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Modern SitesSite Name: Pewsey Standing Stones
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.95 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Wiltshire Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Nearest Town: Pewsey
Map Ref: SU167601
Latitude: 51.339746N  Longitude: 1.761643W
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
 2 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.
 5 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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Pewsey Standing Stones
Pewsey Standing Stones submitted by hamish : This is the row of stones by the river path. In the park behind are some fallen stones. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Sarsen Stones arranged for the Queens Jubilee in 1977 near Pewsey in Wiltshire

Some say these Stones are said to be the remains of a Stone Circle which may have been in the grounds of the old rectory (but see comments below!). There are more stones incorporated into the foundations around the church and in the park behind.
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Pewsey Standing Stones
Pewsey Standing Stones submitted by hamish : More fallen stones. There are sarsens in the foundations of the church but I don't have any photos of them. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pewsey Standing Stones
Pewsey Standing Stones submitted by hamish : This is the park behind the other stones, fallen stones are littered all around. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pewsey Standing Stones
Pewsey Standing Stones submitted by hamish : If you park in the Co-op carpark walk and along the river, after the bridge you will see a row of standing stones. This is the largest. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Pewsey Standing Stones by Anonymous on Friday, 23 February 2018

I'm sorry about this but I have to correct the wholly misleading suggestion about a local tale of a destroyed stone circle. My family have lived in and around Pewsey for some 500 years. I was born and brought up there and went on to study archaeology at UCL. I can say with authority that i have never heard any story which even vaguely concerns a destoyed stone circle either in or around the village.
I'm adding to this the post that I put up on another site over ten years ago. I have to say its quite tiresome and also irresponsible that entirely ficticious myths such as this are created and applied utterly without foundation. Any "legend" surrounding these stones has been dreamt up as some sort of self-serving attention-seeking exercise by whoever made the claim in the first place.

"It is true that there are sarsens used as footings for the current church,reused from the original wooden Saxon church that occupied the same site. Pewsey is a Saxonword derived from "Pefe's Well-watered land" which might suggest a marshy, low-lying damp sort of place where large lumps of stone were a prerequisite for the footings of many buildings as the town developed. However the ones situated alongside the river were brought in by council contractors when the area between the river and the football ground was landscaped as part of the Queens Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1977. I know because I was part of the local Scout group that helped dig out one of the ponds, and I watched them doing it! I agree that they appear to have been dumped fairly randomly but such was the wisdom of rural council contractors in the 1970's
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Re: Pewsey Standing Stones by Anonymous on Monday, 29 May 2017
Those stones have been there since the 1970's. I can even put you in touch with the bloke who put them there
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Re: Pewsey Standing Stones by brigantia on Wednesday, 14 January 2009
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Hi there Hamish!

A query: where you say, "These Stones are said to be the remains of a Stone Circle" - who says that exactly? Izzit documented, folklore texts, local antiquarian accounts, or just local gossip from modern folk who just wish they had a stone circle to shout about? Twouldst be good to know!

Cheers - Paul

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