You should be standing near the northern-most tip of Carsington Water. The village of Hopton is nearby, behind the trees on the far side of the main road.
It was on farmland close to Hopton in 1953 that the oldest ‘made’ object to have been found in Derbyshire was discovered – subsequently named The Hopton Hand Axe.
Comparing this hand axe to similar ‘ovate’ hand axes (ovate referring the ovoid, or egg-like shape), the most recent advice is that this tool could be up to 350,000 years old. Tools like this are more commonly found in the south of England, which didn’t get covered by ice sheets during the ice ages.