<< County Introductions >> County Guides No.2 - Derbyshire
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All of the Neolithic sites in the county, including two very rare circle-henges (Arbor Low and The Bullring) and numerous chambered tombs and long barrows, are located on the limestone plateau in areas where the farming groups were most likely to meet, at certain times of year.
By the Bronze Age the prehistoric peoples of Derbyshire had begun to exploit the upland regions, which are now barren areas of moorland. Of particular interest are the Eastern Moors above the Derwent and Hope valleys, described by John Barnatt, Senior Survey Archaeologist for the Peak National Park Authority, as 'one of the best preserved bronze age landscapes in Britain'. Here prehistoric houses, cairns, barrows, standing stones and stone circles abound. This thriving agriculture continued until around 1000BC, when in the late Bronze Age a major climatic deterioration occurred. Increasing pressures on the land forced farming communities to reorganise and defend themselves leading to the creation of large hillforts such as the huge defended site of Mam Tor above Castleton and Carl Wark near Hathersage amongst others.
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