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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | Wet Withens Stone Circle (aka Eyam Moor 1 Stone Circle), Derbyshire GR: SK225790
Wet Withens, sometimes known as Wet Withers (Old English for ‘the wet land where willows grew’), is the largest embanked stone circle in Derbyshire. Located on a slight slope, just above the 335m contour, to the west of an extensive cairnfield, the ten or eleven millstone grit uprights are placed at the inner edge of a continuous bank. The bank is approximately 31m by 29.5m internally in diameter, between 2m and 3m wide and 1m high and most unusually it has no entrances. In addition, a small cairn lies to the south-east of the centre.
Seven of the stones are still standing, but most of them are leaning and all are less than a metre in height, barely projecting above the level of the bank. The tallest stone, to the north-east, is about 0.70m tall and shaped like a chair. It also has three interesting circular indentations on the back which may be cupmarks, but could just as easily be natural.
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| Posted Comments: PW.
(2001-09-18) | and I thought the name meant soggy sheep, (appropriate at least!) | andi
(2002-04-07) | what a crap picture! | vicky
(2002-10-27) | You got a better one?! That's what it looks like. |
(2002-10-28) | andi, your bitchy comments are such a bonus to this website (not!!!) | john Bowker
(2004-05-24) | it may not be photogeniic but it's a very spooky site, my fourth favourite ring in the peak. |
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