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These stone circles typically show very little evidence of human visitation during the period immediately following their creation. This suggests that they were not sites used for rituals that left archaeologically visible evidence, but may have been deliberately left as "silent and empty monuments".
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770:Day House Lane Stone Circle
650:Tregeseal East stone circle
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972:Long Meg and Her Daughters
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595:Craddock Moor stone circle
536:Carrigaphooca Stone Circle
422:Broome Circle Stone Circle
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895:Hordron Edge stone circle
696:Hampton Down Stone Circle
1189:Auchagallon Stone Circle
1149:Whitcastles stone circle
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729:Stonor Park Stone Circle
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526:Breeny More Stone Circle
1103:Colmeallie stone circle
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688:Yellowmead stone circle
663:Brisworthy stone circle
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711:Rempstone Stone Circle
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82:Fir Clump Stone Circle
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937:Birkrigg stone circle
800:Tan Hill stone circle
765:Clatford Stone Circle
635:Nine Stones, Altarnun
615:Goodaver stone circle
541:Drombeg stone circle
521:Ardgroom Stone Circle
485:Ballynoe Stone Circle
426:The Megalithic Portal
411:WAM 23 (1887), 115-16
314:Burl, Aubrey (2000).
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1080:Sheldon stone circle
737:Porlock Stone Circle
640:Stannon stone circle
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