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    540829; -5.313655 Machrie Moor Stone Circles is the collective name for six stone circles visible on Machrie Moor near the settlement of Machrie on the Isle...
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  • 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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  • Thumbnail for Stanton Drew stone circles
    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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    4500 years ago. These include the six Machrie Moor Stone Circles, and Moss Farm Road Stone Circle. The standing stones were dated back to approximately 2500...
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    during the Bronze Age, but only two stone circles survive in this area: the other is Porlock Stone Circle. The Withypool ring is located on the south-western...
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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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    Gigha, Argyll and Bute. Granny Kempock Stone, Gourock, Inverclyde Lochmaben Stone, Dumfries. Machrie Moor Stone Circles, Isle of Arran. Millport on Cumbrae...
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    include earthen henges, timber circles and stone circles. These latter circles are found in most areas of Britain where stone is available, with the exception...
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  • Thumbnail for Nine Stones Close
    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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    King's Men, a stone circle that was constructed in the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age; unusually, it has parallels to other circles located further...
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  • Thumbnail for Porlock Stone Circle
    during the Bronze Age, only two stone circles survive in this area, the other being Withypool Stone Circle. The Porlock circle is about 24 metres (79 feet)...
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  • Perthshire Kilmartin Glen, Argyll Machrie Moor, Arran Maeshowe, Orkney Ring of Brodgar, Orkney Skara Brae, Orkney Standing Stones of Stenness, Orkney Antonine...
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    The Sanctuary (category Stone Age sites in Wiltshire)
    stone circles known from the area surrounding Avebury: The Sanctuary, Winterbourne Bassett Stone Circle, Clatford Stone Circle, and Falkner's Circle....
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  • include earthen henges, timber circles, and stone circles. Stone circles are found in most areas of Britain where stone is available, with the exception...
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    Bay. There are numerous standing stones dating from prehistoric times, including six stone circles on Machrie Moor (Gaelic: Am Machaire). Pitchstone...
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  • Thumbnail for Fir Clump Stone Circle
    Stone Circle was a stone circle in Burderop Wood near Wroughton, Wiltshire, in South West England. The ring was part of a tradition of stone circle construction...
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  • include earthen henges, timber circles, and stone circles. Stone circles are found in most areas of Britain where stone is available, with the exception...
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  • timber circles before being changed to stone ones, or that the stone circles themselves included wooden elements. Knowledge of Winterbourne Bassett Stone Circle...
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  • Thumbnail for Moss Farm Road Stone Circle
    Road Stone Circle (or Machrie Moor 10) is the remains of a Bronze Age burial cairn, surrounded by a circle of stones. It is located near Machrie on the...
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    religious sites, with the stones perhaps having supernatural associations for those who built the circles. A number of these circles were built in the area...
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  • Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. The stone circle tradition was accompanied by the construction of timber circles and earthen henges, reflecting a growing...
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  • Thumbnail for Nine Stones, Winterbourne Abbas
    archaeologists speculate that the stones represented supernatural entities for the circle's builders. At least nine of these stone circles are known to have been...
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  • Er Lannic (category Stone circles in Europe)
    site of two stone circles, the southern of which is submerged. Gulf of Morbihan Gavrinis Burl, Aubrey (2005). A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain,...
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    Moor Divock sits to the northwest, Gunnerkeld Stone Circle to the north, and Great Asby Scar to the south. There is also a multitude of stone circles...
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  • of the Broome Stone Circle. All of these northern Wiltshire circles have been destroyed, although the vestiges of one survives: the stones at the Day House...
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    Kilmory Castle is incorporated into Meikle Kilmory Farm, Bute Machrie Moor Stone Circle, Arran Isle of Arran Blaeu Atlas. Arania Blaeu Atlas. Buthe Insula...
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    Ladies is a stone circle located on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire in the English East Midlands. The Nine Ladies is part of a tradition of stone circle construction...
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  • Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. The stone circle tradition was accompanied by the construction of timber circles and earthen henges, reflecting a growing...
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  • Thumbnail for Day House Lane Stone Circle
    Day House Lane Stone Circle, also known as Coate Stone Circle, is a stone circle near the hamlet of Coate, now on the southeastern edge of Swindon, in...
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  • promontory on the Isle of Arran Machrie Moor Stone Circles Remains of six stone circles of Bronze Age date Moss Farm Road Stone Circle The remains of a Bronze...
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