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unusual facts about Stone circle


Stone circle

"Megalithic" stone circles have also been discovered in village Shewa, Swabi in Pakistan as well.


Derwent Island House

In 1778 Joseph Pocklington bought the island (then known as Vicar's Island) and built a house, boathouse, fort and battery, and Druid circle folly on the land.

Mitchell's Fold

Mitchell's Fold (sometimes called Medgel's Fold or Madges Pinfold) is a Bronze Age stone circle in South-West Shropshire, located near the small village of White Grit on dry heathland at the south-west end of Stapeley Hill in the civil parish of Chirbury with Brompton, at a height of 1083 ft (330m) o.d.

Sighthill, Glasgow

The Sighthill Park hosts the first astronomically aligned stone circle built in Great Britain for 3,000 years, by the Glasgow Parks Department Astronomy Project guided by Duncan Lunan.


see also

Brochtorff Circle

The Brochtorff Circle at Xagħra, one of possibly two stone circles at Xagħra, but also more simply known without distinction, as the Xagħra Stone Circle, is an underground Neolithic burial complex, situated in Xagħra on the Maltese island of Gozo.

Swinside

In the Early Modern period, local folklore about the stones held that they had once been used in the construction of a church, but that the Devil continually thwarted these plans, creating the stone circle in the process.

Xagħra Stone Circle

The Xagħra Stone Circle, also known as the Brochtorff Circle since there may be two Circles at Xagħra, is an underground funerary complex, situated in Xagħra on the Maltese island of Gozo.