Berrybrae

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Berrybrae stone circle

Berrybrae is a block circuit of the type recumbent Stone Circle (RSC), which in the region Grampian , particularly at the River Dee is very common. Berrybrae is located in a grove in northeast Aberdeenshire , south of the A90 (road) between Lonmay and Crimond in Scotland .

Only five stones have survived from this stone circle. They lie in an oval stone wall. The excavation revealed two phases of this circle.

The first phase consisted of a low oval stone wall measuring 12.8 by 10.8 m in diameter and a circle made of the lying and nine standing stones. In the center (as with Nine Stanes ) there was a Ringcairn with three cremations. Quartz fragments were found near the lying stone.

In the second phase, around 1700 BC. BC, the menhirs of the circle were destroyed or chopped off except for the lying stone and its western flank stone. The Ringcairn was leveled and a stone wall was built on the former wall, which enclosed an urn burial ground . A comparable destruction can be found at the stone circle in "Loudon Wood", in the same region.

The stone circles on the River Dee

The Deeside Stone Circles form a group of Recumbent Stone Circle (RSC). About 100 of them were born between 2500 and 1500 BC. In Aberdeenshire. The ensembles of the "resting stones" are usually in the southeast and (usually) on the course of the ring.

literature

  • Anna Ritchie, Graham Ritchie: Scotland. To Oxford Archaeological Guide (= Oxford archaeological guides. ). Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 1998, ISBN 0-19-288002-0 .
  • 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 ° 36 ′ 16 "  N , 1 ° 57 ′ 19.7"  W.