Nine Ladies Stone Circle

The Nine Ladies is a stone circle on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire in the English East Midlands [1]. The Nine Ladies is part of a tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages [1]. The Nine Ladies stands on the northern end of Stanton Moor, an area of heathland in the Peak District [1]. It is at a height of between 297 and 298 metres OD [1]. The Nine Ladies stone circle measures 10.8 m in diameter, and is located on ground which slopes downward towards the east to northeast [1]. A report from 1907 noted that there were nine stones in the circle, all but one of which stood upright [1]. The stones are made from a millstone grit sourced locally, a type of medium-grained sandstone [1]. The antiquarian Hayman Rooke noted the existence of the Nine Ladies, which he considered "a Druid temple," in a 1782 article about the heritage of Stanton Moor published in the journal Archaeologia [1].