This is an incomplete photographic list of stone circles. See also Aboriginal stone arrangement Stone circles in Australia are sometimes revered as sacred...
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Senegambian stone circles (French: Cercles mégalithiques de Sénégambie), or the Wassu stone circles, are groups of megalithic stone circles located in...
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form of henge. Examples of true stone circles include Cumbrian circles, henges with inner stones (such as Avebury), and Cornish stone circles. Stone circles...
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Drew stone circles are just outside the village of Stanton Drew in the English county of Somerset. The largest stone circle is the Great Circle, 113 metres...
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North West England. It is one of around 1,300 stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that lasted...
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Stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany List of stone circles in Dumfries and Galloway List of stone circles "Canmore Advanced Search: Stone Circle:...
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a group of three stone circles in the civil parish of St Cleer, Cornwall, England, UK. The site is half-a-mile (0.8 km) west of the village of Minions...
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Birkrigg stone circle (also known as the Druid's Temple or Druids' Circle) is a Bronze Age stone circle on Birkrigg Common, two miles south of Ulverston...
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in line with other big Bodmin Moor circles. Reverend A. H. Malan discovered the circle in 1906 when only three stones remained standing. Local farmers supplied...
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The stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany are a megalithic tradition of monuments consisting of standing stones arranged in rings. These were...
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number of other monuments nearby, including a multiple stone circle and some boulder burials. Stone circles are circular arrangements of standing stones, dating...
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a list of stone circles located in the Dumfries and Galloway council area. It is compiled from Aubrey Burl's 'County Gazetteer of the Stone Circles in...
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The Ōyu Stone Circles (大湯環状列石, Ōyu Kanjyō Resseki) is a late Jōmon period (approx. 2,000 – 1,500 BC) archaeological site in the city of Kazuno, Akita...
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Arran, Scotland. Six stone circles are visible on the moor immediately east of the derelict Moss Farm. Some circles are formed of granite boulders, while...
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Drombeg stone circle (also known as The Druid's Altar) is a small axial stone circle located 2.4 km (1.5 mi) east of Glandore, County Cork, Ireland. Although...
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around 1,300 recorded stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany. Stone circles are circular arrangements of standing stones, dating from the late...
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A stone circle is a ring of standing stones. Stone circle may also refer to: Stone circle (Iron Age) Stone circles (Hong Kong) Senegambian stone circles...
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Recumbent stone circles are found in Aberdeenshire in northeast Scotland. Their most striking characteristic is that in the general direction of south-southwest...
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analysis and the hut circle settlement at Stannon Down., Cornish Archaeology 17, 1978. Aubrey Burl (2005). A guide to the stone circles of Britain, Ireland...
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construction of many monuments during the Bronze Age, only two stone circles survive in this area, the other being Withypool Stone Circle. The Porlock circle is...
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Burnmoor Stone Circles are a group of five different approximately 4000-year-old stone circles in Cumbria. They are around 1 mile north of the village of Boot...
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largest on the mainland of Scotland. It is similar in design to the stone circles of Cumbria, and is considered to be an outlier of this group. Its south-westerly...
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consider axial five-stone circles and axial multiple-stone circles separately – this list is of multiple-stone circles, those with seven stones or more. They...
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axial stone circles may have followed the design. Whilst cremated remains have been found at some sites, the precise function of these circles is not...
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with five stones, listed here, and axial multiple-stone circles, with seven stones or more, listed at List of axial multiple-stone circles. Dating from...
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Grange stone circle (Irish: Lios na Gráinsí, meaning 'Fort of the Grange') is a stone circle in County Limerick, Ireland. It is located 300m west of Lough...
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top of the northernmost stone there are three cupmarks. The stone circle is one of the more westerly examples of a large number of stone circles to be...
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"Cork–Kerry stone circles" and the crucial stone became the "axial stone" rather than the recumbent stone – from the centre of the circle this stone marks the...
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Avebury (redirect from Avebury stone circle)
henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England. One of the best-known prehistoric sites...
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sites. List of axial multiple-stone circles lists the sites classified as "stone circle – multiple-stone" and likewise List of axial five-stone circles for...
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