The Bridestones

The Bridestones
Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). · CC BY-SA 4.0

The Bridestones is a chambered cairn near Congleton, Cheshire, England, constructed in the Neolithic period approximately 3500–2400 BC [1]. When described in 1764, it measured 110 metres long and 11 metres wide, containing three separate compartments of which only one survives today [1]. The remaining compartment is 6 metres long by 2.7 metres wide and consists of vertical stone slabs divided by a now-broken cross slab [1].

TypeCairn
Period4500 - 3000 BC
CountryEngland
Coordinates53.1570° N, 2.1421° W

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