Stone circle
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Oct 21, 2026
Julie MontaguHOST
I'm here at Stoner Park, and it is nestled in the most beautiful secluded valley.
Julie MontaguHOST
And not only is it home to a nearly 5,000-year-old pagan stone circle, but it's been in the same family for more than 850 years.
Julie MontaguHOST
I'm just about to meet with Lord and Lady Camois, and I can't wait to hear more about this wonderful historic house.
Julie MontaguHOST
When I married into the British aristocracy, it was the start of a wonderfully exciting journey, but it was also a little daunting.
Julie MontaguHOST
This is the family home of William and Elsa Stoner, Lord and Lady Camoys.
Julie MontaguHOST
The history of Stoner is bound up with the turmoil and legacy of the English Reformation in the 16th century.
Julie MontaguHOST
But Stoner's story begins at the prehistoric stone circle where I met up with William.
Julie MontaguHOST
Julie, hi.
Nancy ThompsonGUEST
Yeah.
David EastaughHOST
Well, I did an interview with her and it was a very amusing story, which was traumatic at the time, which slightly was connected because when in the 80s, I was with a person called Helen, who was a bit older than me, and she wanted to go to the Stone Circles in Calendish and on the way stay at Calendish.
David EastaughHOST
drum the rocket with Neil Oram, who was this very eccentric hippie chap who was quite engaging and amusing.
David EastaughHOST
But when we were there and the relationship wasn't going terribly well, Helen decides to join a travelling theatre company, which kind of then means that's the end of our relationship.
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We cannot be certain, but the act itself is haunting.
speaker_11NARRATOR
A society builds monumental stone circles, uses them for centuries, then entombs them, as if it understood that the past was becoming inaccessible.
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as if it was leaving something for a future it could not imagine.
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That is why Gobekli Tepe attracts so much speculation.
Woody CookGUEST
I love being up near the Ribbon Tower.
Woody CookGUEST
It's a really good spot because you can go along the railway line in either direction you get really easily to like the stone circle at night in the southeast corner you know and basically at the end of the day and for the rest of the day you can cut off the railway tracks basically everywhere and yeah if you're there at the festival places you could possibly cite me other than just randomly everywhere I would say it's The Stone Dragon, I love going there, you know, just off of the Stone Circle.
Woody CookGUEST
Definitely the Stone Circle for sunrise, I'm usually there.
Woody CookGUEST
Sometimes Maceo's, often a specific hidden bar that's themed around the animal of a gorilla.
Woody CookGUEST
You need a certain card to get into it.
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JessiHOST
But have you had any sort of out in the punter area, like out at the stage where you bumped into someone and been like, whoa, that mega famous person?
Woody CookGUEST
For me, there's a not super mega famous, like not, you know, Harry Styles famous, but one of my, I loved high focus growing up, which is this rap thing.
Woody CookGUEST
group collective thing of underground UK rappers and the kind of figurehead guy who built all of that is a guy called Dirty Dyke and he's from Brighton and I've always been a massive fan of him and to see him just at the Stone Circle just standing there and we started chatting absolute nonsense and he was just like he was in the songs in real life just like an extension of that but better and I was like oh because you know they say don't meet your heroes but he was actually wittier and funnier in real life and I was like oh that's awesome but then like It's just insane.
RichHOST
there is evidence, there are things going on, and we need to, um, we need to get there before the trail goes cold.
Daniel MercerHOST
I can quite happily either jump straight to the stone circle, which is, I'm guessing, where you're going, or if you wanted to have a conversation en route about things, feel free.
Daniel MercerHOST
The car is probably quite a secure place, all things considered.
RichHOST
I, I think we have a lot to talk about, and I feel like there are some cards that need to be put on the table from all of us.
11 MINS LATER
Daniel MercerHOST
It could just be some people having a bonfire because it's Beltane very soon.
Daniel MercerHOST
Who knows? But there is definitely the smell of a bonfire on the, on the air as you make your way into the woods.
Daniel MercerHOST
It'll take you maybe a little bit longer than usual to find your way to the stone circle just because it's pouring with rain.
Daniel MercerHOST
It's very dark out.
AndyHOST
Um, and, um, in the bayou-- Uh, sorry, in the, um, uh...
AndyHOST
At the, um, at the location, what you found was a stone circle.
AndyHOST
I shall just share the picture again Of a whole load of standing stones in a circle around, um, one stone that's made of a different, uh, uh, different type of stone that seems to be inlaid into the ground, and that has a spiral carved or scraped or gouged in it.
AndyHOST
Um, and, um, the thing that, th-there were, there were various signs that this place, this site is, is being used, most importantly camouflage netting.
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MillieGUEST
Yeah, I think so
AndyHOST
... to the spiral? Okay.
AndyHOST
Um, so you take him off to the m- to the middle of the s- of the stone circle.
AndyHOST
Um, and, um, he keeps sort of stop-- I'm assuming he's in the lead.
Sam FryerGUEST
His album Peggy Suicide is unbelievable.
Sam FryerGUEST
He's got a fantastic knowledge of history and he does Stone Circle.
Sam FryerGUEST
He goes out to Stone Circles and tries to understand the ritual history of these places.
Sam FryerGUEST
And that's something that I'm really, really interested in as well.
Sam FryerGUEST
It's also... quite unusual because in the palmer violence days i remember we played a gig in liverpool for the psychedelic festival they had there and people used to shout at the stage at that goodbye i remember them shouting at the stage they would shout teardrop explodes at us and we didn't know what they were talking about we didn't know what a teardrop explode was and then eventually I heard on a compilation a Julian Cope song.
Peter DawkinsGUEST
And Europa is personified by the British Isles which always used to be the land of the goddesses you know the triple goddess that's Europa and she sits on the neck of the bull and that and in the sky you got the constellation of Taurus and the Pleiades sit on the neck of of the bull and the Pleiades are The secret, they're ones who inspire others.
YodetHOST
Officially, no one seems to know the purpose of stone circles, also known as standing stones, even though these structures can be found across the world.
YodetHOST
Large vertical rocks set into the ground by ancient peoples.
YodetHOST
What's your theory as to what their purpose is?
Peter LinebaughSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
way.
Peter DawkinsGUEST
And so they would find the key locations on Earth.
Peter DawkinsGUEST
Using geometry, they would lay out their stone circles or ellipses, whatever they're doing, called to do, in such a way that it reflected the landscape around, but it was on a key energy point.
Peter DawkinsGUEST
you know, so it was charged up.
Lupi MollGUEST
it's lucky and it's a beautiful part of the world.
Lupi MollGUEST
You know, Stone Circle, Stanley Stones, massive history, stunning landscape.
Nicky MurphyHOST
What do you hope people feel or think or experience first when they arrive?
Lupi MollGUEST
I want them to be, first of all, just blown away by the beauty of getting here.
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Lupi MollGUEST
It's not going to look that different.
Lupi MollGUEST
And so we just want it to be, you know, again, that whole sort of landscape hotel that is of the hill.
Lupi MollGUEST
The stone circles, the standing stones, I'm sure some of these same stones were used to be making the body that's there, to be building some of the walls that we've had to rebuild.
TimGUEST
So yeah, and then we've got serious craftsmen in there.