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Celtic and Prehistoric stone circle sacred sites
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Brisworthy Stone Circle
Shaugh Prior, Devon, 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....
Gors Fawr stone ring, Mynachlog-ddu, Dyfed, England
Mynachlog-ddu, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom
On remote moorland in the shadow of the Preseli Mountains, sixteen low stones form a circle that has survived intact for over four thousand years....
Boscawen-un Stone Circle
St Buryan, Cornwall, 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....
Croft Moraig Stone Circle, Aberfeldy
Aberfeldy, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom
On the shores of Loch Tay, three concentric rings of stone mark a place held sacred for five millennia....
Kinnell stone circle, Killin
Killin, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom
In a quiet pasture east of Killin village, six standing stones have held their positions for perhaps four thousand years....
Castlerigg stone ring
Keswick, Cumbria, United Kingdom
On a plateau near Keswick in the Lake District, forty stones form one of Britain's earliest and most atmospheric prehistoric monuments....
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...
Drumskinny Stone Circle, Drumskinny, Ireland
County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Rising from drained bogland in County Fermanagh, Drumskinny preserves a complete Bronze Age ceremonial landscape: stone circle, kerbed cairn, and alignment, arranged with...
Drombeg Stone Circle, Glandore, Ireland
County Cork, West Cork, Ireland
On a gentle rise above the West Cork coast, seventeen stones form one of the finest examples of Ireland's distinctive Cork-Kerry axial stone circles....
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....
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....
Fernworthy Stone Circle
West Devon, England, United Kingdom
Hidden within a Dartmoor forest clearing, Fernworthy Stone Circle has stood for four thousand years....
Kenmare Stone Circle, Kenmare, Ireland
Kenmare, Kenmare Municipal District, Ireland
Fifteen stones form an egg-shaped ring in the heart of Kenmare town, enclosing a massive boulder-burial with a seven-ton capstone....
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....
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...
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....
Ballynoe Stone Circle, Downpatrick, Ireland
Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Rising from the green fields of County Down, Ballynoe Stone Circle holds five thousand years of accumulated silence....
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....
Moss Farm Road Stone Circle
Machrie, North Ayrshire, United Kingdom
On the western shore of the Isle of Arran, where a farm track leads into the ancient ceremonial moorland of Machrie, seven stones still stand in a broken ring....
Standing Stones of Stenness
Stenness, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
On the narrow isthmus between the salt Loch of Stenness and the freshwater Loch of Harray, four surviving megaliths stand where perhaps twelve once formed an ellipse....
Temple Wood Stone Circle
Kilmartin, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
In the heart of Kilmartin Glen, where western Scotland gathers its ancient monuments into one of Europe's densest prehistoric landscapes, Temple Wood Stone Circle stands...
Machrie Moor Stone Circles
Machrie, North Ayrshire, United Kingdom
On the western coast of the Isle of Arran, a walk of a mile and a half across open moorland brings you to six stone circles arranged on a broad, flat expanse beneath the...
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