Nine Ladies Stone Circle

The Nine Ladies is a stone circle on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire, East Midlands, England. Built during the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3300–900 BCE), it consists of ten Millstone Grit stones forming a circle 10.8 metres in diameter. A single monolith, the King Stone, stands to the southwest. The Nine Ladies is part of a tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout Britain, Ireland, and Brittany. The purpose of such monuments remains unknown, though archaeologists speculate the stones represented supernatural entities for their builders.