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A roughly oval-shaped setting of stones excavated in 1877. The status of the site and its date are uncertain, though an enclosure may be a more suitable interpretation than a stone circle. Soilmark traces of a bank with inner and outer ditches have been tentatively associated with this feature but are more likely to belong to a field system which covers this area (described in SU 06 NE 68).
More information : (SU 09856713) Stone Circle (NR) (remains of). (1)
Excavations at a scatter of stones, nearly a mile south of
Silbury Hill, by Smith and Long in 1877, revealed the remains of
a roughly oval setting of stones (see plan) enclosing an area
261ft by 216ft. Identified by Smith with Stukeley's very large
oblong work like a long barrow, made only of stones pitched in
the ground, no tumulus (2) which Stukeley says is on 'the heath
south of Silbury Hill'. According to Grinsell (3) in 1950 the
ground had long been arable and the stones were lying in heaps
with probably hardly any in situ.
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