. . "4208583"^^ . . . . . . . . . "Swinside, which is also known as Sunkenkirk and Swineshead, is a stone circle lying beside Swinside Fell, part of Black Combe in southern Cumbria, North West England. One of around 1,300 recorded stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, it was constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that lasted from 3,300 to 900 BC, during what archaeologists categorise as the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages."@en . . . "Swinside, which is also known as Sunkenkirk and Swineshead, is a stone circle lying beside Swinside Fell, part of Black Combe in southern Cumbria, North West England. One of around 1,300 recorded stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, it was constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that lasted from 3,300 to 900 BC, during what archaeologists categorise as the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages. In this period, the Lake District \u2013 a mountainous area in which Swinside is located \u2013 saw particularly high levels of stone circle construction, with other notable examples including the Castlerigg stone circle and Long Meg and Her Daughters. The original purposes of these circles is still debated, although most archaeologists concur that they were built for ritual or ceremonial reasons. Constructed from local slate, the ring has a diameter of about 93 ft 8ins (26.8m), and currently contains 55 stones, although when originally constructed there probably would have been around 60. An entrance-exit was included on the monument's south-eastern side, which was defined by the inclusion of two outer portal stones. In the Early Modern period, local folklore about the stones held that they had once been used in the construction of a church, but that the Devil continually thwarted these plans, creating the stone circle in the process. Archaeological investigation into the monument began in the early 20th century, with an excavation taking place in 1901."@en . "13120"^^ . . "\"After over a thousand years of early farming, a way of life based on ancestral tombs, forest clearance and settlement expansion came to an end. This was a time of important social changes.\""@en . . . . "1117453184"^^ . "Steinkreis von Swinside"@de . . . . . "246"^^ . . . . "Swinside"@en . . . . . . "Swinside"@en . . . . . "54.2824821472168"^^ . . . "Swinside"@en . "The entire stone circle"@en . . . . . . "right"@en . . . . . "United Kingdom Copeland#Cumbria"@en . . . . . . "Der Steinkreis von Swinside (auch Sunkenkirk \u2013 (deutsch \u201Eversunkene Kirche\u201C) Circle genannt) liegt im Lake District in Cumbria in England. Der \u00E4ltere Name Swineshead leitet sich von Swynesheud, Schweineweide ab. Es gibt keine datierenden Funde."@de . . "Swinside es una aldea sita junto a , parte de , en el sur de Cumbria, Inglaterra. Se destaca por el c\u00EDrculo de piedras de Swinside que se encuentra cerca, un c\u00EDrculo casi perfecto de poco menos de 29 metros de di\u00E1metro. El c\u00EDrculo es tambi\u00E9n conocido como Sunkenkirk, a ra\u00EDz de la leyenda que dice que el diablo hizo que las piedras se hundieran en el suelo para evitar su utilizaci\u00F3n para construir los cimientos de una iglesia."@es . . . "Swinside"@es . . . . "-3.273844957351685"^^ . . . . "Der Steinkreis von Swinside (auch Sunkenkirk \u2013 (deutsch \u201Eversunkene Kirche\u201C) Circle genannt) liegt im Lake District in Cumbria in England. Der \u00E4ltere Name Swineshead leitet sich von Swynesheud, Schweineweide ab. Es gibt keine datierenden Funde."@de . "Archaeologist and prehistorian Mike Parker Pearson on the Late Neolithic in Britain"@en . . . . . . . . "Swinside es una aldea sita junto a , parte de , en el sur de Cumbria, Inglaterra. Se destaca por el c\u00EDrculo de piedras de Swinside que se encuentra cerca, un c\u00EDrculo casi perfecto de poco menos de 29 metros de di\u00E1metro. El c\u00EDrculo es tambi\u00E9n conocido como Sunkenkirk, a ra\u00EDz de la leyenda que dice que el diablo hizo que las piedras se hundieran en el suelo para evitar su utilizaci\u00F3n para construir los cimientos de una iglesia."@es . . . . . . . . . . "#ACE1AF"@en . . "Location in Copeland Borough##Location in Cumbria"@en . . . . . . . . "POINT(-3.2738449573517 54.282482147217)"^^ . "54.2824823 -3.2738449" . . . . . . . . . .