Every circle has a story

A great bank and ditch enclosing a ring of pale limestone slabs, most now lying flat.

At least five low stone circles and five alignments occupy a quiet slope below the northern Sperrins.

A vast henge enclosing the largest known megalithic stone circle, woven through the modern village of Avebury.

Two stone circles survive among tombs, cairns and ancient field walls in a partly peat-covered mountain landscape.

A broad ring of more than fifty stones reached along an atmospheric tree-lined path.

A remarkable complex of low stone circles, rows and cairns revealed beneath peat in the Sperrin foothills.

An intimate West Penwith circle of nineteen stones surrounding a striking leaning pillar.

A remote ring cairn whose slender outward-leaning stones form a dramatic crown on the moor.

A cross-shaped arrangement of Lewisian gneiss centred on a stone circle and chambered cairn.

An intimate circle set within a panoramic amphitheatre of Lakeland fells.

A low circle, the great Maen Mawr monolith and two delicate stone rows form one ritual complex above the River Tawe.

A remarkable Bronze Age cemetery where passage graves, ring cairns and circles of standing stones form one carefully ordered complex.

An extraordinary upland complex of at least nine small stone circles, alignments and cairns emerging from the Tyrone peat.

A compact circle accompanied by a stone row and cairn in the Fermanagh countryside.

Five deeply weathered sandstone uprights crown a Northumberland knoll close to the Scottish border.

Cornwall's smallest known stone circle is built from eight exceptionally large blocks of white quartz.

One of north-east Scotland's finest recumbent stone circles survives complete among the rolling hills west of Inverurie.

A vast Neolithic earthwork encloses a central stone-built tomb on the southern edge of Belfast.

Sixteen low stones form an almost perfect ring on wet open heath beneath the Preseli Hills.

Two large granite circles stand side by side in a remote ritual landscape on central Dartmoor.

The recorded site of a Fermanagh stone circle whose buried settings and seven Bronze Age burials were recovered during rescue excavation in 1975.

A restored recumbent stone circle enclosing the remains of a ring cairn and complex burial activity.

A vast oval ring watched over by the red sandstone monolith called Long Meg.

One circle within a remarkable moorland complex of rings, cairns, standing stones and earlier timber monuments.

Six paired burial chambers arranged around a ring on a hill overlooking the southern Manx coast.

A remote moorland circle on Stapeley Hill, looking west towards the Welsh border.

A compact ring of stones on a broad platform overlooking the Dee valley and Berwyn mountains.

A low limestone ring and two tangential rows survive almost hidden in the bog south of Lower Lough Erne.

A small, much-loved ring on Stanton Moor, accompanied by the outlying King Stone.

A substantial upland ring within a dense prehistoric landscape above the north Wales coast.

A monumental ring occupying the narrow land between the Lochs of Stenness and Harray.

Three monuments from different periods gathered around a ridge on the Oxfordshire–Warwickshire border.

One of Dartmoor's most dramatic circles, standing high above the North Teign valley.

A modern astronomically aligned circle showing that stone-circle building remains a living practice.

A major ceremonial complex whose surviving stones conceal an even larger pattern detected beneath the ground.

The most famous prehistoric monument in the world, but only one part of an extraordinary ceremonial landscape.

Four immense uprights survive from one of the earliest henge monuments in Britain and Ireland.

Also known as Swinside, a remarkably complete ring tucked beneath the fells of south-west Cumbria.

Two neighbouring circles at the heart of Kilmartin Glen's exceptionally rich prehistoric landscape.

Three neighbouring circles on Bodmin Moor, aligned across an open prehistoric landscape.

Nineteen carefully spaced stones form an almost perfect ring in the farmland of West Penwith.

A recumbent stone circle restored on a hill with wide views towards Lochnagar.