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Arbor Low is a Neolithic henge monument in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England. Arbor Low is in the White Peak area of the Peak District: the White Peak is a Carboniferous Limestone plateau lying between approximately 200and OD. The site is private property, accessible through the courtesy of the owner, and is managed by the Peak District National Park Authority. As of February 2017, an entrance fee of £1 per adult is requested by the landowner. Children can enter free of charge.DescriptionArbor Low consists of about 50 large limestone blocks, quarried from a local site, which form an egg-shaped circle, with monoliths at the entrances, and possibly a portal stone at the south entrance. There is also a large pit at the north entrance, which possibly contained a stone. Some of the stones are broken; some of these fragments may originally have been joined together, such that there were originally between 41 and 43 stones. The stones range from 1.6to tall, with the monoliths being between 2.6and.In the centre lie seven smaller blocks, which form a cove.One stone is partially upright; the rest are all lying down. Although it is frequently stated that the stones have never stood upright, it is possible that they had originally been set upright in shallow stone holes.The stones are surrounded by an oval earthen bank, approximately 90by at the outside edges and high, with an interior ditch being about 2 m deep and between 7and wide. There are two causeway entrances breaching both the bank and ditch; the north-west one is wide, and the south-south-east one is wide. Within the bank lies an inner platform 52by in area.