Withypool Stone Circle

Withypool Stone Circle, also known as Withypool Hill Stone Circle, is a stone circle located on the Exmoor moorland, near the village of Withypool in the southwestern English county of Somerset [1]. The ring is part of a tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age [1]. The Withypool ring is located on the south-western slope of Withypool Hill, on an area of heathland [1]. It is about 36.4 metres in diameter [1]. Around thirty small gritstones remain, although there may originally have been around 100; there are conspicuous gaps on the northern and western sides of the monument [1]. The site was rediscovered in 1898 and surveyed by the archaeologist Harold St George Gray in 1905 [1]. The site is 381 metres above sea level [1].