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The Stanton 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 (371 ft) in diameter and the second largest stone circle in Britain (after Avebury ); it is considered to be one of the largest Neolithic monuments to have been built.
Stanton Drew is a small village and civil parish within the Chew Valley in Somerset, England, lying north of the Mendip Hills, 8 miles (13 km) south of Bristol, just off the A368 between Chelwood and Bishop Sutton in the area of the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority. Just outside the village are the prehistoric Stanton Drew stone ...
The Great Circle at Stanton Drew is one of the largest Neolithic monuments ever built, and the second largest stone circle in Britain (after Avebury). The date of construction is not known but is thought to be between 3000 and 2000 BCE , which places it in the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age . [ 5 ]
The Stanton Drew stone circles are made up of three circles of standing stones and associated outliers. The largest stone circle is the Great Circle, 113 metres (371 ft) in diameter and the second largest stone circle in Britain (after Avebury); it is considered to be one of the largest Neolithic monuments to have been built. [40]
Aubrey Burl lists 43 stone circles in Dumfries and Galloway: 15 in Dumfriesshire; 19 in Kirkcudbrightshire; and 9 in Wigtonshire. [5] The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland records 49 stone circles in the region. Of these 49, 24 are listed as 'possible'; one is an 18th-century construction; and a number have ...
In Somerset there are twelve sites, ranging from Neolithic sites such as Stanton Drew stone circles and Stoney Littleton Long Barrow through medieval castles (Farleigh Hungerford and Nunney Castles) and religious sites such as Cleeve and Muchelney Abbeys to the most recent, Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument, which was erected in 1720.
Their nearest analogies are the circles found on Dartmoor and Exmoor to the west, and the Stanton Drew stone circles to the north. [54] It is also possible that the stone circles were linked to a number of earthen henges erected in Dorset around the same period. [52] On average Dorset's earthen henges are four times larger than the stone ...
English: Two stone circles and two stone avenues at Stanton Drew, east of Court Farm Wikidata has entry Stanton Drew stone circles (Q17645436) with data related to this item. This is a photo of listed building number 1007911 .