Arbor Low

Arbor Low is a henge monument in the Peak District of Derbyshire in the East Midlands in the north of England. The 375 m high, in a secluded place in the Middleton Moor is located west of the eponymous village (grid ref OSGB -. SK 1603 6355 ). The site is under protection ( scheduled monument).

Construction

The Henge consists of an oval ring wall of a maximum of 90 meters in diameter and two meters in height and an inner, up to 10 m wide and up to 1.5 m deep trench, which is accompanied by a stone circle, which probably originally consisted of 39 stones. In the north- west and south-southeast there are passages in the Wall and interruptions of the trench. On the raised indoors are about 50 larger and smaller standing stones of limestone that formed a horseshoe in the middle, perhaps a " cove " as it is also known from Avebury and Mount Pleasant. Here is a loose burial grave goods was found during the excavation in 1902. Whether the stones once stood upright, is unclear. From the south a earthwork leads (SK 16 SE 31) on the plant.

Near the southeastern access a round grave hill ( SK 16 SE 10 ) was applied in the Bronze Age in the outer wall area. The burials were discovered in 1845 and excavated by Bateman.

The resulting approximately 2500 BC Henge has a counterpart in the plant just 15 km north of The Bull Ring in Dove Holes.

Excavations

1901-1902 led Harold St. George Gray by a smaller excavation that yielded flint tools and arrowheads.

Sites in the area

200 meters away is the Bronze Age grave mound Gib Hill (from Gibbet = gallows ). He is five meters high and has a diameter of ten meters. It contained a stone cist, which was excavated in 1848. In it there was a cremation in an urn. Give Hill is younger than Arbor Low, it was built on an Early Neolithic Long Barrow, which is older than the Henge. In the area there are also the ring systems of Barbrook.

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