descriptions and vague positions". Most of the known Wiltshire examples were erected on low-lying positions in the landscape. Later history The antiquarian John Aubrey visited the site and described "a great stone 10 foot high (or better) standing upright, which I take to be the Remainder of these kind of Temples… in the ground below are many thus o o o o o in a right line". The stone circle was destroyed in the mid-nineteenth century. At this point, somebody purchased the Longstone, had it broken up, and used the rubble for street metalling in Cricklade, 8 miles to the north-west. References Footnotes Bibliography } Further reading Aubrey I, 107 VCH Wiltshire I(1), 1957, 111-12 Burl, Prehistoric Avebury 1979, p. 237 WAM 23 (1887), 115-16 External links Broome Circle Stone Circle at The Megalithic Portal History of Wiltshire Stone Age sites in England Archaeological sites in Wiltshire