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As of 1968, the stone circle was still known as the "Devil's Nine Stones". [43] In 1966, a man from Winterborne St Martin claimed that the stones were the Devil, his wife, and his children. [44] There are many ancient sites across Britain with names that associate them with the Devil. [45]
The Calanais Stones consist of a stone circle of thirteen stones with a monolith near the middle. Five rows of standing stones connect to this circle. Two long rows of stones running almost parallel to each other from the stone circle to the north-northeast form a kind of avenue .
stone circle - -Bohonagh: Cork: stone circle - Brownshill Dolmen: Carlow-portal tomb: 5000–6000 years -Carnfree: Roscommon-cairns, standing stones - Carrigagulla: Cork-stone circles, stone rows - Carrowkeel Tombs: Sligo
Carnalridge, Standing stone: the White Wife, grid ref: C8475 3872 Carnanbane , Court tomb , grid ref: C6709 0585 Carnanbane (on boundary with Magheramore ), Stone cross (termon cross associated with Banagher Church, grid ref: C6746 0655
Free-standing inside the burial chamber is a smooth pillar of blueschist, [4] [5] a metamorphic rock, some 2 m (6.6 ft) high, with a very rounded shape. Bryn Celli Ddu 'Pattern Stone' replica. Beyond the back wall of the chamber, in a location that would once have been within the mound, is a replica of the 'Pattern Stone'.
The Nine 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 that spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages, over a period between 3300 and 900 BCE.
The second last standing stone was removed in 1914, and used as a lintel. From the base the stone circle at Steinacleit archaeological site is clearly visible to the north east. The Callanish standing stones are 20 miles (30 kilometres) southwest.
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 of stone circle construction that spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages, over a period between 3300 and 900 BCE.