• 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...
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    ring of standing stones at Stonehenge. Scattered examples exist from other parts of Europe. Later, during the Iron Age, stone circles were built in southern...
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  • A stone circle is a ring of standing stones. Stone circle may also refer to: Stone circle (Iron Age) Stone circles (Hong Kong) Senegambian stone circles...
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    Senegambian stone circles (French: Cercles mégalithiques de Sénégambie), or the Wassu stone circles, are groups of megalithic stone circles located in...
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    Castlerigg Stone Circle (alternatively Keswick Carles, or Carles) is situated on a prominent hill to the east of Keswick, in the Lake District National...
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    Drew stone circles are just outside the village of Stanton Drew in the English county of Somerset. The largest stone circle is the Great Circle, 113 metres...
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    Menhir (redirect from Menhir (Iron Age))
    Standing stone carved into a human shape Stone circle – Ring of standing stones Stone row – Linear row of standing stones. Also stone alignment. Stone ship –...
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    later stone cist graves. "Velna laivas" (Devils' ships) mainly in Talsi Municipality (northern Courland), dated c. 950–750 BCE. Stone circle (Iron Age) Menhir...
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    tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, over a...
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    Avebury (redirect from Avebury stone circle)
    New Stone Age, the monument comprises a large henge (a bank and a ditch) with a large outer stone circle and two separate smaller stone circles situated...
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