Aucheleffan
Aucheleffan is a four-post stone circle ( English Four-poster stone circle ), also "Himmelsteinkreis". It is a square stone setting of four erected stones, which is understood as a stone circle in the British Isles . They usually come from the Bronze Age . Aucheleffan is located near the Allt nan Tighean, a tributary of Kilmory Water on the Isle of Arran in North Ayrshire in Scotland .
The stone circle is in a clearing on a terrace over the south coast. It is 6.1 m in diameter with stones in the north and south-east and in the south and north-west. The stones vary in height between 0.5 and 1.0 m and are between 0.5 m and 1.0 m wide.
In the northeast there is a set of stones that may be related to the stone circle. The stone circle was excavated in 1902 by Thomas Hastie Bryce (1862–1942), who made no finds.
literature
- Aubrey Burl: Four-posters: Bronze Age stone circles of Western Europe. BAR, Oxford 1988, pp. 66-67
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Coordinates: 55 ° 28 '38.7 " N , 5 ° 12' 1.3" W.