Earthwatcher's photos with the keyword: geo:lat=53.329521

Originally posted for the Guesswhere UK group. This trough carved out of a single gritstone boulder is just outside the perimeter rampart of Carl Wark at Burbage, in the Peak District National Park, near Sheffield. Carl Wark is a spectacular, though somewhat enigmatic, hill fort - probably Iron-age, but with some later Roman usage. The stone trough is even more enigmatic. No-one really knows what it is, or its exact age. Some would like to think it is an Iron-age bath, but it is more likely to be more recent, possibly a horse trough in use during the time of millstone manufacture, of which there is much evidence around and about. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Another view of the gritstone trough just outside the rampart and south entrance to Carl Wark hill fort. Who made it? How old is it? What was it used for? No-one really knows for sure. Higger Tor is on the skyline to the right of centre.