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Tregeseal East stone circle

Prehistoric stone circle in Cornwall, England

Field	Value
name	Tregeseal East Stone Circle
image	Tregeseal east towards carn kenidjack.jpg
caption	Tregeseal East stone circle with Carn Kenidjack beyond
alt	numerous standing stones arranged in an arc in a grassy field with a hill in the background
map_type	England
map_caption	Location in England, United Kingdom
location	England, United Kingdom
relief	2
coordinates
type	Stone circle
diameter	meters
height	1.4 meters
material	Granite
built
public_access	Yes
condition	largely intact
website	https://www.cornishancientsites.com/ancient-sites/tregeseal-stone-circle/

The Tregeseal East stone circle (, meaning "Stones of the Dance"; ) is a heavily restored prehistoric stone circle around one mile northeast of the town of St Just in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The 19 granite stones are also known as The Dancing Stones. It is the one surviving circle of three that once stood aligned along an east–west axis on the hillside to the south of Carn Kenidjack.

Location

The stone circle is in west Cornwall north of the road from Penzance to St Just in Penwith and is approximately one kilometer east of the hamlet of Tregeseal.

Construction

The stone circle consists of 19 granite blocks with a height between 1 -, which describe an approximate circle with a diameter of around 21 m. Two stones are probably missing, since the circle consisted of 21 stones in earlier times. The stone circle was subjected over the centuries to substantial rebuilding and restoration work, so that today only the stones in the eastern half of the circle may be in their original positions.

The stone circle was part of a larger ritual area, similar to the area around The Merry Maidens, It consisted of a possible three stone circles in a general east–west alignment. The other two stone circles were to the west of the existing stone circle. The proposed westernmost of the three circles was detected on RAF aerial photographs from 1947; if a circle, it is much smaller in diameter than the other two and could possibly depict a hut circle instead. The middle stone circle, which originally had the largest diameter and contained ten stones in 1885, today only a single stone is to be found standing.

History

Tregeseal East stone circle from the east

Stone circles such as that at Tregeseal, were erected in the late Neolithic or in the early Bronze Age by representatives of a Megalithic culture. The first mention of the stone circle in the modern times is found in the 1754 work Antiquities, historical and monumental, of the County of Cornwall by William Borlase, who reported 17 upright standing stones.

An early drawing by William Cotton in 1827 can be found in his book Illustrations of Stone Circles, Cromlehs and other remains of the Aboriginal Britons in the West of Cornwall. At that time, some of the standing stones in the other stone circles were still visible. William Borlase reported 15 stones in his work Naenia Cornubia of 1872, and showed the exact location of the stones.

References

(2017). "The Place-Names of the Land's End Peninsula". Penwith Press.
Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 ''Land's End'' {{ISBN. 978-0-319-23148-7
[http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/celynog/Cornwall/tregeseal.htm Tregeseal (East) Stone Circle] {{Webarchive. link. (2012-10-18 at ''Megalithic Walks'')
[http://www.historic-cornwall.org.uk/a2m/bronze_age/stone_circle/tregeseal/tregeseal.htm Tregeseal stone circle] at historic-cornwall.org.uk

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