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https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/sheetlines-articles/Issue95page47.pdf

Thanks, useful to see that context.

It's worth mentioning that the Ordnance Survey didn't employ any archaeologists until the 1920s, and "stone" on a map in non-antiquity typeface means just that, a stone. It didn't have to be standing, or have anything to indicate artificial placement. It was just a stone big enough to warrant someone noticing it. I'm sure there were guidelines about how big a stone had to be to show, but I'm also fairly certain that different surveyors/draughtsmen interpreted the guidelines slightly flexibly!

None of which is to dismiss the idea that there could have been circles, just to point out that in itself a "stone" appearing on a 19th century 6 inch map is a pretty unreliable basis for a theory without something else to support it.

Hello and thanks. The excellent MvIvor paper started me off on this track along with other local observers. All the 3 sites he mentions are potentially Neolithic. I have just sent a paper on Fender Lane Array to the Charles Close Society chairman for comments.

Professor D P Gregg