Stone Circle’s and me

Stone Circle’s and me

I’ve been asked why my when my fascination with stone circles first started and I think it mainly was when I I passed through the Lake District way back in the 80s and came across this breathtaking site it was heading to Loch Ness on a camping trip actually and it was Castle rig Stone

Circle and this was the first one I’d ever seen or even experienced I knew absolutely nothing Z zero about him but I could see that the structure was placed on this spectacular Plateau with the Magnificent surrounding Peaks for a reason whoever put it there knew what they were

Doing and it’s it sort of SE the seed for a curiosity now Castle rner kezic is perhaps the oldest still standing Stone Circle in England so many think with 38 large stones and spectacular scenery of the Lake District and it’s thought that this was a crucial site for prehistoric

Astronomers as the stones are laid out in a precise solar alignment and I think AR Below in Dar was probably the second the Stone Edge of the north and it’s one I tend to visit once or twice a year if I can including the Casal Solstice depending on the

Weather and then there’s an N ladies on Stanton Mo a place where we used to Camp regular back in the day and that there are more than 70 barrows on the mall and it has four bronze AG Stone circles or or rank canes which the best known is obviously the nine

Ladies and probably my most visited is uh DOL T that’s in Dar not far from Stanton Mo and it’s been described as a Fairy Circle in darbishire in a darbishire woodland and it’s one of my favorite places but struggle to visit it since lockdowns as many places have been B wired or

Restricted something were going on to to me the circle is like a symbol in in plain sight with sacred power a symbol of unity creation and wholeness and circles can represent the sun and the moon faces the earthone ecosystem chakras portals labyrinths or fairy Mounds wedding rings the circle of life and

Death and it seems like in Wicker and Witchcraft circles can be the underlying basis or principle of a practice many Witches cast sacred circles for protection when practicing their craft and I suppose you could say that the the magical intention is to bring lessons and experiences to fruition to

Full circle and to mirror the Cycles within nature also the times chosen to practice the craft can reflect the phases of the moon or the time of the wheel of the year it’s all circular now what was the purpose of the stone circles nobody’s sure but I think they

Were definitely of great importance to the prehistoric people and there must been a place of ritual and ceremony but it seems that were also used as astrological markers a a tribute trading sites or communial gathering places I think and the ritual or ceremonial purpose was probably in connection with a sun a moon

Alignments and the r are used for fun inary sites possibly by later generations who did not understand them in the same way like we don’t I suppose as in the Anglo Saxons and Danes use the round barrows as funerary sites I’ve also realized that stone circles can be found all around the

Globe from small clusters of four or five Standing Stones to massive rings of megaliths but wherever they are in the world the stone circles are known uh to many as sacred spaces and according to evidence it indicates that the purpose of stone circles was more than likely connected

To agricultural events such as the planting of crops harvesting and the summer and winter solstices but nobody knows for sure why these structures were built I mean many of them are aligned with the sun and the moon and form complex prehistoric calendars now although people often think of the ancient people as being

Primitive and uncivilized they were not now to me it seems obvious that some substantial knowledge of astronomy engineering and geometry was needed to complete these early observatories so I think these acient people need more credit than they get and many experts believe that stone circles have several different needs not just see

Observatories the places ceremon and worship as we’ said heing in some cases and local gathering places or even Trading Places now these are some of my favorite Stone circles from around the globe start off with about Adam’s Calendar and it’s it is controversially suggested to be the oldest man-made structure in the

World sometimes referred to as Africa’s stonee it predates both staine and the Great Pyramids of Giza by tens of thousands of years I reckon and it’s located in is it mum Langer in South Africa and it’s a standing Stone about 30 m in diameter and it’s been estimated like I say to be

Some more than 75,000 years old and some say 3 300,000 years old and there various astronomical alignments have been identified at this site and it’s happily named Adam’s Calendar because Stone are place to track the movement of the sun which cast Shadows on the Rock and apparently it still works perfectly

As a calendar today by following the shadow of the setting sun which is cast by the taller monolith onto the flat stone beside it also scattered throughout the mountains of South Africa are thousands of Stone Circle ruins and in 1974 they’re estimated to be 20,000 now since then uh Michael

Tellinger has estimated the number of ancient stone ruins to be 100,000 or more some so-called experts think they are the remains of livestock enclosures left behind by the banto people when they migrated from the north around 14th century but today this the seems far from certain there’s a structure so or unlike

Any other known banto cattle Corral which are usually made of thorny shrubs with a single entrance or exit for the cattle there are also several thousands of them spread over tens of thousands of miles now another out there theory is that they’re possibly used for mining gold somehow sucking out the Nano

Particles of gold onto the top layer of the surface and then be scraping the top layer off enabling it to process the gold but allegedly Nano particles of gold still remain there now this next site which was discovered around the mid99s I think really stir the archaeological World up gockley

Tee and it’s located along the tigis Euphrates river system in turkey and in the northern part of the ferar Crescent a region which saw the emergence of the most ancient farming communities in the world now it’s a Monumental enclosure of stone circles on top of a hill and

They’re erected by a group of haunted gaers apparently in the preot neic period between 11,600 and 10,200 years ago not only had it been in use for nearly a thousand years it was actually buried by them when they’ done with it which is why they found the evid for with a carbon

Dating now some of the pillars are abstract depictions of human form they also feature like low relief of items of clothing like belts and loin cloths and the bags they seem to carry and bags for some reason as well as reliefs of wild animals yeah it’s very hard to fathom

Why a group of onter gavers could suddenly develop the skills to do this type of amazing or advanced work just after the ice age right now we shoot over to America where in 1998 archaeologist discovered a circle in Miami now this one’s unusual the the Miami River Circle instead of being formed

From standing stones was formed by 24 holes of like basins cut into the Limestone Bedrock near the math of the Miami River and researchers refer to it as a sort of reverse Stone enge and because it’s so fragile the artifacts been buried again beneath layers of limestone rather than putting

It on display which is quite impressive for America now next one’s a new one I found and it’s the carun site in Armenia and it occupies an area of about seven hectares and the name carun is interpreted as deriving from two Armenian words meaning speaking stones apparently on a windy day the stones

Make a whistling sound it’s presumably because of multiple holes Bor into the stones at different angles in prehistoric times and the site is richual Stone settings burial cysts standing stones and there’s a total of 223 Stones I’ve been identified so far and the stones are made of bassol

Very re eroded by time and C with moss and Lins and the heights of the stones above ground vary from half meter up to 3 m and way up to 10 tons now carah hun was once considered the world’s oldest astronomical Observatory that’s debated now now there’s uh another fairly new

Discovery in 2016 researchers discovered a stone circle in India estimated to be around 7,000 year old and apparently it’s the only magic site in India and there’s also depiction of a Star constellation and it’s been found in maduma village in telana India now this cut Mark depiction of

Urer magia was noticed on a squarey stone planted vertically about 30 cup marks were arranged in a pattern similar to the appearance of Versa major in the sky and it’s not only the prominent Seven Stars but also the peripheral groups of stars are depicted as well

Now I’ve got to give this one a mention the vast and Rich enge of uh ay it’s a complex of neic and bronze AG ceremonial sites it contains three stone circles one of which is the largest in Europe and its main Outer megalithic Circle measures more than I think a th000 ft

And not a million miles away from Asbury a circle of vast prehistoric shafts have been discovered just under two miles from stonee the 20 shafts more than 33 ft in diameter and 16 ft deep seem to have been designed to create a circle around dorington walls henge and wood

Henge now the shafts are at least 4,500 years old from the neic period and it’s likely the same people who constructed Stone originally built the shafts at durington walls and it’s now the largest prehistoric site discovered to date in the UK now we’ve got another extremely unusual one it’s called sea henge and

It’s a huge tree stump that was buried upside down with its roots uppermost and surrounding the tree was stumps there 55 Timber post which had been from smaller Oaks in the surrounding area now 4,000 years ago on the beach where it was discovered it would have been salt marsh not a Sandy

Beach and the exact purpose of the Timber Circle has never been quite determin uh one theory is that the upturn tree stump was put there so dead bodies could be laid on top of the roots and birds of animals could then Peck away at the Flesh and the bones to clean

Them not sure about that one but it was a practice back back in the day and like I say if you’re looking up to me in Norfolk go and visit Lyn museum at Kings ly the trees there I’ve got to go see that the next one is the famous kinis

Standing stones and for thousands of years the The Standing Stones erected on the remote Ean island of Lewis a remain a mystery why were the place there what was the purpose now archaeologists have uncovered dramatic new evidence that suggests that our neic ancestors were inspired to construct the megaliths as a devotional

Monument for the natural phenomenon of lightning strikes now the said lightning strike which was identified on geophysics survey could show a potential link between the construction of ancient stone circles and the forces of nature interesting Theory and in the center of the stone circle and on the western aisle is

Evidence of a massive lightning strike I’m not sure if it was a single large massive strike or many smaller ones on the same spot but left a starshaped MAG magnetic anomaly at the 4,000 year old Lewis site and I think that was discovered in 2019 uh this one is a 7,000 year old magic Monument in Spain and is very intriguing because it’s only recently reappeared it’s been submerged for decades beneath a reservoir and around 100 ancient Stones thought to have been used as a ceremonial tomb arranged in an oval shape it was excavated in the

1920s before it was flooded as as a dam the do was revealed in the summer of 2019 after a period of drought now very little is known about the origins of this next one it’s a large group of stone circles that are scattered around Sagal and Gambia so we’ll call it sonog

Gambia and it contains four large groups of stone circles and it includes 11 ancient stone Circles of the wasu which are found around the central River Region of The Gambia now a bird’s iew gives you the best sense of the scale and ambition of this ancient megalith it lies a bit controversial

This one in the isra occupied portion of the goolan Heights and it consists of a large circle of Bassel rocks and four smaller concentric circles it’s dated to 3000 BC but who built it nobody knows I is a nice one the the tobata stone circle in Tokyo and it’s one of the greatest

Mysteries archaeologist are trying to unravel over there at the moment and it’s a Sund Stone Circle and it contains one large upright Stone in the center of a small Stone cluster that a long Stones placed in a radial pattern right the last one is probably the weirdest it’s a mystery Stone Circle

Made from Mammoth bones found in Russia now that the Airy bone Circle made from the remains of dozens of mammoths as they helped shed light on how ancient communities survived in Europe’s Ice Age and around 70 of these structures are known to exist in Ukraine and West

Russian ples the bones at one site are more than 20,000 years old new research suggests making it the oldest circular structure built by humans discovered anywhere apart from Adam’s Calendar possibly

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