Sacred geography Arbor Low Stone Circle & Gib Hill Barrow
Arbor Low is located near Parsley Hay in the Peak District National Park, England
It is surrounded by many other sacred structures barrows, cairns, standing stones,
caves, and to the east, other stone circles including the tiny Doll Tor
The sky and its constellations were once mapped onto the earth as above so below
And the shape of each structure symbolised the type of sky feature being described
planet or constellation including the Signs of the Zodiac
The cup and ring marks on rocks were both a star map and a literal map
of where sites were to be found
The nearby Ashover cup and ring marks, show an important site
surrounded by rings within a constellation of stars
Arbor Low itself has massive earthworks - nearly 7 foot high and nearly 300 foot round.
There are two causeway entrances breaching both the bank and ditch.
Some of the single marker stones are nearly 10 foot high.
One stone is partially upright; the rest are all lying flat.
Some of the other stones were over 6 foot high before they were buried by vegetation.
Few henge monuments in the British Isles are as well preserved
Arbor Low was an exceptionally important site spiritually,
a considerable number of ley lines meet here.
The whole structure is based on the ‘Cosmic Egg’, having a sacred centre
[Mother and Father]. And round the rim the Signs of the Zodiac
Then the symbolic Planets [of which there were 7] and the Elements
Earth, Water, Air, Fire and then Aether.
Thus, like The Hope valley site, it was mapping a momentous event
using a horoscope like chart. ‘When these alignments occur, this event will happen’.
In effect, a monument used in divination
Arbor Low Stone Circle & Gib Hill Barrow
Can be found on Long Rake, Monyash, Peak District National Park, Bakewell DE45 1JS England.
The site is privately owned but managed by English Heritage. It is one of the best preserved
prehistoric monuments in Britain and was one of the first to be awarded statutory protection.
The site was used as recently as the Bronze Age during which time the outer bank was rebuilt.
From above, it looks as if the megaliths were positioned horizontally in a radiating pattern
resembling a clock face. It is “the focus of many modern day pagan ceremonies”