<< Our Photo Pages >> Falkner's Circle - Stone Circle in England in Wiltshire
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Falkner's CircleCountry: England County: Wiltshire Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Marlborough Nearest Village: Avebury
Map Ref: SU10986931 Landranger Map Number: 173
Latitude: 51.422697N Longitude: 1.843477W
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 |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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rvbaker2003 visited on 10th Nov 2024 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 2 Access: 4
TheCaptain saw from a distance on 25th Sep 2020 Climbing over Waden Hill before walking up the avenue back to Avebury, got a good view of the site of Falkners Circle with its singular stone glowing in the afternoon sun.
elad13 visited on 16th Mar 2019 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3
NickyD visited on 7th Dec 2015 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4
graemefield visited on 27th Jun 2011 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4
Phillwhite visited on 9th Nov 1999 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Easy to find if you know where it is! Drive or walk out of Avebury along the Avenue and stop at the free parking where the stones end. One the other side of the road is a hedge with access to the field. Walk down the hedge to almost the bottom order nd the stone is n the hedgerow.
TheCaptain visited on 4th Oct 1998 Visit lots of ancient sites on a long off road cycle tour from Avebury to Windmill Hill, along the Wansdyke and back up Kennet Avenue
mdensham have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2 Ambience: 3 Access: 3.8
It is named after a Mr.Falkner who was an antiquary from Devizes.
From Historic England
The monument was described by Falkner in 1840 and there is also a plan drawn by W Long which shows that this stone was originally part of a circle of at least 12 stones with a diameter of c.37m. Falkner lists, in addition to the surviving stone, two recumbent stones and nine holes from which stones had been extracted.
Excavations in 2002 by Drs Josh Pollard and Mark Gillings, of Beckhampton Avenue fame, seem to confirm that the feature was indeed a circle.
Curiously this component of the Avebury complex was overlooked by both John Aubrey and William Stukeley.
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