Broomend by Crichie

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Broomend of Crichie Stones

The Broomend of Crichie , in Port Elphinstone, the southern suburb of Inverurie in Aberdeenshire in Scotland on Mill Road, is a henge monument in which the remains of a stone circle and a Pictish symbol stone are located. In old records will be appreciated that the Broomend earlier by means of a stone Allee was connected to a second, but outgoing stone circle.

Henge of Crichie

Crichie's Broomend is level with Kinkell Church on a gravel terrace overlooking the Don River . It depicts the remains of a ceremonial center dating from the late 3rd millennium BC. Was used until the Iron Age . The oldest part is still recognizable, the henge with a diameter of about 35 m with two opposite openings in the wall and several interruptions in the ditch. Today there are three menhirs within the henge . Two of the stones belong to a disturbed stone circle, which formerly consisted of six stones and was part of the henge.

Symbol stone

The central Pictish symbol stone was plowed in the 19th century and placed here. A crescent moon and a hybrid being are engraved on it. The reddish symbol stone could have been part of a double row of stones that led through the henge. A stone from the former row is in the south. Old records indicate that it consisted of 36 stones each. To the south it led to the course of the river, which was only recognizable by its oxbow lakes, and to the north to a stone circle almost 50 m in diameter, consisting of three concentric circles.

In 1866, excavations made in the henge revealed a corpse burn at the base of the two original menhirs of the stone circle, a decorated stone ax at the base of a stone and in the center of the henge, a recessed west-east facing short stone box containing burials and urns , as well as special Contained shaped, presumably bone oil lamps.

literature

  • Anna Ritchie, Graham Ritchie: Scotland. To Oxford Archaeological Guide . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-19-288002-0 , ( Oxford archaeological guides ), pp. 152-153.
  • R. Bradley, J, Creighton, T. Philips: Broomend of Crichie, Aberdeenshire (Kintore parish), henge and stone circle, Discovery Excav Scot, Vol. 2, 2001. p. 11

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Coordinates: 57 ° 16 ′ 1.9 ″  N , 2 ° 22 ′ 4.3 ″  W.