Hoarstones
The Hoarstones (also called Hoar Stone Circle, Black Marsh, Hemford or Marsh Pool Circle) form a stone circle in "Chirbury with Brompton" in Shropshire , England .
The stone circle has a diameter of about 22.0 meters and consists of 37 stones and a central stone, all of which are made of dolerite and less than a meter high. The stone circle lies on a southeast slope with swampy bottom, not far from the northern end of a former glacial lake of which the Marsh Pool is a holdover. There are two small mounds in the northwest of the circle that may be remains of burial mounds.
Holes are drilled in some stones, these date from the time when local miners used the stones at wedding parties by filling the holes with gunpowder and setting fire to it.
The Hoarstones may have an association with the similar circle near Mitchell's Fold and with a third circle formerly known as the Whetstones.
Hoar Stone is the name of a longbarrow west of Cirencester in Gloucestershire , the Hoar Stone chamber tomb is in Oxfordshire and a chamber tomb is located at Stepple Barton in West Oxfordshire.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ′ 33.6 " N , 2 ° 59 ′ 57.6" W.