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Boscawen-Un – Stone circle with a leaning pillar in its interior. Boskednan – a partially restored stone circle near Boskednan, around 6 kilometres (4 miles) northwest of the town of Penzance. Craddock Moor – near Minions on Bodmin Moor, 800 m (1 ⁄ 2 mi) northwest of The Hurlers. Duloe – in the village of Duloe, 8 km (5 mi) from Looe.
The archetypical stone circle is an uncluttered enclosure, large enough to congregate inside, and composed of megalithic stones. Often similar structures are named 'stone circle', but these names are either historic, or incorrect. Examples of commonly misinterpreted stone circles are ring cairns, burial mounds, and kerb cairns.
The Tolmen near Scorhill. Scorhill is situated in a landscape of megalithic monuments and features in local stories about horses unwilling to pass through the circle. Some folklore links it to The Tolmen, [7] a stone with a large doughnut-shaped hole in it, overhanging a nearby stream. One story of the "faithless wives and fickle maidens" is of ...
False Kiva cave, 2012 False Kiva stone circle in Canyonlands National Park in Utah, United States. The False Kiva is a human-made stone circle of unknown origin in a cave in a remote area of Canyonlands National Park, which is located in U.S. state of Utah. It was closed by Canyonlands National Park rangers in early August 2018, as a result of ...
Gungywamp stone circle. Gungywamp / ˈ ɡ ʌ n dʒ i w ɒ m p / is an archaeological site in Groton, Connecticut, United States, consisting of artifacts dating from 2000-770 BC, a stone circle, and the remains of both Native American and colonial structures. Besides containing the remains of houses and storage structure, the Gungywamp site has ...
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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).
The tallest upright stone is around 1.9 m (6 ft 3 in) tall. The longest, lying in the south-western sector, is 3.2 m (10 ft) long. [2] The circle measures 89 m (292 ft) at its maximum diameter. It is not a true circle in formation; rather, it is an example of Alexander Thom's Type B 'flattened circle'. [11]