Stone circle, the Glossary
A stone circle is a ring of standing stones.[1]
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62 relations: Alentejo, Almendres Cromlech, Atlantic Europe, Atlit Yam, Aubrey Burl, Avebury, Axial stone circle, Évora, Ballenstedt, Basque Country (autonomous community), Beglik Tash, Black Sea, Booco, Brittany, Bronze Age, Callanish Stones, Carnac, Carnac stones, Causse de Blandas, Cévennes, Chamber tomb, County Cork, County Kerry, Dolmen, Drombeg stone circle, Er Lannic, Eritrean Highlands, Ethiopian Highlands, Giant, Harrespil, Henge, Horn of Africa, Iron Age Europe, Isle of Lewis, Jentil, Lake District, Langdale axe industry, Late Neolithic, Little St Bernard Pass, Mairu, Megalith, Megalithic architectural elements, Menhir, Neolithic, Northwestern Europe, Orkney, Pyrenees, Ring cairn, Rollright Stones, Rosscarbery, ... Expand index (12 more) »
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Alentejo
Alentejo is a geographical, historical, and cultural region of south–central and southern Portugal.
Almendres Cromlech
The Cromlech of the Almendres (Cromeleque dos Almendres/Cromeleque na Herdade dos Almendres) is a megalithic complex (commonly known as the Almendres Cromlech), located 4.5 road km WSW of the village of Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe, in the civil parish of Nossa Senhora da Tourega e Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe, municipality of Évora, in the Portuguese Alentejo.
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Atlantic Europe
Atlantic Europe is a geographical term for the western portion of Europe which borders the Atlantic Ocean.
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Atlit Yam
Atlit Yam is a submerged ancient Neolithic village off the coast of Atlit, Israel.
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Aubrey Burl
Harry Aubrey Woodruff Burl HonFSA Scot (24 September 1926 – 8 April 2020) was a British archaeologist best known for his studies into megalithic monuments and the nature of prehistoric rituals associated with them.
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Avebury
Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England.
Axial stone circle
An axial stone circle is a megalithic ring of stones of a particular design found in County Cork and County Kerry in southwest Ireland.
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Évora
Évora is a city and a municipality in Portugal.
Ballenstedt
Ballenstedt is a town in the Harz district, in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
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The Basque Country (Euskadi; País Vasco), also called the Basque Autonomous Community, is an autonomous community in northern Spain.
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Beglik Tash
Beglik Tash (Беглик Таш, Beylik Taşı) is a prehistoric rock sanctuary situated on the southern Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, a few kilometers north of the city of Primorsko.
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Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
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Booco
Booco is an archaeological site in the northeastern Bari province of Somalia.
Brittany
Brittany (Bretagne,; Breizh,; Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
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Callanish Stones
The Callanish Stones (or "Callanish I": Clachan Chalanais or Tursachan Chalanais) are an arrangement of standing stones placed in a cruciform pattern with a central stone circle, located on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland.
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Carnac
Carnac (Karnag) is a commune beside the Gulf of Morbihan on the south coast of Brittany in the Morbihan department in north-western France.
Carnac stones
The Carnac stones (Steudadoù Karnag) are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites near the south coast of Brittany in northwestern France, consisting of stone alignments (rows), dolmens (stone tombs), tumuli (burial mounds) and single menhirs (standing stones).
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Causse de Blandas
Causse de Blandas is a limestone karst plateau in the south of the Massif Central in the Gard department, in southern France.
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Cévennes
The Cévennes (Cevenas) is a cultural region and range of mountains in south-central France, on the south-east edge of the Massif Central.
Chamber tomb
A chamber tomb is a tomb for burial used in many different cultures. Stone circle and chamber tomb are megalithic monuments.
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County Cork
County Cork (Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are Mallow, Macroom, Midleton, and Skibbereen., the county had a population of 584,156, making it the third-most populous county in Ireland.
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County Kerry
County Kerry (Contae Chiarraí) is a county on the southwest coast of Ireland, within the province of Munster and the Southern Region.
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Dolmen
A dolmen or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Stone circle and dolmen are megalithic monuments and types of monuments and memorials.
Drombeg stone circle
Drombeg stone circle (also known as The Druid's Altar) is a small axial stone circle located east of Glandore, County Cork, Ireland. Although not an especially significant example, Drombeg is one of the most visited megalithic sites in Ireland, and is protected under the National Monuments Act. It was excavated in 1958, when the cremated remains of an adolescent were found in a pot in the circle's center.
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Er Lannic
Er Lannic is a small island in the commune of Arzon, in the Morbihan department in Brittany in northwestern France.
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Eritrean Highlands
The Eritrean Highlands are a mountainous region in central Eritrea.
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Ethiopian Highlands
The Ethiopian Highlands (also called the Abyssinian Highlands) is a rugged mass of mountains in Ethiopia in Northeast Africa.
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Giant
In folklore, giants (from Ancient Greek: gigas, cognate giga-) are beings of humanoid appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear an otherwise notable appearance.
Harrespil
Harrespil is the Basque name, that can be translated by "stone circle", given to small megalithic monuments which abounds on mountains of the Basque Country in particular.
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Henge
A henge loosely describes one of three related types of Neolithic earthwork. Stone circle and henge are types of monuments and memorials.
Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.
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Iron Age Europe
In Europe, the Iron Age is the last stage of the prehistoric period and the first of the protohistoric periods,The Junior Encyclopædia Britannica: A reference library of general knowledge.
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Isle of Lewis
The Isle of Lewis (Eilean Leòdhais) or simply Lewis (Leòdhas) is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides archipelago in Scotland.
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Jentil
The jentil (or jentilak with the Basque plural), are a race of giants in Basque mythology.
Lake District
The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region and national park in Cumbria, North West England.
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Langdale axe industry
The Langdale axe industry (or factory) is the name given by archaeologists to a Neolithic centre of specialised stone tool production in the Great Langdale area of the English Lake District.
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Late Neolithic
In the archaeology of Southwest Asia, the Late Neolithic, also known as the Ceramic Neolithic or Pottery Neolithic, is the final part of the Neolithic period, following on from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic and preceding the Chalcolithic.
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Little St Bernard Pass
The Little St Bernard Pass (French: Col du Petit Saint-Bernard, Italian: Colle del Piccolo San Bernardo) is a mountain pass in the Alps on the France–Italy border.
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Mairu
Mairu (plural: mairuak), also called Maideak, Mairiak, Saindi Maidi (in Lower Navarre), Intxisu in the Bidasoa valley are creatures of Basque mythology.
Megalith
A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones. Stone circle and megalith are megalithic monuments.
Megalithic architectural elements
This article describes several characteristic architectural elements typical of European megalithic (Stone Age) structures. Stone circle and megalithic architectural elements are megalithic monuments.
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Menhir
A menhir (from Brittonic languages: maen or men, "stone" and hir or hîr, "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age. Stone circle and menhir are megalithic monuments.
Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
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Northwestern Europe
Northwestern Europe, or Northwest Europe, is a loosely defined subregion of Europe, overlapping Northern and Western Europe.
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Orkney
Orkney (Orkney; Orkneyjar; Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands (archaically "The Orkneys"), is an archipelago off the north coast of Scotland.
Pyrenees
The Pyrenees are a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain.
Ring cairn
A ring cairn (also correctly termed a ring bank enclosure, but sometimes wrongly described as a ring barrow) is a circular or slightly oval, ring-shaped, low (maximum 0.5 metres high) embankment, several metres wide and from 8 to 20 metres in diameter.
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Rollright Stones
The Rollright Stones are a complex of three Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monuments near the village of Long Compton, on the borders of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire.
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Rosscarbery
Rosscarbery is a village and census town in County Cork, Ireland.
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Senegambian stone circles
The Senegambian stone circles or the Wassu stone circles are groups of megalithic stone circles that lie in The Gambia north of Janjanbureh and in central Senegal. Stone circle and Senegambian stone circles are stone circles.
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Somalia
Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa.
Stone circle (Iron Age)
The stone circles of the Iron Age (c. 500 BC – c. 400 AD) were a characteristic burial custom of southern Scandinavia and Southwestern Finland, especially on Gotland and in Götaland.
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Stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany
The stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany are a megalithic tradition of monuments consisting of standing stones arranged in rings.
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Stone row
A stone row or stone alignment is a linear arrangement of megalithic standing stones set at intervals along a common axis or series of axes, usually dating from the later Neolithic or Bronze Age. Stone circle and stone row are megalithic monuments and types of monuments and memorials.
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Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury.
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Stones of Stenness
The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument five miles northeast of Stromness on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland.
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Timber circle
In archaeology, timber circles are rings of upright wooden posts, built mainly by ancient peoples in the British Isles and North America. Stone circle and timber circle are types of monuments and memorials.
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Ulster
Ulster (Ulaidh or Cúige Uladh; Ulstèr or Ulster) is one of the four traditional or historic Irish provinces.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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University College Cork
University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) (Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork.
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Wessex
The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until Alfred the Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_circle
Also known as Concentric stone circle, Cycolith, Stone Circles.
, Senegambian stone circles, Somalia, Stone circle (Iron Age), Stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, Stone row, Stonehenge, Stones of Stenness, Timber circle, Ulster, United Kingdom, University College Cork, Wessex.