#1121 Aubrey Burl - Megalithic Brittany: A Guide to over 350 Ancient Sites and Monuments. Thames & Hudson, London, 1985, 1st edition.

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The Druid's Altar is a very unusual monument. A round cairn with three standing stones (and a fourth stump) and a central stone set into the top. It has been classified as a four poster stone circle, a type of monument more common in Scotland, but it's not really like anything I've been to before.

Superb weather for an 8 mile up and back walk from Threshfield, taking in some limestone pavement on Malham Moor.

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14 miles of sweltering hot southwest Dartmoor, from Shaugh Prior to Yelverton, taking in 3 tors and numerous prehistoric sites. Finally got to visit Trowlesworthy Warren stone rows and cairn circles, an itch I've wanted to scratch for a very long time, as well as revisiting old favourites Ringmoor Down and Brisworthy stone circle.

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Bonus stones for #StandingStoneSunday - the wonderful Nine Stones Close in the Peak District.

Four tall stones remain of this ring, the tallest of any of the Peak District's many stone circles. It has a visual interrelationship with Robin Hood's Stride, a gritstone tor described by Aubrey Burl as resembling a hippopotamus.

Visited just now, on a muggy afternoon.

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