Ancient Peakland

Bill Bevan (2007) Halsgrove

A get out and see guide to Peak archaeology.

Ice age hunters - 50,000-10,000 years ago

Creswell Crags

Thor's Cave

Forest Nomads - Mesolithic 10,000-6,000 years ago

First Farmers - Neolithic 6,000-4,000 years ago

Pea Low

Long Low

Five Wells

Arbor Low

Bull Ring

Dead Ringers - Neolithic to early Bronze Age 4,500-3,500 years ago

Stanton Moor, nine ladies and others

Robin Hood's Stride and nine stone close

Seven stones of Hordron

Froggatt edge stone circle

Wigber Low

Barbrook 1 and 2

Hob Hurst's House

Wet Withens

Pike Low burial mound

Beeley Moor triple cairn

Settling Down - Later Bronze Age to Iron Age 3,500-2,000 years ago

Mam Tor

Gardom's Edge

Castle Naze

Big Moor - Swine Sty

Carl Wark

Mellor

Romans and Natives - 43AD-400AD

Navio

Ardotalia

Chee Tor

Roystone Grange

North Lees

Poole's Cavern

Illuminating the Dark Ages - 400AD-1066AD

Grey ditch

Hope

Eyam

Benty grange Anglo Saxon burial

Alstonfield and Ilam

Bakewell crosses

Bradbourne church and cross

 

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Three ships

On Birchin Edge, north from the Robin Hood pub, are three large rocks near to Nelson's monument. They have been carved with the names of Nelson's ships Victory, Defiance and Royal Soverin (sic) (SK278 729).

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Double yellow lines

On a limestone outcrop above Coombs Dale was these two lines of lichen.

Up close I think they are Caloplaca sp.

But why are they growing in 2 lines??

 

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