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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Stone circle
		Prehistoric stone circles are found as megalithic monuments in the British Isles, with two confirmed examples in Brittany on the island of Er Lannic and two more suggested at Carnac.
		Stone circles have often been associated with the druids, but they were abandoned long before druidism came to Britain, and there is no evidence that they were ever used by the druids.
		Similar circles were used for popular assemblies in Denmark until the 16th century, and in Vad parish in västergötland, the village assemblies were held in a stone circle until the 19th century.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Stone-circle (2334 words)

	Stone circle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Swinside stone circle, in the Lake District, England.
		Prehistoric stone circles are found as megalithic monuments in the British Isles, with two confirmed examples in Brittany on the island of Er Lannic and two more suggested at Carnac.
		Stone circles have often been associated with the druids, but they were abandoned long before druidism came to Britain, and there is no evidence that they were ever used by the druids.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stone_circle (933 words)

	Stone Circle of Britain
		Today there is a resurgence of interest among British people in the sacred nature of the stone circles and the landscape in which they lie, and many are seeking to reconnect with the history and culture of their ancestors.
		Stones were often aligned with the rising or setting of the sun or moon at certain times of the year, indicating concepts of fertility and the cycle of life.
		Very little is known of the stone circles and their use from the end of the circle-building era through the early centuries of the first millennium A.D. The Roman invasion of the first century brought recorded history to the British Isles, but nothing was written about the stone circles.
	www.sacredland.org /world_sites_pages/Stone_Circles.html (2685 words)

	Stone circle (Iron Age) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They should not be confused with the Stone circles of the Bronze Age and Britain.
		Similar circles were used for popular assemblies in Denmark until the 16th century, and in Vad parish in västergötland, the village assemblies were held in a stone circle until the 19th century.
		Even if knowledge that the stone circles were graves was later lost, it was still fresh in the 13th century as testify these lines by Snorri Sturluson in the introduction of the Heimskringla:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stone_circle_(Iron_Age) (354 words)

	Loanhead Stone Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		These circles are side by side and assumed that the cremation circle was created before the ring cairn.
		The stone has also cracked down the center, so that is sits as two pieces between it's stones.
		The circles are at the top of a hill with a beautiful view of the surrounding area.
	www.darkisle.com /l/loanhead/loanhead.html (94 words)

	Stanton Drew Stone Circle: New Geophysical Survey Evidence
		The most persistent tale is that the stones represent the members of a wedding party and its musicians, lured by the Devil to celebrate on the Sabbath and thus becoming petrified in their revels.
		Stone circles such as those here are known to date broadly to the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age (approx 3000-2000 BC), and many examples are known, mostly from western and northern Britain.
		The circles are believed to have played an important part in contemporary social and religious life, and there is evidence that some were aligned with major events of the solar and lunar calendar.
	www.eng-h.gov.uk /archaeometry/StantonDrew (1306 words)

	Stone Circles of The Gambia
		Stone circles of many types are found throughout Europe and the Near East, though nowhere is there so large a concentration as found on the north bank of the river Gambia.
		The circles are said to be built around mounds of kings and chiefs, in the same way as royal persons were buried in the ancient empire of Ghana.
		AF and AC meet at the same stone in circle I. An alignment through the eastern edges of circles VIII and VII extends northerly to C and cuts BG in the southwest at D and AF at E. Both D and E are rightangles.
	home3.inet.tele.dk /mcamara/stones.html (1219 words)

	Stone Monument Legends
		The Odin stone, long the favorite trysting-place in summer twilights of Orkney lovers, was demolished in 1814 by a sacrilegious farmer, who used its material to assist him in the erection of a cowhouse.
		The stone was soon in its place, and the horse and cart returned home, and from that moment the farmer's affairs began to improve, till in a short time he was a richer and more substantial man than he had ever been before.
		Thus the stones are called "the Adam's Dance," or "the Stone Dance." The fourteen stones in the circle were the male and female dancers.
	www.pitt.edu /~dash/monuments.html (4801 words)

	Britannia: Stonehenge
		The stones used in that first circle are believed to be from the Prescelly Mountains, located roughly 240 miles away, at the southwestern tip of Wales.
		Modern theories speculate that the stones were dragged by roller and sledge from the inland mountains to the headwaters of Milford Haven.
		By this time, though, the stones had been standing for 2,000 years, and were, perhaps, already in a ruined condition.
	www.britannia.com /history/h7.html (1393 words)

	Avebury stone circle - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Avebury stone circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This earthwork and an outer ring of stones surround the inner circles.
		The stones vary in size from 1.5 m/5 ft to 5.5 m/18 ft high and 1 m/3 ft to 3.65 m/12 ft broad.
		The site was acquired by the National Trust in 1943, and the area now protected includes the majority of the stone circles, Windmill Hill, and the manor farm.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Avebury+stone+circle (301 words)

	Stone Circles of Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The area of this stone circle and the field it stands on is rather large, but the stones themselves are pretty much shapeless, unlike Stonehenge.
		Scottish Remains (the Orcadians are NOT Scots) -- plenty of minor but picturesque stone circles (or chambered tombs that have lost their earthen covering, as a lot of the so-called stone circles are), but they are almost impossible to find!--way off the beaten track (well, the narrow tarmacked roads that replaced the beaten tracks).
		Worms did not topple the stones, they were laid flat to begin with [people disagree about this, but why else are these stone circles called 'recumbent' except for the fact that they are?].
	www.britcastles.com /circles/circles.htm (2640 words)

	Castlerigg Stone Circle, Keswick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Castlerigg Stone Circle is one of the most visually impressive prehistoric monuments in Britain, and is the most visited stone circle in Cumbria.
		The stone circle is on the level top of a low hill with views across to Skiddaw, Blencathra and Lonscale Fell.
		The stone circle is on land owned by the National Trust, and maintained by English Heritage.
	www.visitcumbria.com /kes/casstone.htm (182 words)

	The Ring of Brodgar, Stenness, Orkney
		This stone circle, in the West Mainland parish of Stenness, stands on an westward-sloping plateau on the Ness o' Brodgar - a thin strip of land between the Harray and Stenness lochs.
		The stone circle was taken into state care in 1906 and two years later most of the fallen stones were placed back in their original sockets.
		The stone in question (the third stone to the north of the present day entrance) is now a broken stump but the runic graffiti is still clearly visible.
	www.orkneyjar.com /history/brodgar (1085 words)

	Crestonehenge: Stone Circle & Labyrinth in Crestone, Colorado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Crestonehenge: Stone Circle and Labyrinth in Crestone, Colorado
		I used some of the extra stones to make flanking trilitons at the end of the pathway leading to the stone circle.
		I moved the thin standing stone from the center of the circle to a position outside the circle where it will align with the summer solstice sunrise.
	www.efn.org /~kcp/circ1.html (300 words)

	Castlerigg Stone Circle, Cumbria
		The circle consists of 38 stones of variable sizes and shapes; they are all un-hewn boulders, some standing over 5 feet in height, although some have fallen in the 5000 years since their erection.
		The stone circle has been tenuously dated at 3200BC, although there is always a buffer zone of a couple of hundred years when trying to date stone circles without accompanying archaeology.
		Directions:The circle is signposted from Keswick to the South of the A66.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /majorsites/castlerigg.html (448 words)

	Torhousekie Stone Circle Wigtownshire
		The stones are height graded to the ESE and the stone spacing is also graded, with the smallest gaps at the NW and the largest at the SE.
		The two tallest stones of the SE quadrant (6and7), are particularly prominent, they are much less rounded than the other circle stones and stone 7 has a number of unusual surface features, some with quartz inclusions.
		Although referred to as a "central construction" this three stone row is not actually at the centre of the ring, because of the flattening of the circle it stands nearer to the stones of the SE quadrant.
	www.megalithics.com /scotland/torhous/torhmain.htm (526 words)

	Avebury Henge and Stone Circle
		The henge is contemporary with the outer stone circle and would have been a magnificent stark white when in use.
		His skeleton was discovered under one of the stones on the southern side of the main circle when stones were being reerected earlier this century.
		The stones alternate in shape between wide angular shapes and tall thinner ones and many believe this to be female and male representations.
	freespace.virgin.net /ancient.ways/avebury.htm (1023 words)

	Stone Circle
		The circle itself symbolizes the cycle of life and death, the turning of the year's seasons, the mystery of the horizon, the opening of the womb.
		They probably made stone circles for many reasons beyond our knowledge, but we can't deny that the functions they now serve include a connection to our past, and a sense that some monumental design was at work.
		This collection of stones, the circle, the portal, and the petroglyphs within, is a memorial to threatened and endangered plants and animals.
	www.powellstudios.com /stonecircle.html (583 words)

	Callanish Stone Circle, Lewis, Outer Hebrides
		The tall, thin, almost sharp stones are a powerful sight overlooking the desolate moorland of the Isle of Lewis.
		The central circle consists of 13 stones that surround a central megaith, 15 feet in height, and a small cairn that was probably a later addition to the site.
		Twelve stones remain of what was probably a double circle 200 yards to the SE of Callanish II up on a ridge close to the main road.
	freespace.virgin.net /ancient.ways/callanis.htm (750 words)

	Stones of England - Castlerigg stone circle
		This magnificent circle, one of the earliest in Britain, is crowned by the Lake District's mountains
		Thirty-eight stones are placed in an slightly oval shape of 30m (100ft) in diameter; a further 10 small stones are arranged as a rectangular enclosure on the south-east side of the ring: this is a feature unique to Castlerigg, nothing similar being present in other stone circles.
		The largest stone of the circle, not far from the enclosure, is 2.5m (8ft 3in) high and it weighs about 16 tons: most of the others, much smaller, are 1 to 1.5m (3-5ft) high.
	www.stonepages.com /england/castlerigg.html (392 words)

	Stone Circle - Sonoran Sunrise Grove, ADF
		The Stone Circle was consecrated on the night before Imbolc in 2002.
		The Circle is aligned with Equinox East, based on sightings of the sunrise on both the Autumnal Equinox of 2001 and the Spring Equinox of 2002.
		Before the Circle was built, owners Kirk Thomas and Steve Sampson went on a trip to Ireland, England, Cornwall and Wales to collect small stones from Neolithic and other sacred, mythic and historic sites for this Circle.
	www.ssg-adf.org /circle.htm (1153 words)

	Lochbuie stone circle, Mull, Scotland
		Lochbuie stone circle - a description of the stone circle at Lochbuie, Mull, and its astronomical orientations.
		This is a small and well preserved stone circle set on the beautiful southern coast of Mull and overlooked by spectacular Ben Buie.
		It is natural to assume that these stones mark the direction in which to look from a position in the centre of the circle.
	www.stonesofwonder.com /lochbuic.htm (349 words)

	The Geo Group - The Ellis Hollow Stone Circle
		The Ellis Hollow Stone Circle is a small, beautiful stone circle with a tall standing stone and a recumbent stone in the middle of an ellipse of small boulders.
		Special stones in the circle are aligned to point to the place on the horizon where the Sun rises on the Summer Solstice, the day of longest light being chosen to reinforce the spiritual aspects of the site.
		The original circle, created in 1977, was an ellipse of 8 small boulders surrounding one standing and one recumbent stone which mark the two centers of the ellipse.
	www.geo.org /ellis.htm (1166 words)

	Aberdeenshire Council - Loanhead of Daviot Standing Stones
		The 10 stones and recumbent are set in a circle 19.5 m in diameter: the area had been levelled before the stones were erected.
		Note that the stone beside the E flanker has 5 cup marks and that the recumbent was originally one block.
		Within the circle is a very low cairn with a pronounced kerb and a 'reserved' area around the recumbent.
	www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk /archaeology/sites/stonecircles/loanhead.asp (286 words)

	Stones Rising, Ancient Traditions in these Modern Times.
		Because Stones is not a festival as that concept is commonly understood.
		For Stones Rising is a community’s exploration of itself and the individuals expression of their own Spiritual sensibilities.
		Stones Rising is a community of shared intent and commitment, struggle and achievement that goes far beyond any one person or time.
	www.4qf.org /_StonesRising (1567 words)

	Stone Circle School - Ithaca, New York
		This is a wonderful chance for current Stone Circle parents and for prospective parents interested in learning more about the other classes, teachers and curriculum.
		Stone Circle School is a Waldorf-inspired elementary school located in the Ellis Hollow neighborhood of Ithaca, New York.
		Stone Circle School does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, or sexual orientation.
	www.stonecircleschool.org (746 words)

	Stone ring of Avebury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The northern circle is 320 feet in diameter and originally had twenty-seven stones of which only four remain standing today; the southern circle is 340 feet across and once contained twenty-nine stones, of which only five remain standing.
		The sarsen stones, ranging in height from nine to over twenty feet and weighing as much as 40 tons, were first hewn from bedrock and then dragged or sledded a distance of nearly two miles from their quarry site.
		The excavation of the encircling ditch required an estimated 200,000 tons of rock to be chipped and scraped away with the crudest of stone tools and antler picks (there is some evidence that this ditch was once filled with water, thereby giving the inner stone rings the appearance of being set upon an island).
	www.sacredsites.com /europe/england/avebury.html (1006 words)

	STONE CIRCLES, CRYSTAL GRIDS, and PARTICLE ACCELERATORS:the PHYSICS OF PI
		Of the 30 upright stones that were originally claimed to have been there only 24 are left standing in their original positions.
		This investigator states that the radius of the AUBREY CIRCLE is related directly to the SPEED of LIGHT; and the radius of the SARSEN CIRCLE corresponds to the square of the reciprocal of the speed of light.
		The circle is considered to be the most symmetrical two dimensional shape and the the sphere the most symmetrical three dimensional shape.
	www.west.net /~simon/STONECIRCLESCRYSTALGRIDSandPARTICLEACCELERATORS--thePHYSICSOFPI.html (2171 words)

	IAC - Folk & Tribal Art
		On this surface a paste of gum made from ground tamarind seeds and powdered stone is spread.
		The Wheel of Transmigration is laid out in concentric circles, rounds of rebirth that revolve around the center that depicts the three poisons: pig, ignorance; desire, crow; and hostility, serpent.
		The next circle shows souls ascending and descending in circles of reincarnation.
	www.indianartcircle.com /entry_folktribal.shtml (1761 words)

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