<< Text Pages >> Ringstone (Cropredy) - Stone Circle in England in Oxfordshire
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ringstone (Cropredy) Alternative Name: RingstoneswelleCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 2.966 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Oxfordshire Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Banbury Nearest Village: Cropredy
Map Ref: SP470464
Latitude: 52.113933N Longitude: 1.31506W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Majick123 couldn't find on 2nd Aug 2013 - their rating: Cond: -1 Could not find any sign of the site. I suspect the Church of St Mary the Virgin has been built on the site. There are a few large stones around the Village which may have once been part of the circle. One on School Lane, and most notably the boundary stone just over the bridge on the Williamscott Road.
This etymological root is confirmed in A.H. Smith’s English Place-Name Elements (vol.1, p.265) as a probable stone circle.
There is also the curious field-name legend of a place in Cropredy called Kirk or Church Piece, where a christian church was being built, but in the morning all the stones had been uprooted & moved back from whence they came. This happened several times according to the folktale – a story that has with all the hallmarks of a megalithic site. (see Grinsell’s Folklore) To me it seems likely that the nearby Cup and Saucer Stone also had something to do with this lost stone circle.
For more information see The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) page for Megalithix, Ringstone, Cropredy, Oxfordshire
IMPORTANT NOTE: Our own Cropredy is convinced it is near the cricket pitch so I have provisionally put the location there. So the location is for the cricket pitch and nothing more. If you have any further ideas see also our forum post here.
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