Photos from summer solstice 2021, and see more from previous years on our page. Send us a photo if you visited an ancient site at the summer solstice, or if it was cloudy let us know how you got in in the forum. Wet Withens, sometimes known as Wet Withers (Old English for the wet land where willows grew), is the largest embanked stone circle in Derbyshire. Located on a slight slope, just above the 335m contour, to the west of an extensive cairnfield, the ten or eleven millstone grit uprights are placed at the inner edge of a continuous bank. The bank is approximately 31m by 29.5m internally in diameter, between 2m and 3m wide and 1m high and most unusually it has no entrances. In addition, a small cairn lies to the south-east of the centre.
Published on June 22, 2021 04:50
