Ash Cabin Flat
Location -
Hallam Moor
Sheffield - Western Outskirts.
OS Grid Reference - SK 2694 8620
Follow Redmires road till you come to Wyming brook nature reserve and use the free parking facilities there. From the car park you need the signposted path to the right of the notice board, the first one not the one by the metal barrier, climb the rocky tree root woven steps and follow the line of the dry stone wall to your left, and after around 50 metres you’ll pass through a wooden gate. You then continue following the wall as it heads downhill where the wall becomes broken. Here you should notice a path that goes through the broken wall off to your left, don’t take it but continue another 50 metres or so, then turn 90° to your right facing the moorland. The circle is around 50 metres into the heather.
A fairly well preserved late neolithic or early Bronze age embanked stone circle located in a sea of heather on Ash cabin flat on the Western outskirts of Sheffield and rediscovered in 1981 due to the moor being burnt back.
The site is oval in shape and around 9m x 7.5m diameter to the outer edge of the bank.
The banking is well preserved and shows there was no entrance to the interior.
There are around a dozen stones within and on top of the bank but it’s uncertain whether they are circle stones or packing stones from the bank.
English Heritage have recorded 5 of the stones, 2 still standing, as stones that once stood making up the circle.
If you visit any time soon (23/11/09) you’ll find the moor has been burnt back again giving an excellent view of the site, when the heather is in full flow it’s as high as the highest stones making not only finding the circle nigh on impossible to find but also defining the site very difficult.
Hallam Moor
Sheffield - Western Outskirts.
OS Grid Reference - SK 2694 8620
Follow Redmires road till you come to Wyming brook nature reserve and use the free parking facilities there. From the car park you need the signposted path to the right of the notice board, the first one not the one by the metal barrier, climb the rocky tree root woven steps and follow the line of the dry stone wall to your left, and after around 50 metres you’ll pass through a wooden gate. You then continue following the wall as it heads downhill where the wall becomes broken. Here you should notice a path that goes through the broken wall off to your left, don’t take it but continue another 50 metres or so, then turn 90° to your right facing the moorland. The circle is around 50 metres into the heather.
A fairly well preserved late neolithic or early Bronze age embanked stone circle located in a sea of heather on Ash cabin flat on the Western outskirts of Sheffield and rediscovered in 1981 due to the moor being burnt back.
The site is oval in shape and around 9m x 7.5m diameter to the outer edge of the bank.
The banking is well preserved and shows there was no entrance to the interior.
There are around a dozen stones within and on top of the bank but it’s uncertain whether they are circle stones or packing stones from the bank.
English Heritage have recorded 5 of the stones, 2 still standing, as stones that once stood making up the circle.
If you visit any time soon (23/11/09) you’ll find the moor has been burnt back again giving an excellent view of the site, when the heather is in full flow it’s as high as the highest stones making not only finding the circle nigh on impossible to find but also defining the site very difficult.
Sites within the group and others within walking distance, click for details.
Ash Cabin Rock Shelter / Cave
Ash Cabin Hill Fort
New Hagg Standing Stone
Reddicar Clough Long Cist
The Headstone
Ash Cabin Rock Shelter / Cave
Ash Cabin Hill Fort
New Hagg Standing Stone
Reddicar Clough Long Cist
The Headstone