Earthwatcher's photos with the keyword: Carl Wark

The top slabs of the old packhorse bridge over the Burbage Brook, with the hillfort of Carl Wark in the background.

Carl Wark, viewed from Burbage Edge. All the rocks in the photo are formed from the Chatsworth Grit (Namurian). The isolated tors of Mother Cap Stone and Over Owler Tor are in the middle distance. The radio mast is on Sir William Hill, capped by Kinderscout Grit.

The Burbage Valley with Carl Wark and Higger Tor viewed from Burbage Edge. The x2 vertical exaggeration brings out the geological and geomorphological features in the landscape.

The Burbage Valley with Carl Wark and Higger Tor viewed from Burbage Edge. The rocks are comprised of the Chatsworth Grit (Namurian). There has been extensive tree-felling here in the last couple of years, as can be seen in this and similar views. Here is the same plantation (from a different viewpoint) in 2007.

The Burbage Valley with Carl Wark and Higger Tor viewed from Burbage Edge. The rocks are comprised of the Chatsworth Grit (Namurian).

The Burbage Valley with Carl Wark and Higger Tor viewed from Burbage Edge. The rocks are comprised of the Chatsworth Grit (Namurian). The photo is composed from five portrait-style images stitched together using Photoshop automatic panorama software. The x2 vertical exaggeration brings out the geological and geomorphological features in the landscape.

The Burbage Valley with Carl Wark and Higger Tor viewed from Burbage Edge. The rocks are comprised of the Chatsworth Grit (Namurian). The photo is composed from five portrait-style images stitched together using Photoshop automatic panorama software.

Looking up the hollow way towards the eastern face of Carl Wark

Looking up the hollow way towards the eastern face of Carl Wark

Looking up the hollow way towards the eastern face of Carl Wark

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. [?]

The south side of the Carl Wark hill fort is a natural escarpment edge of the Chatsworth/Rivelin Grit, which has been enhanced by strategic placement of gritstone boulders to form low walls and ramparts.

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.

The west rampart of the Carl Wark hill fort is comprised of an earth and rubble embankment, faced with gritstone boulders.