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<< Other Photo Pages >> Glastonbury Stone Circle - Modern Stone Circle etc in England in Somerset

Submitted by Andy B on Sunday, 25 June 2023  Page Views: 25061

Modern SitesSite Name: Glastonbury Stone Circle Alternative Name: The Swan Circle, King's Field Stone Circle
Country: England County: Somerset Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Nearest Town: Shepton Mallet  Nearest Village: Pilton
Map Ref: ST59143858
Latitude: 51.145016N  Longitude: 2.585491W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 5 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Rhianb visited on 22nd Jun 2025 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 3 Have visited a number of times during Glasto and think I need to visit and see this without the crowds!

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Glastonbury Stone Circle
Glastonbury Stone Circle submitted by dodomad : Glastonbury Carhenge 2023. The Mutoid Waste Company led by Joe Rush, who also built a Carhenge at Glastonbury Festival 36 years ago, have built a scrap car Stonehenge for this year’s festival. Some of the cars were painted by artists and environmentalists. Brilliant idea and execution! Photo Credit: Amanda Chadburn More photos linked in the comments - click on the yellow highlight and scr... (Vote or comment on this photo)
The Glastonbury Festival stone circle is a recent monument on the British landscape, yet it is one that is visited by huge numbers of people over a very short period of time. Estimates of the numbers of people gathering at the Glastonbury stone circle are subject to speculation, however with a large proportion of the hundreds of thousands of people at festival visiting the stone circle it’s influence and draw is undisputed.

The stone circle at Glastonbury is a megalithic monument located at the site of Worthy Farm, situated in a valley lying between two low sandstone ridges. The monument lies in Kings Meadow at the far south of the area enclosed by the Glastonbury Festival.

The monument comprises about 20 stones ranging from over 2.5 metres to approximately 1.5 metres in height and includes a balanced horizontal stone resting on a number of smaller stones. The stones form an oval with a maximum length of 25m and a minimum of 20m in diameter with a central band of stones. To date no excavation or survey has been recorded for this monument.

Historic accounts date the monuments construction to 1992. Oral and written accounts indicate that the design of the monument specifically references prehistoric henges for example Stonehenge, a site that dwarfs the Swan Circle both in area and the number of stones. Since the inception of the Glastonbury festival in all its forms there has been a link between the festival, the solstice and Stonehenge.

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Access: Accessible to visitors to the yearly Glastonbury Festival. The circle is on private farmland.

Note: A Carhenge is part of Glastonbury 2023 - added to this page as it's a temporary installation. More photos linked from here
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Glastonbury Stone Circle
Glastonbury Stone Circle submitted by dodomad : Glastonbury Carhenge 2023. The Mutoid Waste Company led by Joe Rush, who also built a Carhenge at Glastonbury Festival 36 years ago, have built a scrap car Stonehenge for this year’s festival. Some of the cars were painted by artists and environmentalists. Brilliant idea and execution! Photo Credit: Amanda Chadburn More photos linked in the comments - click on the yellow highlight and scr... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Glastonbury Stone Circle
Glastonbury Stone Circle submitted by Antonine : 2007 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Glastonbury Stone Circle
Glastonbury Stone Circle submitted by Flickr : How the stone circle at Worthy Farm looks when the Glastonbury Festival is not running Image copyright: John Kerridge (John Kerridge), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Glastonbury Stone Circle submitted by Flickr : Revellers at the stone circle Image copyright: Nina A.J., hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Glastonbury Stone Circle submitted by Flickr : Banksy Circle Banksy did a take on the (fake) stone circle, made out of portaloos. There was quite a bit of resentment over the introduction of a plastic imitation sculpture so near to the much loved spiritual area, but I think it was good to get a bit of contrast in there. Image copyright: mrmanc (Mark Crossfield), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Glastonbury Stone Circle submitted by Flickr : Stone Circle Field Image copyright: GeoBlogs (Alan Parkinson), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Glastonbury Stone Circle submitted by Flickr : Kings Field stone circle, Glastonbury 1988 : a muddy year Image copyright: ukslim (John Hartnup), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (1 comment)

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Glastonbury Stone Circle submitted by Flickr : Stone circle panorama Image copyright: woofbark, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Glastonbury Stone Circle submitted by Flickr : Mystical stones on the hill Image copyright: glediator (Mark Gledhill), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Glastonbury Stone Circle submitted by Flickr : Stone Circle at Glastonbury From 2010 the hot and "hazy" spot at glaston !!! Image copyright: bezerra.gabriel, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Glastonbury Stone Circle
Glastonbury Stone Circle submitted by Flickr : The stone circle Image copyright: olliethebastard (ollie harridge), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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 9.1km W 271° St Joseph's Well* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (ST49993883)
 9.2km W 272° Glastonbury Lake Village Museum* Museum (ST499389)
 9.2km W 272° Market Cross (Glastonbury) Ancient Cross (ST4987538924)
 10.0km ESE 111° Patwell* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (ST6843434863)
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Glastonbury 2023 Carhenge by Andy B on Sunday, 25 June 2023
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A Carhenge is part of Glastonbury 2023 - I'll link to some of the best photos here:

Clonehenge:
The Mutoid Waste Company led by Joe Rush, who also built a Carhenge at Glastonbury Festival 36 years ago, have built a scrap car Stonehenge for this year’s festival. Some of the cars were painted by artists and environmentalists. Brilliant idea and execution!
https://twitter.com/Clonehenge/status/1671591370438451221

https://twitter.com/MeticulousGuru/status/1671829809045950465

Amanda Chadburn (who knows!)
Car Henge. Pretty accurate actually! This is the “Outer Sarsen Circle” as if one were looking out down the #Stonehenge Avenue, with the solstitial axis in the middle. Chill place to be with DJ playing 1950s rock ‘n roll.
https://twitter.com/AmandaChadburn/status/1672287964183838722

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Re: Glastonbury Stone Circle by Blingo_von_Trumpenstein on Monday, 27 June 2016
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Certainly had a few 'moments' within this one...
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Re: Glastonbury Stone Circle by Andy B on Sunday, 26 June 2016
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Oobah Butler Conducted an EU Referendum at Glastonbury’s Stone Circle at 2AM
http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/we-conducted-an-eu-referendum-at-glastonburys-stone-circle-at-2am

Emily Buchanan wrote: I spent a few sunrises at the infamous Stone Circle, a place that looks like paradise in pictures but is actually jam-packed with zombies that cannot string a coherent sentence together. I don’t mind drug use one jot, what I do mind is bad company and when stuck ‘talking’ to a person that goes on and on about their aura and the fact that shrooms just aren’t what they used to be and that their mate Whitey has got some sick bass bins, I start to lose interest. Aside from the inane monologuing and the bongo drums, the Stone Circle is punctuated by the cries of those selling and buying drugs. In a bid to normalise the situation, we shouted out for antihistamine but someone told us off for ruining their trip.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/emily-buchanan/glastonbury-wish-i-wasnt-here_b_3000961.html
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Glastonbury bans laughing gas from Stone Circle sacred space by Andy B on Sunday, 26 June 2016
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From 28 Apr 2015: Glastonbury organisers have asked people not to bring laughing gas to their Stone Circle.

Described as the festival's "sacred space", the Stone Circle and surrounding King's Meadow has "lost its way" recently, festival bosses say.

"I'm writing to ask for your help in reclaiming the King's Meadow," says Liz Eliot, co-ordinator of the Green Fields, in a note on the website.

"It breaks our hearts to see our Sacred Space used this way.

"It's become known as a place where people take nitrous oxide, a damaging drug which pollutes our beautiful field with noise, litter and N2O gas (a greenhouse gas which is 298 times more polluting than carbon dioxide)."

She also warns that there was a major injury on site last year, after a nitrous oxide gas canister exploded.

More at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32500884/glastonbury-bans-laughing-gas-from-stone-circle-sacred-space
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