The Stripple stones (or Stripple stones circle) is a henge and stone circle located on the south slope of Hawk's Tor, Blisland, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north northeast of Bodmin on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England, UK.[1][2]
^William C. Lukis (1885). The prehistoric stone monuments of the British Isles: Cornwall. Printed for Nichols and Sons for the Society of Antiquaries. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
^Alexander Thom; Archibald Stevenson Thom; Aubrey Burl (1980). Megalithic rings: plans and data for 229 monuments in Britain. British Archaeological Reports. pp. 81–. ISBN 978-0-86054-094-6. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
The Stripplestones (or Stripplestones circle) is a henge and stone circle located on the south slope of Hawk's Tor, Blisland, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi)...
6 mi) north northeast of Bodmin on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, UK. The Stripplestones are nearby. The circle is situated on nearly level ground and has a...
Who serial The Stones of Blood (1978) featured several scenes taped at the Rollright Stones. The site was presented as a fictional stone circle in Cornwall...
found at Castilly, Castlewich, and the StrippleStones. Embanked avenues, consisting of two parallel banks of stone, include the 55-metre-long monument at...
pyramidal-shaped stones (Goggleby Stone, Thunder stone) differs from that of the other boulders in the complex. Traces of eight stones mark the avenue...
the stones represented supernatural entities for the circle's builders. A double concentric circle consisting of sarsen megaliths, Fir Clump stone circle...
stone circles. A long barrow burial chamber has been found under the stones of The Cove. It is thought that this predates the erection of the stones by...
shortage of big stones on Exmoor. This scarcity of large stones may explain why Neolithic and Bronze Age communities used small stones, termed miniliths...
Each circle contains smaller clusters of stone, including standing stones surrounded by elongated stones in a radiating orientation, forming a sundial...
The Callanish Stones (or "Callanish I": Scottish Gaelic: Clachan Chalanais or Tursachan Chalanais) are an arrangement of standing stones placed in a cruciform...
circle's stones were lying prone. The Reverend A. C. Smith visited that year, and probed the ground to determine the location and dimensions of the stones; he...
monument is unknown. Nine Stones Close originally measured 13.7 metres in diameter. In the mid-19th century it had seven stones in its ring, although by...
inner stone circle of 15 or 16 sarsen stones was introduced alongside what was by that point the middle ring, making an almost solid wall of stones and...
shortage of big stones on Exmoor. This scarcity of large stones may explain why Neolithic and Bronze Age communities used small stones, termed miniliths...
met with several great stones" that were "flat upon the ground". The site was destroyed in the 1880s, for none of the stones remained by 1890. Peasants...
millstone grit stones, although for several centuries one of these was buried, providing the impression that there had been nine stones. Whether the tenth...
Gotland. More than four hundred picture stones are known today. All of the stones were probably erected as memorial stones, but only rarely beside graves. Some...
ritual practice Cove (standing stones) – Tight rectangular group of stones Cromlech – Ring of standing stones Deer stone – Megaliths found largely in Siberia...
standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones. Inside...
The stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany are a megalithic tradition of monuments consisting of standing stones arranged in rings. These were...
the Tisbury Stone Circle in situ though a small decorative stone circle at Wardour Castle grotto incorporates three of the standing stones. While the transition...
notebook, Passmore noted that he could find eight stones as part of the circle. He also discovered three stones inside the circle, suggesting that these may...
ring consists of eighteen stones, the longest of which are located at the north of the circle. As of 1939, all the stones were lying on the ground, although...
Carnac Stones in Brittany, France consist of thousands of stones. Megalithic walls Also called Cyclopean walls Stone circles In most languages stone circles...
upright stones remain in place. A picture of the Stones of Stenness features on the cover of Van Morrison's album The Philosopher's Stone. The Odin stone is...
sites, with the stones perhaps having supernatural associations for those who built the circles. Local folklore holds that the stones arrived in their...
Bodmin Moor Summit is the outcrop next to the trig point. Site of Stripplestones, stone circle, Hawkstor Pit SSSI Brockabarrow Common 306 31 SX160747 TuMP...
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