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Long Meg and Her Daughters stone ring
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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
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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...

Nine Stones Close Stone Circle, Youlgreave
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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