Nine Stones Close, also known as the Grey Ladies, is a stone circle on Harthill Moor in Derbyshire in the English East Midlands. It is part of a tradition...
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England Nine Stones Close, a prehistoric monument in Derbyshire, England Ninestane Rig, a prehistoric monument in the Scottish Borders Boskednan stone circle...
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Ales Stenar, known in English as the Ale's Stones, is an ancient megalithic monument of Sweden. The stones are outlining a ship. Here we show the well-known...
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The Nine Stones, also known as the Devil's Nine Stones, the Nine Ladies, or Lady Williams and her Dog, is a stone circle located near to the village of...
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Stonehenge (redirect from Stone Henge)
standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones, held...
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Menhir (redirect from Standing stones)
ritual practice Cove (standing stones) – Tight rectangular group of stones Cromlech – Ring of standing stones Deer stone – Megaliths found largely in Siberia...
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The Callanish Stones (or "Callanish I": Scottish Gaelic: Clachan Chalanais or Tursachan Chalanais) are an arrangement of standing stones placed in a cruciform...
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Most of the stones are within the Breton municipality of Carnac, but some to the east are within neighboring La Trinité-sur-Mer. The stones were erected...
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Skara Brae (category Stone Age sites in Scotland)
astronomical and magical ceremonies at nearby Ring of Brodgar and the Standing Stones of Stenness. Graham and Anna Ritchie cast doubt on this interpretation noting...
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Small, spherical stones have been discovered. They were used as ball bearings for the vehicles that transported the enormous stone blocks used for the...
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cave. Nine Stones Close is a Bronze Age stone circle about 30m across, with four remaining upright stones about 2m high. Several original stones were removed...
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Megalith (redirect from Primitive stone monuments)
Carnac Stones in Brittany, France, consist of thousands of stones. Megalithic walls Also called Cyclopean walls Stone circles In most languages stone circles...
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Who serial The Stones of Blood (1978) featured several scenes taped at the Rollright Stones. The site was presented as a fictional stone circle in Cornwall...
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upright stones remain in place. A picture of the Stones of Stenness features on the cover of Van Morrison's album The Philosopher's Stone. The Odin stone is...
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Manchester Lane and The Chariot Way) passed close to the outcrop. Nearby is Nine Stones Close, a four-stone circle, and, at Cratcliffe Tor, a rock shelter...
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stone circles. A long barrow burial chamber has been found under the stones of The Cove. It is thought that this predates the erection of the stones by...
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smaller stone circles, such as Doll Tor and the Nine Stones Close, that are close to the limestone edge. Archaeologists have attributed the Nine Ladies...
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Carahunge (redirect from Army Stones)
separated standing stones. The site is rich with stone settings, burial cists and standing stones (menhirs). In total, 223 stones have been identified...
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henge monument at Avebury, the Rollright Stones, Castlerigg, and elements within the ring of standing stones at Stonehenge. Scattered examples exist from...
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known as the Nine Maidens or Nine Stones of Boskednan, although the original structure may have contained as many as 22 upright stones around its 69-metre...
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the circle's center. The stone circle originally consisted of seventeen closely spaced stones of which 13 survive. The stones are made from local sandstone...
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Each circle contains smaller clusters of stone, including standing stones surrounded by elongated stones in a radiating orientation, forming a sundial...
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filled with stones, or have raised stones in the positions of masts. The illusion of being ships has often been reinforced by larger stones at the ends...
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around the stones, caused by the large number of visitors to the monument, several smaller stones have 'appeared' next to some of the larger stones. Because...
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Moor in Cornwall, UK. The Nine Stones is an English Heritage managed property. It was restored in 1889 when only two stones remained standing. The circle...
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Barnenez (category Stone Age Europe)
Privately owned until the 1950s, the cairn was used as a quarry for paving stones. This activity, which threatened to destroy the monument, was only halted...
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Daniel Kreps)". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 26 October 2017. "Stones – No Filter – European tour | The Rolling Stones". The Rolling Stones. Archived from the...
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Knap of Howar (category Stone Age sites in Scotland)
to let out smoke. Though they now stand close to the shore, they would have originally lain inland. The stone walls of the buildings are preserved and...
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Avebury (redirect from Avebury stone circle)
thought that there were originally 98 sarsen standing stones, some weighing in excess of 40 tons. The stones varied in height from 3.6 metres (12 ft) to 4.2...
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the land underneath which the temples were buried figured that the large stones that were continually struck by workers' ploughs may also have had some...
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