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England

Browse confirmed ancient monuments alongside clearly labelled related, reconstructed and modern circles.

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England · Derbyshire

Arbor Low

c. 2500 BC · Henge and stone circle

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

England · Wiltshire

Avebury

c. 2850–2200 BC · Henge and stone circles

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

England · Cornwall

Boscawen-un

c. 2500–1500 BC · Stone circle with central stone

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

England · Cumbria

Castlerigg

c. 3000 BC · Stone circle

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

England · Northumberland

Duddo Five Stones

Probably c. 3000–1500 BC · Stone circle

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

England · Cornwall

Duloe Stone Circle

c. 2500–1500 BC · Quartz stone circle

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

England · Devon

Grey Wethers

c. 2500–1000 BC · Pair of stone circles

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

England · Cumbria

Long Meg and Her Daughters

c. 1500 BC · Stone circle with outlier

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

England · Shropshire

Mitchell's Fold

c. 2000–1400 BC · Stone circle

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

England · Derbyshire

Nine Ladies

c. 2000–1500 BC · Stone circle with outlier

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

England · Oxfordshire

Rollright Stones

c. 3800–1500 BC · Stone circle and related monuments

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

England · Devon

Scorhill

c. 2000–1400 BC · Stone circle

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

England · Somerset

Stanton Drew

c. 3000–2000 BC · Three stone circles and avenues

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

England · Wiltshire

Stonehenge

c. 3000–1600 BC · Stone circle and ceremonial complex

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

England · Cumbria

Sunkenkirk

c. 2000–1500 BC · Stone circle

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

England · Cornwall

The Hurlers

c. 2000–1500 BC · Three stone circles

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

England · Cornwall

The Merry Maidens

c. 2500–1500 BC · Stone circle

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