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Unexcavated stone circles in United Kingdom · Mysteria

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Unexcavated stone circles in United Kingdom

4 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Hjaltadans (Haltadans) Stone Circle

Early Bronze Age · Shetland Bronze Age

Fetlar's 11-stone circle (~9 m) on moorland ridge — one of Shetland's few stone circles.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Callanish III (Cnoc Fillibhir Bheag)

Late Neolithic · Hebridean Late Neolithic

Concentric double circle (13.7 m outer) with inner 4-stone ring and cairn, 500 m SE of Callanish I.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Gowk Hill Stone Circle

Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age (2500–1500 BCE) · Recumbent Stone Circle builders

Gowk Hill stone circle on a ridge west of Insch, Aberdeenshire, an upland circle of eight granitic boulders enclosing a slight interior cairn, part of the Aberdeenshire recumbent circle concentration…

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Callanish IV — Garynahine Stone Circle

Late Neolithic (2900–2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic Hebridean

Lewis's Callanish IV, 3 km S of Callanish I, with elliptical setting and cairn, excavated depression 1960s.