Guilbert, G. and Garton, D. (2010). Nine Ladies, Stanton Moor: Surface survey and exploratory excavations in response to erosion. The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal 130. Vol 130, pp. 1-62. https://doi.org/10.5284/1066687. Cite this via datacite
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Nine Ladies, Stanton Moor: Surface survey and exploratory excavations in response to erosion | ||
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Surface survey and exploratory excavations in response to erosion, 1988-2000 | ||
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The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal 130 | ||
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The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal | ||
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1 - 62 | ||
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It has long been recognized that, in such a place as the gritstone plateau of Stanton Moor, no archaeological monument can be considered entirely safe from damage, for, as Pitt-Rivers remarked of Nine Ladies in 1883, 'on a lonely moor remote from habitation no ... protection would suffice if visitors were determined to do damage, in spite of the penalties prescribed'. More than a century on, a programme of repeated, intensive, metrical survey of progressive erosion within and around this much-visited and much-loved, but much-abused, stone-circle was to demonstrate a significant loss from certain patches of the ground-surface, as quantified over the period 1988-1997. This in turn led to further survey and eventually to selective excavations undertaken in 2000. The principal purpose of excavating within the stone-circle and alongside its allegedly related outlier, the King Stone, was to assess the extent to which modern disturbance is affecting surviving anthropogenic deposits of ancient origin. Subsequent repairs to the monument cannot be regarded as a final solution to its problems, and it seems that continued vigilance through active management will ever be necessary. | ||
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2010 | ||
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27 Aug 2013 |
