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phil Jan 1, 2003 21:37:03
Replying to juamei

I can go one better.....found a stone circle mentioned in....

"The Ancient Monuments of Dorset a definitive list" by N.H. Field and J. Bugler

Mayne Stone Circle at West Knighton SY723870

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/browse.php?site_id=3054

After adding the site to TMA I found that this Dorset (non) circle has no stones, not one bloody stone!...........

Any idea what and when caused the demise of this circle?

phil

J juamei
juamei Jan 2, 2003 09:36:51
Replying to phil

Peter Knight talks about this a bit in Ancient Stones of Dorset. He calls it Littlemayne circle and all this is under 'Littlemayne Stone & Leys'.

He quotes from Charles Warne's book 'Ancient Dorset' - "April 1728. A mile SE at Prior's aen, was a circle of stones lately broke to pieces by the owner, called Talbot." Also, John Syndenham in 1841 saw a 10 or 11 stone sircle nr littlemayne plus stones scattered across several fields.
Peter Knight found 19 stones when he visited in 93.

Apparently there may have been two circles and avenues...

Peter Knight also mentions a circle near Lulworth which has been destroyed 'somewhere about SY8782..nr whiteway farm.' The stones were removed by a farmer called Bower before 1872 apparently..