Blue Cairn Circle
The Blue Cairn Circle (also called Balronald Wood) is a Recumbent Stone Circle (RSC) at Ballater in Aberdeenshire in Scotland . A characteristic of the RSCs is a "lying stone" accompanied by two standing, high, often tapering "flank stones" that are part of the circle or are located close to the circle. The circles common on the River Dee were made between 2300 and 1800 BC. Built in BC.
The circle, about 21 meters in diameter, is dominated by a massive cairn that is larger than any found at other RSCs. Whether this is due to the fact that the cairn , which is now hidden in the forest and overgrown by bracken, is largely intact, or the cairn here is unusually large and the others have been eroded, is unknown.
The cairn has several pit-like depressions, including one in the middle, which are not the result of robbery excavations. All stones in the circle, with one exception in the east, have fallen over, including the “lying stone”. Even erect they do not reach the height of the central cairn. The cairn material makes it difficult to cross the interior, as the boulders are about the size of a head.
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
- Richard Bradley: The Idea of Order: The Circular Archetype in Prehistoric Europe. Oxford University Press, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0199608096 .
- 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
- Richard Bradley: The Moon and the Bonfire: An Investigation of Three Stone Circles in NE Scotland (2005) Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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Coordinates: 57 ° 8 ′ 38.8 " N , 2 ° 58 ′ 27.4" W.