Hoarstones

The Hoarstones, or Hoar Stone Circle, is a stone circle in the civil parish of Chirbury with Brompton in the English county of Shropshire [1]. The Hoarstones are part of a tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages, over a period between 3300 and 900 BCE [1]. The Hoarstones are one of up to five stone circles known from this area, on the borders between Shropshire and Powys [1]. Of these, only the Hoarstones and Mitchell's Fold survive [1]. The Hoarstones contains between 38 and 40 stones, arranged in an elliptical fashion [1]. Just south of the centre of the circle is a single stone, measuring around 1 metre (3 feet) high; it is unclear if this is an original prehistoric feature of the monument or a later addition [1]. Around 1897, a Mr Jarrett ploughed up a perforated sandstone axe-head from the field immediately to the south of the circle [1].