The NW quadrant and northern entrance. The huge stone marking this entrance is called the Diamond Stone (also known as the Swindon Stone). Its missing partner (which should be on the opposite side of the road) was even bigger.
The Diamond Stone, some 4.5m high and just as wide.
The NW arc of the outer ring again. Throughout this monument, concrete markers are used to indicate the position of stones destroyed in the past.
The SW quadrant and arc of the outer circle. The ditch of the henge would have originally been 9m deep.
The SE quadrant, with the remains of the southern inner circle and the Z setting. The small stump, centre foreground, is the remains of the Ring Stone.
“Not of great bulk, it has a hole wrought in it, and probably was design’d to fasten the victim, in order for slaying it. This I call the ring-stone.“
William Stukeley (1687-1765)
The Z setting. The large concrete marker on the right of the picture signifies the position of the Obelisk Stone.
The southern inner circle had a diameter of 102m.
In the NE quadrant, 2 huge stones remain standing of the Cove, positioned at the centre of the northern inner circle (or horseshoe).
Obligatory photo, seated in the Devil’s Chair by the southern entrance, leading to the Kennet Avenue…
15m wide, the Kennet Avenue runs from the southern henge entrance for over 800m.
Originally this stretched for one and a half miles to the Sanctuary.