Stone circle in East Anglian village?

Evening Star (UK) ^ | Friday, June 12, 2009 | Laurence Cawley

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A qualified surveyor claims a picturesque village on the Essex/Suffolk border might boast the only proper stone circle outside the west of England. For generations the sarcen stones at Alphamstone near Sudbury have been at the centre of hot debate as to whether they were ever part of a stone circle. There are two stones marking the entrance to St Barnabas Church and a number of others further back near - and in - the church, but they form neither a circle nor part of a circle. But Paul Daw, a surveyor who has visited more than 300 of the 400 or so stone circles, timber circles and henge sites in England, believes he might have found the original location of a stone circle in the churchyard using the ancient technique of dowsing. He believes the stones which visitors to the church can see have been moved away from a once-standing circle in a corner of the churchyard... "The find of a stone circle in East Anglia is unique, as all of England's other stone circles, of which there were nearly 400, all occur in the West Country, the area once known as Wessex, the Pennines and in Cumbria. "On the eastern side of England, circular earth monuments such as henges and causewayed enclosures, and the occasional timber circle, were built during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age periods."

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Paul Daw in the churchyard of St Barnabas Church in Alphamstone	Two of the original stones

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Castlerigg Stone Circle

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"I say there my man...whatever are you doing?"
"I am dowsing sir. I am a dowser."
"Ahh yes. Fine family, what. Heard good things about them."
"No no no...I locate things by means of a piece of wood and magnetics."
"My word! Learn that in university did you?"
"Oh no...learned if from a caravan. Quite handy sometimes."
"Are you paid for this?"
"Rarely...rarely."
"Quite...quite."

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I liked the subtle understatement in the article. :’)

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Thanks!