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Photograph Name County Coordinates Type Age Aghanaglack: Fermanagh: court tomb (double): Annadorn Dolmen: Down: passage tomb [1]: Ardgroom: Cork: stone circle - Audleystown Court Tomb
The stone circle forms a pronounced oval measuring 13.3 by 9.5 metres. [5] Only five stones currently stand, but there could have been as many as thirteen. [5] The stones range in size from 2 to 2.7 metres. [1] In the centre is a dilapidated cairn. [5] A small slab, 60 centimetres high, is set on edge within the cairn. [1]
Rempstone stone circle – a damaged stone circle near Corfe Castle in Dorset. It is located next to the B3351 road on the Isle of Purbeck : grid reference SY994820 . The Nine Stones – A small nine stone circle near Winterbourne Abbas.
The stone circle surrounds a cairn with a diameter of 8.5 metres. [1] When 3 feet (1 metre) of peat was removed from the site in 1848, four holes were noticed, three grouped in an arc at the northwest, a fourth at the south-west. [2] Wood charcoal found in them suggests that they formed an earlier timber circle about 10 metres in diameter. [2]
The exedra would typically have an apsidal podium that supported the stone bench. The free-standing (open air) exedra, often supporting bronze portrait sculpture, is a familiar Hellenistic structure, [ 1 ] characteristically sited along sacred ways or in open places in sanctuaries, such as at Delos or Epidaurus .
The stone circle consists of two concentric ellipses. [2] The outer ring measures about 13.7 by 13.1 metres. [2] It contains 13 stones, of which eight are still standing and five have fallen. [1] The inner ring is a pronounced oval measuring 10.5 by 6.6 metres. [2] Only four stones remain in the inner circle, the tallest of which measures 2.1 ...
Circlestone are stone ruins in Arizona's Superstition Wilderness about 45 miles from Phoenix. The ruins are not a circular space of standing stones; however, like many standing stone monuments found elsewhere in the world it does have elements of construction that to some suggest it was built to track celestial events. The Circlestone structure ...
Stone circle - multiple-stone A distinctive form of stone circle found only in counties Cork and Kerry. It comprises a ring of free-standing stones, uneven in number (between 7 and 19) and symmetrically arranged so that one stone, the axial stone, is set directly opposite two stones, usually the tallest, marking the entrance to the circle.