About Stone Circle
A stone circle is a circular alignment of standing stones. They are commonly found across Northern Europe and Great Britain and typically date from the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age eras, with most concentrations appearing from 3000 BC.
New images of Neolithic burial site near Inverness
... Other sites from the same period in history are close by, and include a Stone Circle at Torbreck and chambered cairn at Culduthel in Inverness...
Thousands welcome summer solstice at Stonehenge
... On the solstice, the sun rises behind the entrance to the Stone Circle, and rays of light are channelled into the centre of the monument...
Visitors can walk on rare coronation floor in socks
... At the centre of the medieval mosaic is a polished Stone Circle with a swirling pattern, surrounded by rings of designs in glass, marble and coloured stone, and this is where the coronation chair will be placed when King Charles is crowned on 6 May...
Nebra Sky Disc: British Museum to display world's 'oldest map of stars'
... " The original purpose of Stonehenge remains a mystery, but the Stone Circle built in about 2,500 BC...
Glastonbury fence-Jumper: It was, as a girl among boys over the top!'
... We went through some of the fields in the vicinity of the Stone Circle late in the night, and through some dense trees and came to a clearing in the vicinity of the first fence...
Glastonbury Festival: 50 Years Of Memories
... 2003: Ali Bird Blagging in the ballroom back in Lost vagueness, bottles of champagne, stay up all night, Stone Circle, sunrise...
2019 news: The alternative end-of-the-year-awards
... the winnersWhen the archaeologists began an investigation into a Stone Circle, found in rural Aberdeenshire, you thought you had old stumbled on a site that for thousands of years...
Cairngorms loch dropped to lowest level in '750 years'
... But four Western Isles sites have been radiocarbon dated to about 3640-3360 BC in the Neolithic period - before the erection of Stonehenge s Stone Circle...
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