Devil's Quoits

The Devil's Quoits is a henge and stone circle to the south of the village of Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, England [1]. The Quoits were restored between 2002 and 2008, with new stones added, and the surrounding earthworks rebuilt [1]. The henge is a major class II circle henge monument of Late Neolithic date [1]. The henge ditch enclosed a circular area up to 120 metres across, with opposed entrances facing almost due east and west [1]. The northern half of the henge appears to have had a second enclosing ditch circuit [1]. Within the henge was a stone circle and a central stone setting which may have been put up after the henge had been in use for some time, in the Early Bronze Age [1]. The stone circle had a slightly ovoid plan, with a maximum diameter of 79 metres, and followed the same axis as the henge itself [1]. It originally featured 36 stones, most of which were removed by the end of the Medieval period [1].