The monument comprises about 20 stones ranging from over 2.5 metres to approximately 1.5 metres in height and includes a balanced horizontal stone resting on a number of smaller stones. The monument lies in Kings Meadow at the far south of the area enclosed by the Glastonbury Festival. The stone circle at Glastonbury is a megalithic monument located at the site of Worthy Farm (map reference ST590397) situated in a valley lying between two low sandstone ridges. 141-168.)Ī short video about Stone Circles, the Swan Circle and how we found out what it means to people…. Festival Cultures Mapping New Fields in the Arts and Social Sciences, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. Festivals: monument making, mythologies and memory. Our research resulted in a short video (see below) and a book chapter ( Mulville, Jacqueline and Brayshay, Barbara 2021. We took a number of ‘fieldtrips’ to the monument during the festival to undertake a pilot survey followed up with interviews, where possible, of those involved in the circles construction and those who visit the site.
We produced this introductory text drawn from various web-based sources, and from the publication by Ivan McBeth (in 1992 and reprinted in 2016 – available here), as a starting point for a contemporary archaeological analysis of the site. Guerilla Archaeology have enjoyed an in-depth study of the Glastonbury stone circle. There is a saying that people in the UK will visit Stonehenge three times in their lives: once as a child, once as a parent and once as a grandparent in comparison many people visit the Glastonbury stone circle numerous times in their life. Estimates of the numbers of people gathering at the Glastonbury stone circle are subject to speculation, however with a large proportion of the hundreds of thousands of people at festival visiting the stone circle it’s influence and draw is undisputed.Ĭompared to Stonehenge, a site where a maximum of around 20,000 people are able attend the managed Solstice event at Stonehenge, (the only time that people are allowed within the circle) the Swan Circle sees some heavy traffic. The Glastonbury stone circle is a recent monument on the British landscape, yet it is one that is visited by huge numbers of people over a very short period of time.
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