Monument record MDO1369 - Stone circle in the Valley of the Stones, Littlebredy

A roughly circular area from which the surface stones have been cleared and set around the edges. In 1952 this feature was described as roughly 33 feet by 24 feet.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 38 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(7) STONE RINGS, in the Valley of Stones towards the S.E. angle of the parish, are two in number. Both form an oval clearing made by removing the loose stones from the ground-surface and setting them round the perimeter. The more southerly (a), 340 yards N.E. of Black Down Barn, is 71 ft. by 59 ft.; the second (b), 620 yards N. of (a), is of indeterminate character; it is about 33 ft. by 24 ft.’

<2> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 711 (Index). SDO12304.

Permanent pasture 1/1/B.

Record last edited

Nov 4 2019 9:40AM