Ariejester
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Arbor Low - Derbyshire - UK
Arbor Low is a fascinating place, one where when I have been I found the energy to be rather chaotic, of course my partner loved it (he works well with chaos energy). I felt as though I wanted to find more, dig deeper as such when I was there, but I came away feeling rather magickal and powerful, so perhaps there is something to the energy we felt there that day...
Heres a bit of history about Arbor Low:-
Arbor Low is a site of archaeological and cultural interest. No-one knows why this henge or its sister henge at Dove Holes (the Bull Ring) were constructed or what they were used for, but they must have been important focal points for the people of the time. The henge was constructed about 2500 BC and consists of a circular bank, 76 metres in diameter and 2 metres high, with inside it a ditch about 1.5 metres deep enclosing a circular central 'sanctuary' area. There are entrances at the north-west and south-east of the bank.
The central area contains 46 large and 13 smaller stones, arranged in a circle with a group in the centre. The surprise is that all the stones are lying flat and no-one now knows for certain whether this was how they were originally or whether they were once upright and have been toppled.
Near the south-east entrance a Bronze Age tumulus has been added, just within the bank - this is a much later feature and was found to contain several burials when excavated by Thomas Bateman in 1845.
Two hundred metres away to the south-west lies Gib Hill, a Bronze Age burial mound which may have once been connected with Arbor Low by an earth bank. This is an impressively large tumulus, 5 metres high and 10 metres in diameter, and was also excavated by Bateman who found a large burial cist here in 1848.
So what do you think this site was built for and why? Have you ever been to Arbor Low and how did you feel when you were there?
Take care
Arie.
www.goodfromevil.com
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