Overview
Fernworthy Stone Circle is shown and named in a reusable Geograph picture. The saved point is the picture's recorded map point.
Who made it and when
The saved record identifies Fernworthy Stone Circle as Ancient stone or rock art. It does not safely name its makers or a precise construction date. The saved detailed account records: Fernworthy Stone Circle is shown and named in a reusable Geograph picture. The saved point is the picture's recorded map point.
How it was made and used
Its classification points to ritual, marking, defence or gathering. The saved wording does not establish the full building method, ceremonies or length of use, so those details remain open.
What was found
No safe list of excavated objects, bones, carvings or dates is supplied by the short saved record. Finds are not invented from the place type or local name.
What remains
The public record still maps Fernworthy Stone Circle as Ancient stone or rock art. The point may mark standing remains, earthworks, a buried site or the centre of a wider area, and this first account keeps that difference visible.
Why it mattered
The place preserves physical evidence or local memory connected with ancient stone or rock art. Its source and exact position give later research a firm starting point without turning uncertain tradition into fact.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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- Dispersed stone hut circle settlement and associated fields 490m south east of Silk Housemonument0.8 miles
- Stonetor Hill Cairn Circlemonument0.8 miles
- Cairn and cist on the northern side of Fernworthy Reservoir, 660m north west of Metherallmonument0.8 miles
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