Photo Essay: Celebrate the Solstice with Stone Circles Around Britain

Heres a small antiquated British impulse for your own solstice jubilee this Jun 21st.

Each year in late June, Stonehenge draws a sizable throng to a Salisbury Plain to applaud a day which people have been receiving note of for thousands of years. Whether we believe a summer solstice represents a joining of kinetic energy or simply a longest day of a year, it was clearly critical to a antiquated inhabitants of Great Britain.

The mill circles of Stonehenge as well as Avebury which have been theorized to have charted vital astronomical events similar to a solstices as well as equinoxes get many of a press, but there have been tighten to 1,000 such sites via a Isles. Below have been a little shots of both a vast names as well as others we competence not have listened of. For some-more info upon any of them, check out a Stone Pages.

Stonehenge solstice party

1. Stonehenge
Though well-visited any day of a year, Stonehenge is impressed during a solstices. This was a stage upon Jun 21, 2009. Below is a important site during a some-more contemplative moment.
Photo: vintagedept

Quiet Stonehenge

Photo: jonrawlinson

Callanish station stones, Scotland

2. Callanish
The vast station stones in this dilemma of Scotlands Outer Hebrides date from 1800 BC. They share a belligerent with younger, some-more active residents, as shown below.
Photo: photojenni

Ram during Callanish

Photo: Donald Macleod

Stanton Drew

3. Stanton Drew
The largest of Stanton Drews three mill circles is 112 meters in diameter, Englands second biggest.
Photo: Hardo

Swinside

4. Swinside
Lying in Cumbria, near Englands Lake District, Swinside is a single of a best recorded circles in Western Europe.
Photo: SalePhotoSociety

Avebury stones

5. Avebury
Avebury is a worlds largest circle, as well as a stones run through partial of a town of a same name, creation them really most partial of daily life, as seen below.
Photo: markbarky

Avebury sheep

Photo: Andrew Stawarz

Merry Maidens

6. Merry Maidens
Legend says which 19 maidens were incited to mill in this Cornwall meadow for dancing upon a Sunday. The petrified band stands nearby.
Photo: Le Petit Poulailler

Castlerigg with snow

7. Castlerigg
Castlerigg is a single of Britains oldest circles as well as lies upon a mountain between some-more recently assembled mill walls in Lake District sheep country.
Photo: alancleaver_2000

The Hurlers, Cornwall

8. The Hurlers
More collateral petrification a Hurlers have been said t! o have b een held playing ball upon a Sunday.
Photo: Le Petit Poulailler

Merrivale station stone

9. Merrivale
The site during Merrivale includes a to some extent recorded circle, a couple mill rows, as well as this station stone.
Photo: Le Petit Poulailler

Ring of Brodgar, Scotland

10. Ring of Brodgar
Brodgars twenty-seven remaining stones, upon Scotlands Orkney Mainland, stand as tall as 15 feet.
Photo: brockvicky

Long Meg station stone

11. Long Meg
Long Meg stands during twelve feet as well as presides over a vast round of 60 of her daughters, dual of which have been shown below.
Photo: Joccay

Long Meg's daughters

Photo: alllyballly

Rollright stones

12. Rollrights
The Rollrights have up a site nearly as complex as Stonehenge, with a circle, a vast station stone, as well as a burial chamber.
Photo: Keith@Fibonacci

Sunhoney mill circle, Scotland

13. Sunhoney
This Scottish site is tangible by a stand of trees which approximate a damaged as well as recumbent stones.
Photo: stusmith_uk

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