I spent several pleasant hours yesterday afternoon wandering around the Eastern Moors patch in that warm breeze.
Meandering between the Upper Res and the B6054 i came across a pile of stones i hadn’t visited before.
Wasn’t on the OS map. Nothing obvious via Google. I messaged Craig R – the oracle and a fellow ranger at 1534hrs sending him a photo, a pin drop, and a message
By 1546hrs he had yielded the fruit – and the year and page number of the relevant Clarion Rambler. 1947-48. Page 83. Which considering there are 63 years of CR books and many exceed 150 pages that’s quite some reply time !!!
‘On the left, near the Barbrook Reservoir, a now disappearing cairn was built, so i’m told before 1908, by George Herrington (Robin Hood, Baslow) and J.W. Stone, Duke’s gamekeeper, (one or both), out of an old four-sided sheep lea-shelter wall (“+”) and possibly in memore of a Sheffield herbalist, George Hodkin (74), who, going this way from Owler Bar in Dec., 1887, to Froggatt, lost his life near here, and was not found for several months.’
-Clarion Rambler 1947-48
Thanks Craig 👍
