Derbyshires's Mysterious Sites -------------Hauntings------------ Bleaklow Head Lady Bower Reservoir Winnets Pass ---------------Stone Circles----------- Arbor Low Nine Ladies Hordron Edge ---------------Major Sites----------- Peak Cavern ---------------Legends----------- ---------------Folklore----------- Kinder Downfall and Pool Eldon Hole Devils Elbow Peak Cavern ---------------Burial Chambers----------- Nine Stones Home Site Map Derbyshire Map England Map Scotland Map Wales Map Nine Ladies Stone Circle The Nine Ladies Stone Circle stands on Stanton Moor, which has over 60 round barrows and cairns dating from the Bronze Age period. The area is currently under threat from quarrying. The stone circle dates from the late Neolithic to early Bronze Age and consists of nine stones around 3 feet in height, in a circle with a diameter of 33 feet. At one time there was a central cairn within the stones, now long since vanished. Standing apart from the main circle to the Southwest is the Kings Stone, which is also 3 feet in height. There may have been more stone circles in close vicinity in the past although they have now disappeared. According to folklore the stones are the remains of nine women and a fiddler (the Kings stone) who were turned into stone for dancing on the Sabbath. For similar legends see: Merry maidens, Stanton Drew and the Hurlers. Map ref: SK 247 634 Directions:Reached from a footpath from a minor road from Stanton-in-Peak or Stanton Lees. Hordron Edge Stone Circle The stone circle is associated with fairy lights. One of the stones in the circle is known as the fairy stone and may have been venerated in the past as a fairy abode. When we arrived at the site, the day after a major festival in the Celtic calender, offerings of fruit and pine cones had been placed on top of each stone. Probably by modern day pagans or witches. Map ref: SK 215 868 Directions: The circle can be reached after a climb up steep moorland from a car park on the A57.