Fir Clump Stone Circle was an ancient monument in Burderop

Wood near Wroughton, Wiltshire, in South West England. It was one of at least seven stone

circles known to have been built in northern Wiltshire south of Swindon, but none of them
remain. The ring was part of a tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout
much of Britain, Ireland and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, between
3300 and 900 BCE. The purpose of such monuments is unknown,
although archaeologists speculate that the stones represented supernatural entities. Around
the 1860s, the megaliths in Fir Clump Stone Circle were levelled, but some of them were
rediscovered in 1965 by the archaeologist Richard Reiss, who described and measured the
monument. In 1969, these stones were removed during construction of the M4 motorway.
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