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Nine Ladies

Stanton Moor, Derbyshire

Nine women who danced on a Sunday, with their fiddler close by.

The Nine Ladies is a small ring of stones in a birch wood on Stanton Moor. Like many circles, it carries the story of dancers turned to stone for dancing on the Sabbath.

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When
Bronze Age
Where
53.1678, -1.6346
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

English Heritage, free. A gentle walk across the moor.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
From the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

The name is a puzzle, because there are ten stones. One was buried for several centuries, which gave the impression of nine. The tenth was unearthed in 1977.

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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