![]() The stones are famously uncountable, but originally may have numbered about 105 standing shoulder to shoulder. Legends refer to stones having been taken away (to make bridges and the like), and it is likely that this created most of the gaps now visible. The number of stones has changed over the years. More recently, Aubrey Burl called them “seventy-seven stones, stumps and lumps of leprous limestone”. They were poetically described by William Stukeley as being “corroded like worm eaten wood, by the harsh Jaws of Time” they were said to make “a very noble, rustic, sight, and strike an odd terror upon the spectators, and admiration at the design of ‘em”. At present there are seventy-odd stones of heavily weathered local oolitic limestone (see Geology) set in a rather irregular ring about 31m across. This ceremonial stone circle was erected around 2,500BC. The King’s Men The Kings men stone circle ![]()
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