Wet Withens and Eyam Moor 3

 Out on Eyam Moor today, with my wife Dani and new to us rescue dog Polo, who arrived a week ago. We were looking for stone circles, there are 3 in the area. First up we visited Wet Withens, which is the easiest to find with a path (not marked on the map) leading straight to it.

Dani standing on what I believe to be the remains of a cairn just a few metres north of Wet Withens;

The largest and most prominent stone at WW, with Carl Wark (an Iron Age hillfort) in the distance;

The heather and low light makes photography difficult, especially in my hands and with my most basic of cameras;

Most of the stones are fallen and partly buried, like this;

Luckily we had a lovely clear day;

Another view across to Carl Wark;

I can't work out whether these marks are ancient or modern vandalism;

The top of the largest stone, showing what could be cup marks;

Another view of the probable cairn;

Polo, our handsome rescue;

East of WW there are two other circles, Eyam Moor 2, which we couldn't find, and Eyam Moor 3. This stone is part of the latter;

An overview of EM3, with Dani sat on a stone;

EM3 is fairly easy to find, the giveaways being a mound with a change in vegetation and also being close to a corner of a drystone wall.

Like at WW the rocks are partly buried and hidden by heather;

Polo again;

Paul.