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Megalithic Mysteries - England

Counties of England:

Wiltshire	Avon & Somerset	Dorset	Cornwall	Devon	Yorkshire	Cumbria	Derbyshire	The Cotswolds	The South East

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An anthropologist friend of mine was one of the thousands at the Open Event at Stonehenge this summer solstice. Hear her Audio Diary (7mins)

Stones of Wiltshire

Many well-known monuments in an area stretching from Salisbury Plain to Bristol

• Avebury Henge Stone Circle / Henge  AUDIO TOUR
• West Kennet Avenue - Avebury Stone Rows
• Silbury Hill Man Made Earthwork
• Winterbourne Stoke Barrow Cemetery
• West Kennet Long Barrow
• Stonehenge Stone Circle / Henge
• Stonehenge by Night   Stone Circle

Stones of Avon & Somerset 

• SITE WATCH NEWS: EH action to repair Stoney Littleton Long Barrow after five long years
• Stanton Drew Stone Circle Animated fly-by 
• Stanton Drew - The Cove Standing Stones  
• The Sweet Track Ancient Trackway (Peat Moors Visitor Centre - now closed)

 Stones of Dorset

There are many little known sites in this southern county.

• Knowlton Rings Henge
• Badbury Rings Hillfort
• Kingston Russell Stone Circle
• Nine Stones Stone Circle

and on the Isle of Wight (not part of Dorset):

• The Long Stone Standing Stone

Stones of Cornwall

• Boscawen-Un Stone Circle
• Boskednan Stone Circle
• Duloe Stone Circle
• Fernacre Stone Circle
• Goodaver Stone Circle
• The Hurlers Stone Circle
• Kenidjack Common - Stone Row
• King Arthur's Hall - Rectangular Enclosure
• Leaze - Stone Circle
• Men-An-Tol Holed Stone
• Merry Maidens Stone Circle
• Nine Maidens - Stone Row
• Nine Stones (Bodmin) Stone Circle
• Stannon Stone Circle
• Stripple Stones Stone Circle
• Trethevy Quoit - Burial Chamber
• Trippet Stones Stone Circle

Stones of Devon

• SITE WATCH NEWS: Stop the Dartmoor "Super-quarry" Development threatens nationally important archaeological sites on Dartmoor. Open day of walks around the threatened areas of the Blackabrook Valley and Shaugh Moor on Saturday 22nd July 2000.
• Brisworthy Stone Circle
• Down Tor Stone Circle
• Drizzlecombe Multiple Stone Rows
• Fernworthy Stone Circle
• Grey Wethers Stone Circle
• Merrivale Stone Circle
• Merrivale Stone Rows
• Nine Stones (Dartmoor) Stone Circle
• Scorhill Stone Circle
• Stall Down Stone Circle
• Stalldown Barrow Stone Row
• Trowsleworthy Warren East Stone Circle
• White Moor Down Stone Circle

Stones of Yorkshire

Yorkshire is not as rich in megaliths as other northern counties such as Cumbria, but it has some impressive monuments, including the Rudston Monolith, Britain's tallest standing stone.

• Devil's Arrows Stone Row
• Rudston Monolith Standing Stone
• High Bridestones Standing Stones
• Ramsdale Standing Stones

Stones of Cumbria

Cumbria includes the much visited Lake District.

• SITE WATCH NEWS: Millennium Monstrosity at Mayburgh Henge?
• Swinside Stone Circle
• Castlerigg Stone Circle New photos
• Long Meg & her daughters Standing Stone and Stone Circle New photos
• Little Meg Stone Circle
• Mayburgh Henge & standing stone Henge
• Moor Divock - The Cockpit Stone Circle
• Kemp Howe Stone Circle
• Oddendale Stone Circle
• Various Standing Stones Cop Stone, Thunder Stone, Goggleby Stone
• Casterton Stone Circle

...and one from nearby Lancashire

• Bleaberry Haws Stone Circle

Non-prehistoric landmarks of Cumbria

Stones of Derbyshire

Derbyshire includes the Peak District National Park

• SITE WATCH NEWS: Nine Ladies and the surrounding Stanton Moor threatened by quarrying
• Arbor Low Stone Circle & Henge Animated fly-by
• Doll Tor Stone Circle
• Nine Ladies Stone Circle
• Stanton Moor III Henge
• Stanton Moor V Henge
• The Bullring Henge
• Nine Stones Close Stone Circle
• more Stones of Derbyshire on Alastair McIvor's Stone Circles web site

Stones of the Cotswolds

I've included quite a wide area of Central England in this section

Oxfordshire

• The Rollright Stones Stone Circle AUDIO TOUR
• The King Stone (Rollrights complex) Standing Stone
• The Devil's Quoits - Henge and buried Stone Circle
• Goose Stones Standing Stone
• Hawk Stone Standing Stone
• Lyneham Long Barrow
• Old Vicarage Standing Stone
• Thor Stone Standing Stone

Gloucestershire

• The Long Stone Standing Stones
• Hetty Pegler`s Tump (Uley) Long Barrow
• The Toots Long Barrow
• Soldier's Grave Round Barrow
• Nympsfield Long Barrow
• Notgrove- Long Barrow
• Hangman's Stone Standing Stone

Hereford & Worcester

• Arthur's Stone Chambered Tomb

Sites of East Anglia - 'Seahenge'

• Seahenge - Timber Circle (Norfolk)

Sites of the South East

• Abinger Manor - Mesolithic Pit Dwelling (Surrey)
• Frensham Common - Round Barrows (Surrey) Quicktime VR
• Danebury - Hillfort (Hampshire)

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