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Drove Cottage Henge, Heavily damaged Neolithic henge; Durrington Walls, Neolithic Class II henge. King Arthur's Round Table, Neolithic Class II henge. Maumbury Rings, Neolithic henge later used as a Roman amphitheatre. Mayburgh Henge, Neolithic henge with standing stones. Priddy Circles, four stone circles and two round barrows; Ring of Brodgar ...
Like henges, the stone circles are almost exclusively found in the British Isles. The distribution of the stone circles is distinctive as it is broader than that of the henges. [17] They are found in most areas of Britain where stone is available, except the island's south-eastern corner. [17]
The Stripple stones (or Stripple stones circle) is a henge and stone circle located on the south slope of Hawk's Tor, Blisland, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north northeast of Bodmin on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England, UK.
Long Meg and Her Daughters is a Neolithic stone circle situated north-east of Penrith near Little Salkeld in Cumbria, North West England.One of around 1,300 stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, it was constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that emerged during Neolithic, and continued into the Early Bronze Age (circa 3200 - 2500BC).
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 ...
Stone circles in England, circular alignments of standing stones. They are commonly found across Northern Europe and Great Britain, and typically date from the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age eras, with most concentrations appearing from 3000 BC. England portal
Swinside stone circle, Cumbria, England Bryn Cader Faner, North Wales, a Welsh ring cairn / tumulus often misinterpreted as a stone circle A stone circle is a ring of megalithic standing stones . Most are found in Northwestern Europe – especially Stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany – and typically date from the Late Neolithic ...
Henges sometimes, but by no means always, featured stone or timber circles, and circle henge is sometimes used to describe these structures. The three largest stone circles in Britain ( Avebury , the Great Circle at Stanton Drew stone circles , and the Ring of Brodgar ) are each within a henge.