Nine Stones (Winterbourne Abbas)
The Nine Stones of "Winterbourne Abbas" (also called Nine Ladies or The Devil's Nine Stones ) are an oval stone circle on the A35 (road), eight kilometers west of Dorchester , in Dorset , England .
Not to be confused with Nine Stanes (also called "Garrol wood" or "Mulloch wood") in Kincardineshire or Ninestane Rig both in Scotland or Nine Stones (Belstone) in Devon or Nine Stones (Altarnun) in Cornwall .
The Circle of Winterbourne Abbas is a small circle about 9.0 by 7.8 meters in diameter. It consists of seven stones less than a meter high and the entrance on the northwest side, which is flanked by two larger stones. One is a slender column over two meters high. The other is a roughly square block about 1.8 m high. The two smallest stones in the circle are opposite the entrance.
The antiquarian John Aubrey described another circle about half a mile to the west in the 17th century, which has been destroyed. A fallen stone, two meters long, known as the "Broad Stone", lies half-buried next to the road.
literature
- Aubrey Burl: The Stone Circles of the British Isles . Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 1976, ISBN 0-300-01972-6 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 43.9 " N , 2 ° 33 ′ 9.9" W.