Nine Stones Close

Nine Stones Close, also known as the Grey Ladies, is a stone circle on Harthill Moor in Derbyshire in the English East Midlands [1]. The purpose of the monument is unknown [1]. Nine Stones Close originally measured 13.7 metres in diameter [1]. In the mid-19th century it had seven stones in its ring, although by the early 21st century that number had declined to four [1]. There are two carved cup marks, a form of rock art, evident on one of the remaining stones [1]. In 1877, William Greenwell and Llewellynn Jewitt excavated at the site, and in the late 1930s the Derbyshire Archaeological Society set two of the orthostats standing again [1].