BIG 15th Birthday Weekend: Bronze Age Nine Ladies Stone Circle Walk

This event is part of the Outdoorlads *BIG 15th Birthday Celebration Weekend* and participation is intended for those attending the Celebration Weekend.

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BIG 15th Birthday Celebration Weekend (Hostel Option)

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Stone circles are monuments consisting of a number of stones fixed to the ground at intervals to enclose a sort of circular area. Stone circles were built in Derbyshire and the Peak District during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Ages, approximately between 3,000-1,500BC. The reason for them is not altogether clear though it is thought they had a religious purpose. 

There are around 20 Stone Circles surviving in Derbyshire and the Peak District. Join us for this 15th anniversary walk to see some of the best surviving examples.

This walk taken in the Nine Ladies Stone Circle, on Stanton Moor which is a circle of nine stones 10m in diameter. Each stone is less than 1m in height and some are slightly leaning. An outlying stone - a block of millstone grit 58 cm high and called the King Stone, stands approximately 45 metres from the centre of the circle. Legend has it that one Sunday 9 ladies and a fiddler came up to the moor to dance and for this act of sacrilege they were all turned to stone.

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• Anyone with COVID-19 symptoms, even if they are extremely mild, or who lives or is in a support bubble with someone showing symptoms, is asked not to attend. This is in line with the government’s coronavirus advice.
• You must also immediately self-isolate and not attend the event if you or someone in your household or support bubble shows coronavirus symptoms or tests positive. You can find the NHS self-isolation guidance here.
• OutdoorLads’ Covid-19 Policy for hostel and BIG events applies to this event. On arrival, we will need to see evidence that you are fully vaccinated, or have registered a negative lateral flow test in the last 48 hours, or have Covid-19 antibodies. Evidence of this can be obtained via the NHS App in England, with equivalent schemes available in Wales and Scotland. Our full policy and more details can be found here.