Wednesday Walk to Arbor Low and Gib Hill in Derbyshire, UK

in wednesdaywalk •  5 years ago 

We've been to Arbor Low before but my brother has a new camera, so we made a return trip so he could get better photos.

Arbor Low is a Neolithic henge stone circle in the middle of a farmer's field. At the entrance to the farm, we paid a £1 a person to enter, as it's on private land. The stone circle is just approximately 300 metres from the farm.

The bank, ditch and the circle of some 50 fallen white limestone slabs, surrounds a stone ‘cove’. Closeby is Gib Hill, which is thought to be a large burial mound.

In the 19th century, excavations took place at the mound by Derbyshire antiquarian Thomas Bateman who found human remains with a pottery vessel, stone tools including flint.

A walk around a farmer's field couldn't have been more interesting.

#wednesdaywalk is initiated by @tattoodjay.

Photos by @ellenripley - Julie Smitham. All rights reserved.

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I had never heard of that what an interesting place and thanks for sharing with us

Thanks for joining Wednesday Walk :)

I had never heard of that what an interesting place and thanks for sharing with us

Thanks for joining Wednesday Walk :)

We are obsessed by stone circles. Thankfully, there are a lot around here.

If there were any here I to would have to see them all

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Thank you.

A truly great place for a walk! It fires the imagination trying to envision who walked there before you!

Yes, I love the history of places like this.

I do, too. It is one of my favorite parts about traveling in Europe.

The uk country side is really beautiful

I'm very lucky.