The Devil's Quoits late Neolithic/early Bronze Age stone circle and henge monument
       
     
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The whole stone circle and an outlier
       
     
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The Devil's Quoits late Neolithic/early Bronze Age stone circle and henge monument
       
     
The Devil's Quoits late Neolithic/early Bronze Age stone circle and henge monument

This is a modern reconstruction of the site as it would have appeared around the time of the Roman Conquest of Britain. Many of the 36 stones which make up the circle had either been tumbled, destroyed (the fate of many ancient sites linked with the Devil) or pushed into the henge ditch in Medieval times. The final indignity was the levelling of the site to build the RAF Stanton Harcourt airfield at the beginning of the Second World War. Then back between 2002 and 2008 Oxford Archaeology and a local aggregates company rebuilt the monument. It remains a strange place , mainly due to its proximity to landfill tips, aggregate extraction lakes and a recycling business (maybe that’s apt!) Sadly there’s virtually no evidence of the other monuments which made up the ritual landscape which once thrived here and included burial mounds, a wooden circle and graves and pits containing funerary offerings.

DSI_3703.jpg
       
     
The whole stone circle and an outlier
       
     
The whole stone circle and an outlier
DSI_3733.jpg
       
     
DSI_3740.jpg