Stone Circles around the uk.

[wolfstalin 10]

I've not been to many but I like Castlerigg near keswick

 

My saga took six years, well nearly, and about 3000 hrs in the air.

 

Oh, and a lot of money, even by my standards.

[Mathom 10]

I found my Cornwall ones:

http://www.stonepages.com/england/merrymaidens.html

and

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.001001001013001001008

 

Merry Maidens is a lovely one, I like it there, too!

 

Other things worth seeing round there are Carn Euny, an ancient village with a Fogou; Chysauster, another ancient village; Men-an-Tol, a weird thing which I think is clearly something to do with fertility. And chuck in a visit to St Michael's Mount which is magical

[Zebra 10]

I've dug this thread up as I'm planning on going hunting for the stone cross I saw many years ago. I wondered if there were any more thoughts on the likelihood of where it is?

[quisquose 10]

Visited Boleigh Fogou a few years ago. We all squeezed through the gap into the creep, and then somebody shone a torch towards the ceiling and there was the largest spiders we had ever seen, with white eggs sacks the size of golfballs hanging down. Eeek.

 

At that moment I thought, Julian Cope shut your mouth!

[Saffy 10]

Yup, the nine ladies us a special place. Anyone going there should also do the walk up behind the Druid Inn and cost the caves and stone seats and stone pedestal bowls all carved into a huge rock face.

[Anarchon 10]

I've dug this thread up as I'm planning on going hunting for the stone cross I saw many years ago. I wondered if there were any more thoughts on the likelihood of where it is?

 

I'm intrigued.

 

What did it look like and roughly where did you see the stone cross?

[megalithic 10]

Well obviously i have an interest in this too, so would like know of what cross thou speaketh.

 

For local stone circles and ancient sites, see my sig.

[megalithic 10]

Zebra, reading your (much) earlier post, it puts me in mind of Froggatt edge.

Though i know of no cross up there.

For some reason this site slipped through my net and i haven't entered directions for it, i'll get onto that tomorrow, for now though here's a pic.

 

Also, for anyone interested, up by brown edge / Totley moor circle there's an ancient inscription, i was told it was a boundary stone, something to do with king Offa. ?

It's buried in heather now and a bugger to find if you don't know exactly where it is.

Thinking about it now, i'm sure i have pics of the inscriptions somewhere.

[megalithic 10]

dunno if this is the right way up, but here's the inscribed stone.

Another view here.

And another stone close by in this pic.

 

Sorry for sorta hijacking the thread, i don't know of any record of these stones online and someone may one day be interested in them.

[Vague_Boy 10]

My favorite is Avebury so many in one village a truly magical place.

 

Avebury was the location for the 1977 ITV series "Children of the Stones", a very unsettling children's TV classic, now available on DVD.

[upinwath 10]

Rats - I thought this was an immigration thread.

[foxy lady 10]

If you search stone circles, use derbyshire as the search, not sheffield - there is IIRC only one in sheffield - tens of them in derbyshire though (been dragged on a few hunts by my gf's sister).

 

I bought an Ordinance Survey map of Derbyshire when I came to Sheffield. The stone circles are marked on it. There are dozens of the things dotted around very close to here. You can find the O/S maps in local libraries and as many of the circles are close to public footpaths you can take a walk and have picnics (or whatever else you fancy:o) inside the circles.