Legend says this stone circle was once a wedding party. 💍 The guests danced through the night, ignored the Sabbath, and were frozen where they stood. The great circle became the dancers. The smaller stones the musicians. The bride and groom left together in stone. In reality, Stanton Drew stone circle is over 4,000 years old. One of the largest stone circle complexes in Britain, it was built as part of a prehistoric ritual landscape, likely used for gathering, ceremony, and marking seasonal tim

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Stanton Drew stone circle was built around 3000 BCE as part of a large prehistoric ritual landscape. Multiple stone circles and standing stones suggest this was a place for gathering, ceremony, and marking the seasons rather than a single monument. Long before later religions, people used places like this to connect with the land, time, and community through repeated ritual and movement. Centuries later, local folklore claimed the stones were once a wedding party turned to stone for dancing thro

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