Barbrook One

Barbrook One

Shown within Derbyshire
Location	Ramsley Moor, Peak District
Coordinates	53°16′35″N 1°35′01″W / 53.27652°N 1.583735°W / 53.27652; -1.583735Coordinates: 53°16′35″N 1°35′01″W / 53.27652°N 1.583735°W / 53.27652; -1.583735
Type	Stone circle
History
Periods	Bronze Age

Barbrook One (grid reference

SK27857558) is a stone circle on Ramsley Moor in the Peak District.

Description[]

"Barbrook No. 1" is an embanked stone circle.^[1] It has one large standing stone (1 metre high) and 11 smaller stones (5 cm to 25 cm high).^[1] The circle has an internal diameter of about 13 metres, and it is surrounded by a rubble bank 3 metres wide.^[1]

The stone circle stands in a cairn field on Ramsley Moor. This includes "Barbrook No. 2" which is a ring cairn consisting of a rubble bank with internal diameter 13 metres.^[2] It is about 200 metres to the north by northwest of Barbrook 1.^[2] All together there are about 80 cairns on Ramsley Moor.^[3] The majority are less than 6 metres in diameter.^[3] Many are believed to be clearance cairns of later prehistoric date. Some of the larger cairns are likely to be Bronze Age funerary monuments.^[3] The area is a designated Scheduled Ancient Monument.^[4]

Two kilometres to the north is another stone circle known as "Barbrook No. 3" (or "Barbrook III").^[5]

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