Talk:Nine Stones Close

burl as a reference
being a local and frequent visitor of derbyshire's ancient sites i am surprised by almost every statement attributed to Burl, 2000. for one thing i have personally visited more thab a dozen stone circles in derbyshire so the claim of 'five or six' makes very little sense, and i know anecdotes arent references but i know from physically visiting the sites that the burl reference is nonsense. will try to find actual references to add though CronzOMarley (talk) 05:40, 7 April 2022 (UTC)


 * also claims the Bull Ring as a stone circle - this is clearly not true as the Bull Ring is solely an earthwork CronzOMarley (talk) 05:42, 7 April 2022 (UTC)


 * The Bull Ring is just an earthwork now, but I believe there was once a henge at the site, with at least one stone still standing in the 18th century. Not sure what Burl's criteria are (and I don't have the book). Dave.Dunford (talk) 08:39, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

You may be interpreting ring-cairns as stone circles (because they do look like, well, circles of stone). The article already mentions that Derbyshire's many ring-cairns can easily be mistaken for stone circles. Midnightblueowl (talk) 10:55, 21 December 2022 (UTC)