Editing Stone circle (section)

===Continental Europe===
Examples can be found throughout Continental Europe, from the [[Black Sea]] to [[Brittany]]. Locations in France include several in Brittany (two on the island of [[Er Lannic]] and two more suggested at [[Carnac]]), several in the south of France on the [[Causse de Blandas]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alzon.fr/le-circuit-des-megalithes/|title=Le circuit des Mégalithes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6334839|title=Lacam de Peyrarines|website=The Megalithic Portal}}</ref> in the [[Cevennes]], in the [[Pyrenees]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=20022|title=Senescau Cromlech|website=The Megalithic Portal}}</ref> and in the Alps (e.g. the [[Petit Saint Bernard]]). One notable stone circle is in the Italian Alps.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.regione.vda.it/cultura/patrimonio/siti_archeologici/col_psb/cromlech_i.aspx|title=Cromlech - Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta|website=www.regione.vda.it}}</ref> As early as 1579, scholars in Germany described large erect stone circles near [[Ballenstedt]].<ref name="Bakker2010">{{cite book|author=Jan Albert Bakker|title=Megalithic Research in the Netherlands, 1547-1911: From "giant's Beds" and "pillars of Hercules" to Accurate Investigations|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_MQiK5ATCL1wC|year=2010|publisher=Sidestone Press|isbn=978-90-8890-034-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_MQiK5ATCL1wC/page/n56 47]}}</ref> In 2001, a stone circle ([[Beglik Tash]]) was discovered in Bulgaria near the Black Sea.

There are several examples in the [[Alentejo]] region of Portugal, the oldest and most complete being the [[Almendres Cromlech]] near the regional capital of [[Évora]] and within its municipality. Remains of many others consist only of the central [[Dolmen|anta]] (as they are known in Portugal). This sometimes appears to have been used as an altar but more often as a central burial structure, originally surrounded by megaliths that show only sparsely survived erosion and human activities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/background-infonotes/shrines/thracian-cromlech-stone-circle-staro-zhelezare-bulgaria/|title=Thracian Cromlech (Stone Circle) - Staro Zhelezare, Bulgaria|work=Archaeology in Bulgaria. and Beyond - Archaeology, History & Nature: the Human - Earth Connection |date=30 June 2015 }}</ref>

These circles are also known as ''[[harrespil]]'' in the [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque country]], where villagers call them ''[[mairu]]-baratz'' or ''[[jentil]]-baratz,'' meaning "pagan garden (cemetery)". They refer to [[Giant (mythology)|mythological giants]] of the pre-Christian era. No example has survived in a good state of preservation, but, like the Alentejo, the Basque Country is dotted with eroded and vandalized examples of many such structures.