Circlestone are stone ruins in
Arizona
Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...
's
Superstition Wilderness
A superstition is any belief or practice considered by non-practitioners to be irrational or supernatural, attributed to fate or magic, perceived supernatural influence, or fear of that which is unknown. It is commonly applied to beliefs and ...
about 45 miles from
Phoenix. The ruins are not a circular space of
standing stones
A menhir (from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large human-made upright stone, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age. They can be foun ...
; however, like many standing stone monuments found elsewhere in the world it does have elements of construction that to some suggest it was built to track celestial events. The Circlestone structure is one of similar, roughly circular stonewall sites that survive in the region.
References
External links
* http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~vocewld/circlestone/index.htm
* http://hikearizona.com/decoder.php?ZTN=31
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Superstition Mountains
Geography of Arizona