Cycoliths (Stone circles)

Connected Sites: 11

Definition
Multiple stones (ie not "monoliths") erected in an approximate circle and never covered by earth (ie not "dolmens")

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Connected Sites

  • Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.57
    122
    7
    Gavarnie
  • Stonehenge and Avebury
    Inscribed: 1986
    3.75
    434
    18
  • Caral-Supe
    Inscribed: 2009
    3.41
    62
    8
  • Brú na Bóinne
    Inscribed: 1993
    3.63
    204
    11
    A circle of standing stones also surrounds Newgrange. .. excavation have shown that one of the stones of the circle lies directly on top of the Early Bronze Age Pit Circle. (see link)
    See www.worldheritageireland.ie
  • Megaliths of Carnac
    Inscribed: 2025
    3.41
    74
    5
    "A variety of monumental stone structures, such as menhirs, standing stone (or stelae) alignments, stone circles, cairns, and tombs of different types covered by tumuli or simple mounds, were constructed in specific locations, in relation to the topographical features and the spatial and visual interconnections between the megaliths themselves." (AB Ev)
  • Wadi Rum
    Wadi Rum
    Jordan
    Inscribed: 2011
    3.97
    230
    8
    Several stone circles with a larger stone standing in the centre, located in the foothills of Jebel Umm Ishrin and Jebel Rum, have been identified as pre-Islamic shrines (AB ev)
  • Stone Circles of Senegambia
    Inscribed: 2006
    2.45
    35
    3
    "The circles of stones proposed for inscription represent the totality of the megalithic area in which the presence of such a large number of circles is a unique manifestation of construction and funerary practices which persisted for over a millennium" (OUV)
  • Solovetsky Islands
    Inscribed: 1992
    3.43
    22
    2
    stone alignments and circles
  • Neolithic Orkney
    Neolithic Orkney
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.79
    109
    11
    Ring of Brodgar
  • Jomon Prehistoric Sites
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.50
    40
    4
    "ritual places including earthworks and large stone circles reaching diameters of more than 50 metres" (Official description) Examples of this are Component Parts 010 (Komakino Stone Circle), 011 (Isedotai Stone Circles) and 012 (Oyu Stone Circles). (Nomination file, p. 68, 73, 78)
  • Frontiers of the Roman Empire
    Frontiers of the Roman Empire
    Germany, United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1987
    2.81
    352
    20
    Hadrians Wall, Location 430ter-182 "Stone circle, defended settlement, Romano-British farmstead & field system, Roman camp & group of shielings immediately south of Greenlee Lough" (UNESCO)