Stanton Drew Stone Circles

One of the stones to be seen at Stanton Drew where there is a complex of three stone circles, two avenues a cove and a standing stone from the Late Neolithic period 3000-2500BC - the largest stone circle in Britain after Avebury in Wiltshire

The Circles are believed to have played an important part in contemporary social and religious life - there is evidence that some were aligned with major events of the solar and lunar calendar.