Nine Stones Close Stone Circle — Attraction in Derbyshire Dales

Nine Stones Close is one of many small stone circles found around Derbyshire, England from Bronze Ages. Like its partial disappearance, its purpose remains mysterious. Monument is known as Nine Stones Close, so why are there only four stones here? Six of the original nine are accounted for: the four seen here upon a bright British dawn, a fifth serving unceremoniously as a fencepost close by, and another found lying flat in an adjacent field. As for what became of the last three (or possibly even more), that's a mystery...

The whole point of this site is the fact that the moonrise of the Major Lunar Standstill is framed by Robin Hood Stride. You put yourself in this place four thousand years ago, and you and the rest of your tribe are told by the Shamen to congregate here, in this place, at this time, while the Moon rose in between those pillars, framing him on his alter- you would have been awestruck, and believe me, I've been there on such an occasion, and it was everything I thought it...

Nine Stones Close or Grey Ladiea near Robin Hood's Stride. Legend has it that the stones transform into dancing women at midnight and some say they dance at midday. A 19th century legend tells of a farm labourer who found a clay pipe by the stones. As he smoked it, a hole to the centre of the earth emerged through which he saw a land inhabited by the fae.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find a clay pipe on this trip, maybe next time. Previously made up of 9 stones...