Devil's Quoits Stone Circle at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire
Stanton Harcourt Stone Circle known as the Devil's Quoits. By the 1940s only 3 standing stones were still in position, these were removed to make way for the wartime airfield at Stanton Harcourt. The circle has been reconstructed using 8 original stones and 21 new ones from the local quarry at Ducklington. An 1890's photo by Henry Taunt shows him standing by the surviving large standing stone.
Directions: Via the recycling centre. OR leave Stanton Harcourt in southern direction road to Standlake. Just outside the village there is a cemetery, park in lay by opposite, take the footpath though abandoned Stanton Harcourt WW2 Airfield, go through gateway into waste land DO NOT take footpath to left, carry on heading towards lake, go through more gates until you reach lakeside turn clockwise (left) round the lake on permissive footpath, reach stone circle after 300 meters. Take care not to leave marked footpaths as this is a working recycling restoration area with multiple dangers.
28th August 2016 The Devil's Quoits Stone Circle
CoopBox 15 session in this awesome Neolithic monument, the weather came in fast sorry for the short length of this session, but future expeditions to investigate this location will be coming soon.
This amazing re-constructed henge and stone circle, the Devil's Quoits was once one of many monuments in the area around Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, now only this great monument to the past remains, the other barrows and tumuli have long since been destroyed because of gravel extraction.
The Devil's (saturn,s) Quoits modern henge stone circle
Excavations at the Devil's Quoits, Stanton Harcourt, 1972-3 and 1988 @
Stone Circles @
A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany @
The Use and Reuse of Stone Circles @
The Devil's Quoits modern henge stone circle
Built between 2002 and 2008
The modern stone circle hendge is said to be on the site of a ancient one. It is said else where that it was Destroyed by farmers in the medieval times. Flattered by building a WW2 airport runway & a rubbish land fill site and now gravel extraction site which you can see now. It is also claimed that this was a late neolithic complex. The hendge or stone circle can not be seen in the black and white photos of over 100 years old. It is also said only one was standing and that was stood up right back then not in ancient times.
What ever was here is long gone and unlikely never know what it looked like.
Near Oxford
Stanton Harcourt
Oxfordshire
England
UK
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Music in this video from
Devils Quoits modem stone circle 2010 slideshow
Excavations at the Devil's Quoits, Stanton Harcourt, 1972-3 and 1988 @
Stone Circles @
A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany @
The Use and Reuse of Stone Circles @
The Devil's Quoits modern henge stone circle
Built between 2002 and 2008
The modern stone circle hendge is said to be on the site of a ancient one. It is said else where that it was Destroyed by farmers in the medieval times. Flattered by building a WW2 airport runway & a rubbish land fill site and now gravel extraction site which you can see now. It is also claimed that this was a late neolithic complex. The hendge or stone circle can not be seen in the black and white photos of over 100 years old. It is also said only one was standing and that was stood up right back then not in ancient times.
What ever was here is long gone and unlikely never know what it looked like.
Near Oxford
Stanton Harcourt
Oxfordshire
England
UK
Please if your going buy any thing from amazon use the amazon link @ it is no extra cost to you and i make a % that will help me make more videos in future. Ta
Music in this video from
The Devils Quoits
This is is a recently reconstructed Henge of 28 stones as it would have appeared in approx 43AD.
Ancient Upturned Face Megalith Devil's Quoits Neolithic Stone Circle Oxfordshire England
Ancient Upturned Face Megalith Devil's Quoits Neolithic Stone Circle Oxfordshire England
THE DEVIL'S QUOITS - Circle Henge in Oxfordshire | with Rupert Soskin | 1080p version
Discover this little-known but hugely important megalithic site with writer and presenter, Rupert Soskin.
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The Devil's Quoits is a little-know yet massively important circle henge just west of Oxford. The story is one not only of a monument to rival the likes of Brodgar, Arbor Low or Knowlton Henge, for example, but also about how a site that was essentially lost has been painstakingly restored to at least some of its former glory.
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Stanton Drew - ancient stone circles in Somerset, England
Gordon Strong (Stanton Drew boffin) talks about the stones, their history and their spiritual connections. gordonstrong.co.uk
RAF Long Newnton Parachute Store
A look inside the parachute store at RAF Long Newnton.
This WW2 airfield was opened in 1941 after being developed from a Q site (night decoy airfield). It was only ever used by Training Command & finally closed in about 1950.
Note the faded chalkboards on the wall.
Ley Hunting in Oxfordshire
Ley alignments found during the Network of Ley Hunters' Moot at Oxford in May 2016, which include a ley centre in south Oxford which is the meeting point of a ley through Oxford found by Alfred Watkins (discoverer of leys), one by Laurence Main with sites associated with Winston Churchill, and one from the Rollright Stones. Visits to Oxfordshire sites Waylands Smithy, Uffington Castle, White Horse Hill, Dragon Hill and the Rollright Stones with Caroline Hoare and Gary Biltcliffe revealed the energy streams in the landscape, and there is a talk by Bart O'Farrell at Waylands Smithy about dowsing the energies at ancient stones.
Bit off history in Oxfordshire
Ww2 bunker
Witney Pub Crawl
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Moel ty Uchaf Stone Circle on a perfect Summer's Day
Bronze Age cairn circle near Llandrillo, North Wales
No more than boys
Documentary photography project of RAF Broadwell in Oxfordshire and RAF Chedworth in Gloucestershire. Both WWII airfields now abandoned.
Further photography at
Dad's Memory of World War Two
My Dad recalls his only memory of WW2 - an assault glider crashing near the village in Oxfordshire where his family were living.
Stanton Harcourt Ukulele Orchestra: David Bowie
The legend of Stanton Drew.
The megaliths of the Stanton Drew stone circles, about 19 miles north of Glastonbury, Somerset, England.
The circles are of the Neolithic period, (New Stone Age) about 5,000 years old, with later megaliths added during the Bronze age.
The circles have a Henge, a ditch with an outer bank encompassing the site. Unfortunately, the ditch has largely silted up, but parts are still visible in this video as a ridge near a section of the NE circle, the most complete part of the complex of three. The Great circle and SW circle are in a bad condition.
Some megaliths from the Great circle; a part of one of the two processional avenues, and the smaller NE circle are seen here.
The largest megaliths are over ten feet tall. Megalith = Big stone.
The Stanton Drew megaliths are thought to be older than both Stonehenge and Avebury and the whole site is larger than both of those.
The images of the Cove are shown after the dawn pictures. These three megaliths, two upright and one broken recumbent stone, are in the garden of the Druid's arms the village pub, and are separate from the main complex. The Cove maybe a sort of redirector of Earth energy.
The legend says that people at a Wedding celebration were turned to stone by the Devil, who played his fiddle for them.
THE SONG OF STANTON DREW:
Midsummer eve it fell on a Saturday, Sue and William went to be wed. They had music played by a fiddler 'Let's go dancing,!' William said.
(Chorus)
They danced and danced and danced around They danced and danced to the fiddler's sound They danced with a skip, they danced with a hop, It seemed that nothing could make them stop. Midnight struck and then said the fiddler 'Dancing on a Sunday wouldn't be right,' Sue gave a laugh, 'Don't care if to Hell I go I'll find another fiddler tonight.'
(Chorus)
They danced and danced and danced around They danced and danced to the fiddler's sound They danced with a skip, they danced with a hop, It seemed that nothing could make them stop. Off went the fiddler, left them all grumbling, Then another fiddler came along the way. 'You'd like to dance and I'd like to play for you' Tunes he played both merry and gay.
(Chorus)
They danced and danced and danced around They danced and danced to the fiddler's sound. They danced with a skip, they danced with a hop, It seemed that nothing could make them stop. 'Stop' cried the dancers, 'NO' cried the fiddler, He kept on in spite of their moans. They couldn't stop their jerking and a stumbling, Then in a flash, He turned them into stones.
(Chorus)
They danced and danced and danced around They danced and danced to the fiddler's sound They danced with a skip, they danced with a hop, It seemed that nothing could make them stop. Stanton Drew in the County of Somerset That's where the Devil played at Sue's request, They paid the price for dancing on a Sunday. Now they are standing evermore at rest.
Copied from an ancient text by Kim Ravenscroft; she died in a motorcycle accident in 1998. R I P.
The music here is by the US based singer, Pamela Wyn Shannon, who not only sings, but also plays some of the instruments.
She is the finest folk singer of the last thirty years.
She wrote and is performing Netherworld here, the most sombre track from her album Courting Autumn a fabulous album full of emotion and light. It's of the English and Irish folk music genre, and performed wonderfully.
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Circle Sanctuary in Wisconsin
Special Edit for Selena Fox
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SCOD members Cordite and Drogo Visit the Legendary Circle Sanctuary in Wisconsin, May (Beltane) 2009.
SCODpub.com Slideshow with Music
We arrived there at the end of the Beltane Event, with the closing Maze Procession around the May Pole. Cordite had met Selena Fox before, and had been there before. Drogo met Selena for the first time, after exchanging mail from afar. Steward Selena Fox allowed photos during a brief tour, and meditations afterwards.
1. May Pole 2. Hilltop Cemetery 3. Hilltop Stone Circle 4. Hillside Path Woodland Rocks 5. Hillside Cliff
Altars: God & Goddess Photo & Video Permission by Selena Fox Photos by Drogo and Cordite Music by Drogo and Friends
Neve a Witney / Snow in Witney
Neve a Witney / Snow in Witney
WW2 Hurricane
WW2 Hurricane flying over Oxfordshire