You cannot spend long in the Peak without coming across something to take you back to the dawn of time. It might be the stone circle on Stanton Moor or a burial mound or the great hillfort at Mam Tor.

You might be visiting Caudwell’s Mill at Rowsley and notice a strip of strange-looking corn – it is prehistoric barley as used by the first farmers.

Perhaps you are looking at St Anne’s Well in Buxton and start to wonder how long this spring has been special, perhaps even before the Romans came? Is Saint Anne really an old water goddess once worshipped here?

Once you start thinking about these long ago Peak dwellers it is time to go to Buxton Museum where there are fascinating relics of the Stone Age and early metal objects found in the area.

Were these objects found by chance or by archaeologists carrying out excavations? There have been plenty of people fascinated by the secrets of the Peak’s early days and some of them were interesting characters themselves.