Bullstones

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The Bullstones or Bullstone Barrow (also called Bullstrang) are the remains of a bowl barrow type burial mound , which dates to the end of the Neolithic or the early Bronze Age. It is located on the "Cessbank Common Moor" on the east flank of Brown Hill in Wincle near Macclesfield in the Peak District in Cheshire in England . The facility has been under protection since 1993.

The Bullstones are approximately 4.5 miles from the Bridestones . The preserved stone enclosure is smaller than the stone circle at Glenquicken in Scotland , but has a similar structure.

Excavations

The facility was excavated by John Dow Sainter in the 1870s. He found the cremation of a child or adolescent who was about 0.9 m below the surface and was surrounded by an oval of small stones about 2.8 by 2.5 cm in diameter. The cinerary urn , a Bronze Age vessel form, contained a calcined knife next to the cremated remains and a arrowhead from flint . An account of the excavations can be found in a book by JD Sainter.

shape

Today the remains of the burial mound are up to 25 cm high. The hill measures approximately 11.5 × 10 m.

A 1.1 m high, 1.4 m wide and 0.7 m thick monolith stands off-center in the circle . On the broad side of the central stone, the circle is interrupted in the north by a short stone avenue. A curved line of stones runs from the entrance of this avenue back to the circle, so that a small, roughly triangular area formed by stones was created on both sides, which was examined and was empty. Around the central stone lies an incomplete elliptical area made up of rounded, head-sized boulders with a diameter of 7.9 × 8.5 m, which form a small platform.

In 2000, Burl gives a description of the Mittenstein circles , which can also be found in Cornwall , Shropshire , Wiltshire and south-west Ireland . He states, "Circles with central stones seem to have arisen late and often have a cremation at the foot of the central stone. The circles consist of small rounded stones, while the central stone is significantly larger".

literature

  • Aubrey Burl: A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2005 (2nd, revised edition). ISBN 9780300114065 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1007385
  2. ↑ OS Grid ref: - SJ956956
  3. ↑ https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1007385 Historic England
  4. ↑ JD Sainter, The Jottings of some Geological, Archæological, Botanical, Ornithological and Zoological Rambles round Macclesfield , Macclesfield, Swinnerton & Brown 1878, 35-36
  5. ↑ https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1007385 Historic England

Coordinates: 53 ° 12 ′ 19.9 "  N , 2 ° 4 ′ 4"  W.