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Celtic and Prehistoric sacred sites in England, United Kingdom
Explore 26 Celtic and Prehistoric sacred places in England, United Kingdom, with mapped locations and detailed site guides.
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Adam and Eve Stones, Avebury
Beckhampton, England, United Kingdom
A mile from Avebury, two massive stones stand in a field that most visitors never reach....
Belas Knap Long Barrow
Tewkesbury, England, United Kingdom
On a Cotswold ridge, 5,800 years of presence wait in a grassy mound 178 feet long....
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...
Dragon Hill
Vale of White Horse, England, United Kingdom
Below Britain's oldest chalk figure, a small hill rises with a mystery at its summit. This is Dragon Hill, where legend says St George killed England's last dragon....
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...
Marlborough Mound
Marlborough, England, United Kingdom
In the grounds of Marlborough College stands a 19-meter mound that most visitors to Wiltshire never see....
Mên-an-Tol
Morvah, England, United Kingdom
On the West Penwith moor, three stones stand against the sky—but it is the middle stone that draws seekers from around the world....
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 Maidens stone ring, Cornwall
St. Columb Major, England, United Kingdom
On the high moorland of West Penwith, where Atlantic winds sweep across granite and gorse, the Nine Maidens stand in their ancient circle....
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....
Stanton Drew stone ring
Stanton Drew, England, United Kingdom
In a field outside a small Somerset village stands Britain's second largest stone circle. Few visitors know it exists....
Stonehenge
West Amesbury, England, United Kingdom
Stonehenge rises from Salisbury Plain as the most recognized prehistoric monument on Earth....
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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