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Megalithic structure sacred places in England, United Kingdom
Explore 22 sacred places classified as megalithic structure in England, United Kingdom.
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Avebury
Avebury, England, United Kingdom
Avebury surrounds you rather than keeping you at a distance. Unlike its famous neighbor Stonehenge, this vast Neolithic monument invites you to walk among its massive...
Boscawen-un Stone Circle
St Buryan, England, United Kingdom
In the fields near St Buryan in Cornwall, nineteen granite stones form an ellipse around a leaning central pillar bearing axe carvings found nowhere else in Britain....
Brisworthy Stone Circle
Shaugh Prior, England, United Kingdom
On the windswept heights of Ringmoor Down, twenty-four weathered granite stones mark a space where Bronze Age communities gathered four thousand years ago....
Carwynnen Quoit
Camborne, England, United Kingdom
Near Camborne in Cornwall, a ten-ton capstone once again rests on its supporting pillars, restored in 2014 after lying collapsed for nearly five decades....
Castlerigg stone ring
Keswick, England, United Kingdom
On a plateau near Keswick in the Lake District, forty stones form one of Britain's earliest and most atmospheric prehistoric monuments....
Chun Quoit
Bojewyan, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the West Penwith moorland, Chun Quoit is Cornwall's best-preserved Neolithic chambered tomb....
Devil’s Quoits
West Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
In the gravel lands of the Thames Valley, a stone circle has risen again. The Devil's Quoits at Stanton Harcourt was built between 2900 and 2600 BC, a henge and stone...
Duddo Five Stones, Duddo
Duddo, England, United Kingdom
Five ancient stones stand on a windswept knoll above the River Tweed, their surfaces grooved by four thousand years of weather into forms that seem almost alive....
Duloe Stone Circle
Tredinnick, England, United Kingdom
Eight quartz stones rise from a Cornish field, their whiteness still luminous after four millennia....
Fernworthy Stone Circle
West Devon, England, United Kingdom
Hidden within a Dartmoor forest clearing, Fernworthy Stone Circle has stood for four thousand years....
Hurlers Stone Circles
Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the windswept expanse of Bodmin Moor, the Hurlers comprise three stone circles aligned across the landscape like a question posed in granite....
Lanyon Quoit
Madron, England, United Kingdom
Lanyon Quoit rises from the West Penwith landscape like a statement from another age....
Long Meg and Her Daughters stone ring
Little Salkeld, England, United Kingdom
One of Britain's largest and oldest stone circles rises from the Eden Valley in Cumbria, its massive ring of granite daughters watched over by a single sandstone monolith...
Merry Maidens Stone Circle
Lamorna, England, United Kingdom
Rising from Cornish farmland near Land's End, the Merry Maidens stands as one of Britain's most complete Bronze Age stone circles....
Nine Ladies Stone Circle
Stanton in Peak, England, United Kingdom
Nine Ladies is an Early Bronze Age stone circle on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire, set within a much wider prehistoric landscape of barrows, cairns, and standing stones....
Nine Stones Close Stone Circle, Youlgreave
Derbyshire Dales, England, United Kingdom
Four weathered stones stand sentinel on Harthill Moor, remnants of a Bronze Age circle that once framed the setting Moon between the twin pillars of Robin Hood's Stride....
Rollright Stones
West Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Three prehistoric monuments spanning nearly two thousand years crown this Cotswold ridge: a stone circle, a solitary king, and whispering knights plotting in stone....
Rudston Monolith
Rudston, England, United Kingdom
Rising nearly eight meters from a Yorkshire churchyard, the Rudston Monolith has anchored human spiritual activity for over four millennia....
Swinside Stone Circle
Cumberland, England, United Kingdom
Hidden on a Cumbrian fellside, Swinside Stone Circle rises from the grass with a completeness that has earned it the title 'loveliest of all the circles' in north-western...
The Devils Arrows
Boroughbridge, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the fields west of Boroughbridge, the Devil's Arrows are among Britain's tallest and most mysterious standing stones....
Trethevy Quoit
St Cleer, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the fields of east Cornwall, Trethevy Quoit has stood for over five thousand years as one of Britain's finest portal dolmens....
Yockenthwaite stone circle
Buckden, England, United Kingdom
Hidden in the remote valley of Langstrothdale, the Yockenthwaite Stone Circle marks a four-thousand-year-old burial site where Bronze Age peoples laid their dead to rest....
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