Ipswich

Ipswich modern circle
Ipswich
Type:modern circle
Country:England
County:Suffolk
Grid Ref:TM138474
Latitude:52.083180
Longitude:1.120786
Accuracy:to 70m (NGR derived)
Datum:OSGB36
OS Map:OS Landranger sheet 169, Ipswich & the Naze
Date:February 2004
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This modern site gracing a roundabout is a pleasant megalithic surprise in East Anglia, a region otherwise bereft of standing stones. This stone circle is roughly a semicircle, in the corner between two lines of retail units. It improves an otherwise unlovely retail estate outside B & Q and Comet. The stones were installed when the site was built in the late 1990s, left in the original natural attractive dark grey with a hint of purple. A couple of years after installation some twit with no aesthetic sensibility had the stones varnished, but the weather is slowly making good, restoring them to the original form. A panoramic view is available
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