Kerbatch Stone Circles

The field at Kerbatch is so quiet you hear the grass tick in the heat. Nine rings of laterite break the scrub, and among them one pillar splits at the crown into two arms, a forked silhouette repeated nowhere else in the inscribed landscape.

Kerbatch is one of the four inscribed Senegambian stone circle groups: nine circles including a rare double ring, raised over graves in the same long tradition as Wassu, laterite cut with iron tools by builders nobody can name. Its signature is the lyre stone, a pillar forked into a V, recorded as the only bifid stone among the property's megaliths. A one-room museum beside the field gives as much space to the living traditions of the surrounding countryside as to the archaeology. This is the remote sibling: it sits off the north-bank road beyond public transport, so visitors arrange a vehicle from Janjanbureh or fold it into a planned day with Wassu. The reward is a well-preserved group of circles met in near silence.