Monument record 1606 - Standing stone at Ginclough 400m WSW Gin Clough Farm

<1> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Turner R C 1995 25702 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

Field visit (1995) by RC Turner: Large stone or glacial erratic by track to Cutlers Farm, Rainow Road.

<2> English Heritage, Various, Schedule Entry (Scheduled Ancient Monuments Amendment), 25702 (Scheduling Record). SCH2950.

The monument includes a Grade II Listed standing stone on the side of the hill above Hayles Clough in Rainow. The stone is a large gritstone glacial erratic cut away on two sides to create a square face on the east side. The stone stands 0.86m high and is 0.72m wide on the east face and 0.9m deep at the base where it is widest. It stands 2.5m from the B5470 on the south side of the road.

The standing stone at Ginclough survives well and is in its original position. It forms part of a relict Bronze Age landscape on the side of the hill, including a tumulus 400m to the north east and another 1000m to the south west.

<3> Peak District National Park Archaeology Service, Various, Scheduled Ancient Monument Monitoring Form (Unpublished Document). SCH4989.

This standing stone was visited twice in 2011 and 2014 as part of a programme of scheduled monument monitoring undertaken by Peak District National Park. Comments made are that it stands in grassland and that no threat to its condition was observed.