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King Arthur's Downs Circular Enclosure - Possible Henge?

What looks to me like a henge with an entrance at the NNE and another half (finished) henge to the SE, After seeing this on the LiDAR I looked on Heritage Gateway and even though they'd recorded the place they mention everything but a henge!! Anyhow they write: (About the full possible henge) A circular enclosure, possibly Prehistoric, has been picked up on Lidar. It measures over 50m in diameter and could represent a large barrow, a round or even possibly a stone circle.

Bjerne Mark Megalitgrav

A freestanding dolmen chamber near Svendborg oriented NNE / SSW, with an opening in the south. Two orthostats (upright stones) on each long side. The one in the NW was split in ancient times, one part lying inside the chamber.

Menhir de Kerdelec

This 2 metre tall stone has been moved and re-erected - it has a somewhat human shape. The makeshift sign next to it reads: 'Mother Goddess, 5,000 years old'. At the entrance to this estate and distillery are three more menhirs, see the entry for Menhirs de Kerdelec in the nearby sites list on our page.

Huntingdon Warren Settlement

The oblong shapes on the LiDAR are pillow mounds (built in Medieval times for rabbits). Photos of the settlement are on our page. Noticed while walking around the southern slopes of Huntingdon Warren (Dartmoor) the settlement faces south with views to the Avon Dam and the junction of the West Walla Brook with the R. Avon to the SE.

Bjerne Stenoldgård Runddysse

Is it Christmas yet?. A freestanding Runddysse (dolmen chamber), rectangular, not polygonal in shape. Oriented NNE / SSW, with opening an opening in the south.
Two capstones on each long side. (The NW is split)
in older times, one part lying inside the chamber) and one
threshold stone in N.
Capstone partially tipped down in NW as a result of the broken orthostat.

Northern Earth 181, Autumn 2025, is out now

In this issue:

Frank Edmund Earp 1951–2025: Bob Trubshaw honours a leading light of earth mysteries in Nottinghamshire
Some old stones of Portugal’s Land’s End: Ulrich Magin goes hunting for some elusive European megaliths
The NE interview: Lally MacBeth , the author of the new book The Lost Folk
Reflections in stone: Amy Tryphena encounters Cornwall’s smallest stone circle
The wolf that wasn’t: Rosemary Pardoe questions a strange feature in a Suffolk church
Getting it down on tape: John Billingsley gets entangled with hedge tape theory
Synergies of Powys in Gwynedd : Rob Stepney went on a publishing quest, and the omens were on his side
Hiding in plain sight: N and S letter reversals: Greg Huber begins a two-part study of some intriguing symbols
Mind the gap: NE’s editor reflects on a famous tree

Ek (Onsøy)

I had no idea about this stone circle before I went to seek help from a local farmer to find the nearby rock art site at Onsøy when she told me to follow this country road and where to find the stone circle! This one does not appear in any official website or articles. It is located in an open area in the forest and no large trees appear inside the circle.

Steinplatte Mittelberg

A hillfort on the Mittelberg hill in North Rhine-Westphalia, this chunky rock is close to the hillfort, it has cup marks and other signs of human working.

Menhir La Motte de Beurre

This menhir is broken in two, each part about 1.8m (6 ft) long. Only one is standing, it has a bird carved on it, shown in full flight, superposed over a white quartz vein. A crook, also in cut-away engraving, bars its passage. The name means: pat of butter as you may know.

Løkenveien Løken-Nordre

This medium-sized but pretty round barrow is just next to the main country road 40km south of Oslo. Five large pine trees are growing on the barrow but otherwise the barrow is covered only with short grass, making the details of the barrow easy to see. The barrow is according to kulturminnesøk 18 metres in diameter and 1.5 metres in height and appears to have no damage.