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Am having a short break in Herefordshire during first week of October - top of my list to see is Arthur's Stone - understand some very interesting excavation has been taking place there. It also featured on Digging for Britain with Alice Roberts recently.
My map-reading walking friend tells me there seems to be an unnamed stone circle nearby, marked on the map. Can anyone tell me something about this please. And also point me in the direction of anything else, stoney, within a 10 mile radius.

Would be very grateful for any helpful info so we can can make the most our of four nights away.

Thank you in advance, best wishes

tjj x

There are lots of bits and bobs in the area. Mostly wrecked. However...

The Black Mountains has a variation of Cotswold-Severn tombs (angled side passage entrance) and its an inland group. They are dotted about where you are visiting but Arthur's is the best preserved.

The stone circle is the fun and games of it being the largest in the region but the worst preserved (one stone standing). It's up on Hay Bluff where they filmed the beginning to American Werewolf in London.

Penywyrlod Long Cairn is worth a visit. Rediscovered in 1973. National Park not too sure what to do with it. Largest in Wales. We also have the highest elevation Standing stones (standing and fallen) and the largest (on private land but if you contact prior you will probably get permission).

In recent years they rediscovered an unmolested long cairn that is nearby to the stone circle. Not on maps.

FoArthur's I think the recent excavations took place in the field across the road from it.

Ah, my home county (albeit I grew up at the other end of it).

This is the stone circle, what's left of it:

https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/3452/penybeacon.html

In case you are bored and want some reading, here's a blog with a couple of stones around Dorstone (and Arthur's Stone):
https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/97342/stonespotting_in_southwest_herefordshire_around_dorstone_8_june_2011.html