The visit started with the dawn colours reflected in a gritstone pool that looks natural but could easily be a man-made feature. In other parts of the Peaks, on Stanage Edge for example, there are definitely carved pools that are inscribed with a number and I believe these were grouse shooting points dating to the time that the Dark Peak area was privately owned. May be this pool had a similar puprose?
Elsewhere on Balsow Edge are features which are more obviously manufactured including remnants of old millstones and some evidence of quarrying. I also picked out this rock which looks like it might have been carved into a water trough with some letters or numbers inscribed into the stone:
Standing alone on the moorland behind Balsow Edge is the Eagle Stone. There are few named stones dotted around the Peaks that have similar shapes including the Mother Cap Stone, the Salt Cellar, and the Ox Stones. Presumably the Eagle Stone resembles an eagle in some way...although I am hopeless at seeing these types of associations...
Perhaps a more obvious description is the anvil stone which sits right on the lip of Baslow Edge, shown below in mono and then later in the day as the sun was struggling to break free of the clouds:
There are a few partially worked millstones on Baslow Edge, some of which are more finished than others. This stone looks like it might have split in production and then abandoned:
At several points during the day I returned to the pool that I had captured at dawn repeating similar compositions as the light change during the day together with a few alternatives views:
The sun struggled against the cloud for the late afternoon golden hour with only the odd moment of brightness. These were some of the scenes with the first photograph below looking towards the light on Curbar Edge:
The very last shot of the day was back at the gritstone pool and the final bit of reflected light before dark:
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