Peak Experience

Who built the henges?

Nearly 6,000 years ago the first Peak District farmers created our oldest monuments.  Nomadic families worked together to construct massive stone burial mounds and henges where they would gather for rituals and ceremonies in the New Stone Age (or Neolithic).  Then, about 4,000 years ago, the scale changed. Archaeologists find large numbers of small burials and stone circles from this time.  Here Bronze Age families celebrated life, death and the seasons.  Many are near to small fields that were farmed until the Iron Age, about 2,500 years ago.

a picture of froggat A picture of pike low burial barrow A picture of the first farmers tomb