reflective piece in this context.
Nine Ladies stone circle in snow! Peak District
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Peak District in snow after the blizzard of February 2010, View from the top of the Andle Stone towards Youlgreave, the Sneinton campsite in the trees, the King Stone, the Nine Ladies Stone Circle, the Earl Grey Tower, and the drive back towards Stanton Lees. Filmed on Stanton Moor not far from Matlock & Darley Dale (C) 2010 Sneinton Free State Ministry of Tourism
Winter solstice wildcamp, 9 ladies stone circle
Peak District Walk - Bradford Dale & Nine Ladies Stone Circle
A year ago I found a map, not a treasure map but a regular White Peak Ordnance Survey map. It had a route plotted on it that i'd not walked before so today we headed off to check it out. We'd just returned home from an action packed holiday in the Cairngorms in Scotland so a gentle walk in the Glorious Peak District was the perfect way to spend a sunny afternoon. The route takes in Robin Hood's Stride, Bradford Dale and the Nine Ladies Stone Circle, you can check out the map in the links below.
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Ben at the Nine Ladies Stone Circle
Ben at the Nine Ladies Stone Circle, Stanton Moor Derbyshire, England (The Nine Ladies)
Walk around The Nine Ladies Stone Circle
Nine Ladies
From Wikipedia: Nine Ladies is a Bronze Age stone circle located on Stanton Moor, Derbyshire, England...Druids and pagans occasionally celebrate summer solstice there.
Nine ladies stone circle and Stanton moor
Really nice walk 7.7 miles
The Nine Ladies stone circle on Stanton moor
Stealth camping and hiking around Stanton moor
Nine Ladies anti-Quarry Campaign
Activists halt Stancliffe Stones (Marshalls) plan to reopen a disused quarry on Stanton moor; stone extraction of the hillside would have come within forty feet of the nine ladies stone circle. Since the making of this film the nine ladies protest has been won.
The 9 ladies stone circle of Stanton Moor, Derbyshire
The 9 ladies stone circle of Stanton Moor, Derbyshire, is the most famous of the Bronze Age relics believed to have been constructed about 1500BC . Legend has it that the nine ladies danced here on the Sabbath Day and were turned to stone as a punishment, along with the fiddler who stands nearby.
Nine ladies pt1
Witches stones
Nine ladies summer solstice with Pea and Roxy 2014
This solstice at the Nine Ladies, Stanton moor Derbyshire we got handfasted
This was our song and sunset
Walking - The Nine Ladies Derbyshire
High up on Stanton Moor near Rowsley in Derbyshire is the Nine Ladies stone circle.
This is the second time doing this walk, the week previous I had issues with the video and footage I shot was useless, so a week later and I am back to repeat the route.
After parking at the Rowsley Shopping Village the walk begins and remains for the most part an uphill stroll, taking a route through some old stone quarry sites long since disused, and with ruined stone buildings an discarded and unfinished millstones giving a glimpse of an industrial past, all leading eventually to Stanton Moor and our objective the Nine Ladies stone circle. Folk lore says the ladies were turned to stone after being caught dancing on the sabbath, shameful indeed!
The walk off the moor leads through woodland and open fields, offering some stunning panoramic views of the White Peak. Make sure you stop and take time to drink in the view.
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Arbor Low Stone Circle complex in Derbyshire
Arbor Low Stone Circle in Derbyshire
Long Rake, Monyash, Bakewell, Derbyshire, DE45 1JS
Arbor Low is a Neolithic henge monument with about 50 white limestone slabs, one of the most impressive complexes of prehistoric monuments in Derbyshire.
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Nine Ladies: Anti-quarrying Direct action
Anti-quarrying Direct action at Stanton Moor, in the Derbyshire Peak District
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