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Swinside stone circle, in the Lake District, England, which megalithic specialist Aubrey Burl called "the loveliest of all the circles" in north-western Europe. [1]The stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany are a megalithic tradition of monuments consisting of standing stones arranged in rings.
Aubrey Burl's gazetteer lists 1,303 stone circles in Britain, Ireland and Brittany ( France).Most of these are found in Scotland, with 508 sites recorded. There are 343 on the island of Ireland; 316 in England; 81 in Wales; 49 in Brittany (France); and 6 in the Channel Isles.
Avebury (/ ˈ eɪ v b ər i /) is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England.One of the best-known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world.
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 ...
Castlerigg Stone Circle (alternatively Keswick Carles, or Carles) [3] [4] is situated on a prominent hill to the east of Keswick, in the Lake District National Park, North West England. [5] 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 from approximately ...
Stonehenge is one of about 1,300 ancient stone circles in existence, according to the British Museum. Researchers think the site’s stones were shaped by hand tools and erected with winch and ...
Similarities between stone circles in Scotland and Stonehenge, located in Wiltshire on the southern edge of England’s Salisbury Plain, add to a growing collection of clues showing there was ...
Swinside, which is also known as Sunkenkirk and Swineshead, [1] is a stone circle lying beside Swinside Fell, part of Black Combe in southern Cumbria, North West England.One of around 1,300 recorded stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, it was constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that lasted from 3,300 to 900 BC, during what archaeologists categorise as the Late Neolithic ...