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Stanton Drew

Near Bristol, Somerset

A wedding party that danced into the Sabbath, and paid for it.

The Great Circle at Stanton Drew is the second largest in Britain after Avebury. In 1997 a magnetic survey revealed nine rings of buried pits beneath it, once holding giant timber posts.

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When
c. 2500 BC
Where
51.3672, -2.5764
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

English Heritage, small fee. The Cove stands behind the village pub.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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