Day House Lane Stone Circle

Day House Lane Stone Circle, also known as Coate Stone Circle, is a stone circle near the hamlet of Coate, now on the southeastern edge of Swindon, in the English county of Wiltshire [1]. Five partly buried stones remain at the site [1]. A circle of sarsen megaliths, Day House Lane Stone Circle probably had an original diameter of about 69 metres and possibly contained over thirty stones [1]. It was one of at least seven stone circles that are known to have been erected in the area south of Swindon in northern Wiltshire [1]. The earliest known reference to the site was made by the local writer Richard Jefferies in the 1860s [1]. When the antiquarian A. D. Passmore investigated the site during the 1890s he found nine stones, mostly buried [1]. He observed a line of five stones not far from the circle's northern end, suggesting that these were part of a prehistoric avenue connected to the circle; these too no longer existed by the 21st century [1].