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Four colour photos and links to other Dartmoor circles. Here’s a snip from site...

Brisworthy is a very attractive site and a pleasant place to sit especially as there was a short burst of sunshine when we reached it making a break from a misty and overcast day. The circle is over 80ft (24.8m) diameter and made up of 27 stones from an original 42. They are grey granite, some with quartz veins running through them and large quartz crystals in them. There are several loose stones that have been added to the circle.

The site includes a group of small stone circles around cairns, long rows, standing stones, cists, cairns, hut circles and pounds.

Another Stone circle and row on Dartmoor.
Actually, its a ring cairn with 31 granite stones 11m diameter with a 350m stone row stretching away from it

3 photos here of this Dartmoor circle

This is a cairn circle around 8.5m diameter consisting of 22 stones. In the centre is a cist with the stones forming the box.

A pair of circles on Dartmoor.
4 photos of this site

Stone circle and stone row on Dartmoor
3 photos and guide to site

Where else can you find a Stone circle a stone row and a standing stone in the same location?

Seven pictures and guide.

Great pics and more

all about the cross and the hill

(Amazon link). This book really opened up the Peaks for me. Just the index, which covers over 100 sites, is enough. The photography is wonderful, and the text enlightening and atmospheric.

(Amazon link). Easily digestible and straight-forward guide to “the most notable” prehistoric sites in the Peak District.

Info & pictures by Paul & Vicky Morgan – authors of the handy and friendly ‘Rock Around the Peak’ book which handles around 36 sites in Derbyshire, many of which aren’t widely known. They seem to have contributed quite a lot of information to this website, so if you’re a local, have a scoot around. You’ll be surprised.

The official web site of the nearby chapel- check out the dragons of Neifelheim at the base of the Apprentice Pillar

The works.
pics, sketches, description and more

Pic from the Stone Pages Ancient Scotland Tour

Roly Smith explores two Iron Age forts that offered little protection against Roman legionnaires and Cromwell’s dragoons

Discussion of Castle Killibury’s Arthurian Connection
By David Nash Ford.

The concept of King Arthur’s Capital is epitomised by the medieval Camelot, yet some of the earliest references to his court refer instead to the City of Celliwig, a name now associated with Killibury in Egloshayle, Cornwall.

more site info

the Stone Pages entry

The Stone Pages entry with some more notes

Some more info such as this Broch being reused in the 16th C

Diplomatically described here as a ‘Stone Setting’.

Site by Laurence Hunt.
West Penwith is justly famous for its prehistoric stone circles, quoits and standing stones. The area also has a large number of holy wells.