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Quiz about Stone Circles of Britain and Ireland
Quiz about Stone Circles of Britain and Ireland

Stone Circles of Britain and Ireland Quiz


Obviously all ancient sites were built long before transport became industrialized so half of these sites were even harder to complete as the locations are offshore.

A matching quiz by comark2000. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
comark2000
Time
4 mins
Type
Match Quiz
Quiz #
401,488
Updated
Jan 29 22
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
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122
(a) Drag-and-drop from the right to the left, or (b) click on a right side answer box and then on a left side box to move it.
QuestionsChoices
1. Isle of Arran; collection of Bronze Age circles and other features  
  Ballynoe
2. Orkney; Neolithic circle of 27 upright stones  
  Maughanby
3. Isle of Lewis; overlooking Loch Roag  
  Avebury
4. Orkney; over 5000 years old; possibly the earliest henge monument in the British Isles  
  Stanton Drew
5. South of Downpatrick; more than 50 stones; ring is 33 metres wide  
  Callanish
6. Near Skibbereen, County Cork; circle of 17 stone pillars  
  Ring of Brodgar
7. Cumbria; 'Long Meg & Her Daughters'; 51 stones  
  Machrie Moor
8. Somerset; 3rd-largest collection of prehistoric megaliths in England  
  Drombeg
9. Wiltshire; Neolithic stone circles dating back to 2600 BC  
  Stones of Stenness
10. Wiltshire; single Neolithic stone circle; nearly a million visitors per year  
  Stonehenge





Select each answer

1. Isle of Arran; collection of Bronze Age circles and other features
2. Orkney; Neolithic circle of 27 upright stones
3. Isle of Lewis; overlooking Loch Roag
4. Orkney; over 5000 years old; possibly the earliest henge monument in the British Isles
5. South of Downpatrick; more than 50 stones; ring is 33 metres wide
6. Near Skibbereen, County Cork; circle of 17 stone pillars
7. Cumbria; 'Long Meg & Her Daughters'; 51 stones
8. Somerset; 3rd-largest collection of prehistoric megaliths in England
9. Wiltshire; Neolithic stone circles dating back to 2600 BC
10. Wiltshire; single Neolithic stone circle; nearly a million visitors per year

Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Isle of Arran; collection of Bronze Age circles and other features

Answer: Machrie Moor

A collection of prehistoric monuments including "Fingal's Cauldron Seat" . One of the most important sites of its kind in all of Britain. The stones were erected over a long period of time, and cannot be considered as a single, cohesive monument.
2. Orkney; Neolithic circle of 27 upright stones

Answer: Ring of Brodgar

Begun around the year 2500 BCE. Composed of an outer ditch, or henge, 340 feet across, and measuring 3 metres deep and 5 metres wide, with access causeways in the south-west and north-east of the henge.
3. Isle of Lewis; overlooking Loch Roag

Answer: Callanish

A Prehistoric complex of stone avenues and lines radiating from a central circle, built around 3,000 BC on land that had already been farmed. Callanish consists of a stone circle with a double line or avenue of stones leading away to the north. Single lines of stones lead away to the other four points of the compass.
4. Orkney; over 5000 years old; possibly the earliest henge monument in the British Isles

Answer: Stones of Stenness

Four upright stones up to 6m in height in a circle that originally held 12 stones. The interior was a large hearth. The stones were encircled by a large ditch and bank, the form of which has been lost over time by ploughing.
5. South of Downpatrick; more than 50 stones; ring is 33 metres wide

Answer: Ballynoe

Large site which appears as a circle of over 50 close, upright stones, some as much as six feet tall make up this elliptical ring. The stones of the outer circle are nearly all composed of local Silurian grit, but a few are granite erratics.
6. Near Skibbereen, County Cork; circle of 17 stone pillars

Answer: Drombeg

Stones spanning 9.3 metres (31 ft) in diameter, of which 13 survive. The most westerly stone (1.9m long) is the long recumbent and has two egg shaped cup-marks, one with a ring around it. A "Cork-Kerry type" stone circle, it is flanked by a pair of 1.8m high axial portal stones, which provide a south-west axis, and orient the monument in the direction of the setting sun during the midwinter solstice.
7. Cumbria; 'Long Meg & Her Daughters'; 51 stones

Answer: Maughanby

Dates back to the early Bronze Age around 1500BC. One of the largest in north-western Europe. 'Long Meg' is a single sandstone monolith located outside of the circle which may have acted as a prehistoric sundial casting a shadow onto the circle of stones to the North East.
8. Somerset; 3rd-largest collection of prehistoric megaliths in England

Answer: Stanton Drew

Made up of three interrelated stone circles. The Great Circle is 26 upright stones and has a circumference of 355 metres. Archaeological surveys conducted in 1997 show that the remaining circles were once part of a much larger site which may have extended from the Cove as far as the Neolithic burial site known as Hautville Quoit - a distance of 825 metres.
9. Wiltshire; Neolithic stone circles dating back to 2600 BC

Answer: Avebury

The complex comprises the main circles, cove, two ceremonial avenues and numerous barrows, tumuli's and other earthworks. It's important to modern pagans as a religious site, and is also infamous for strange lights and demon myths. Many people point out that the arrangement of the avenues and the stone circles creates a distinctive serpentine shape.

The megaliths at Avebury are well known for their complex patterns made from generations of rare lichens. A recent survey noted 32 species on a single Sarsen stone.
10. Wiltshire; single Neolithic stone circle; nearly a million visitors per year

Answer: Stonehenge

Arguably Britain's most important ancient monument, it's certainly one of the UK's most important tourist destinations. Archaeologists and historians believe it was constructed between 3000 BC and 2000 BC. There have been many theories as to why the site was abandoned from around 1800 BC. They range from tribal conflicts to sickness and mass depopulation.
Source: Author comark2000

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