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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | Park Gate Stone Circle, near Beeley, Derbyshire GR: SK281685
Park Gate is a relatively well-preserved embanked stone circle located on a boggy plateau on the moorland above Beeley, at the northern end of a cairnfield. The two ringcairns of Beeley Moor North (GR: SK277687) and Beeley Warren North East (GR: SK279688) are located close by to the north-west.
The circle consists of ten stones in a ring, approximately 12.5m by 12m in diameter with a further stone, completely buried, to the north-west. If the stones were evenly spaced, there may originally have been as many as twenty in the circle.
The larger stones range between about 0.5m and 0.9m in height, except for one lying to the south which leans badly and has all but collapsed. This stone would probably have been well over a metre in height originally and has a possible cupmark on one of its edges.
The bank, difficult to see in parts, is between 1.5m and 2.5m wide and 15m in diameter. It is clearest to the west and south-west.
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