stone circle

The large stone circle is surrounded by a prehistoric ditch.

Stone circle.

Stone circle.

Stone circle.

Steve at one of the stones.

Stone circle.

Stone circle.

Some of the village buildings inside the large stone circle.

Map showing all the major sites at Avebury.

The Castlerigg Stone Circle, one of the oldest in Britain, was created during the Neolithic period (around 3000 BC). It is a large circle with 38 stones. Its dramatic location, on the top of a low hill with views to other hills, is in the Lake District near Keswick. We visited this stone circle...

Cornwall has a large number of prehistoric sites - ancient villages, stone circles, dolmen (called quoits), fogou. I have listed the best of them below for two parts of Cornwall - Penwith and Bodmin's Moor. A Google Map at the end of the article shows the locations. Penwith, the western tip of...

Steve with the stones,

Walk from Men-en-Tol to this stone circle.

Three stone circles on Bodmin Moor.

Arrive by car or bus.

There are other standing stones and circles nearby.

It is also called Dawn's Men.

Stones are not large but setting is beautiful.

A circle of 19 standing stones.

The stone circle is easy to find on the Penwith peninsula.