Litton Cheney

Litton Cheney
Chris Downer · CC BY-SA 2.0

A possible Bronze Age stone circle or timber circle site near Litton Cheney village in Dorset, England. In the 1930s, Stuart and Cecily Piggott surveyed the site and identified a shallow ditch enclosing an oval area of roughly 75 by 63 feet, with circular depressions suggesting twelve stones may have originally stood here. A second nearby feature (Litton Cheney 2) comprised a 47-foot diameter ditch with a sarsen stone. Archaeological remains date to 2200-1400 BC, and researcher Peter Knight (1996) identified possible astronomical alignments to solstice events.

TypeStone circle
Period4500 - 3000 BC
CountryEngland
Coordinates50.7141° N, 2.6358° W

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