Bellman's Wood

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Bellman's Wood is a more damaged stone circle type Recumbent Stone Circle (RSC) at Marnoch, southwest of Aberchirder in Aberdeenshire in Scotland . The circles common on the River Dee were made between 2300 and 1800 BC. Built in BC.

The remains of the stone circle, which is a Scheduled Monument , consist of two large stones, which Coles called the East and West Pillar. The east pillar, which has now also fallen over, was about 1.6 m high, almost square and measures 0.8 × 0.7 m. The W-pillar, which was laid down around 1900, is 2.3 m long, 1.6 m wide and 0.8 m high. In between there is space for a rock with a length of almost 3.0 meters. There are five other stone blocks, but none are big enough to have been one of the circle stones. Since a dam runs around the circle within a radius of 6.0 m, most of the circle stones were probably used for its construction.

The "West Pillar" has undoubtedly been moved and there is no clear evidence that it and the "East Pillar" flanked a rock.

The hamlet's cemetery (Marnoch) was included in the Scottish monument lists in 1972 in the highest monument category A.

The stone circle of St Marnan's Chair is about 800 m away .

literature

  • Aubrey Burl: A guide to the stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany. Yale University Press, London 1995, ISBN 0-300-06331-8 .
  • A. Welfare: Great Crowns of Stone (2011) RCAHMS
  • C. Richards: Building the Great Stone Circles of the North (2013) Windgather Press
  • R. Bradley: The Moon and the Bonfire: An Investigation of Three Stone Circles in NE Scotland (2005) Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Characteristic of the RSC is a "lying stone" accompanied by two standing, high, often tapering "flank stones" ( English flankers ), which are located within the stone circle or near the circle.

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Coordinates: 57 ° 32 ′ 31.9 "  N , 2 ° 39 ′ 42.8"  W.