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Submitted by brigantia on Monday, 28 September 2009  Page Views: 6462

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ringstone (Cropredy) Alternative Name: Ringstoneswelle
Country: 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:
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
Destroyed Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
2 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.
4 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
3

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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.

Possible Destroyed Stone Circle in Oxfordshire. Paul Bennett writes: In 1239 CE we find records of a field-name site called “Ringstoneswelle.” Although the place-name writer Margaret Gelling (1954) initially ascribed this as the watering-place of some dood called Hringstan, it is in fact the only record that I’ve found of a “stone circle by a well” in the village.

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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SP4646 : River Cherwell, Cropredy by Les Hull
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SP4746 : Cropredy bridge over the River Cherwell by Roger Davies
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SP4646 : Cropredy Bridge, towards Williamscot by Duncan Lilly
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