Candle stone

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Candle stone

The Candle Stone is an in situ befindlicher menhir ( English Standing Stone ), which from the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age comes and not to be confused with the Candle Hill Stane in Insch . The upright monolith is in a pasture 115 m west of Drumwhindle House, northwest of Ellon in Aberdeenshire , Scotland .

The dark basalt stone is about 2.5 meters high and about one square meter at the square base. At the top it widens to about 1.5 m², before it tapers to about 0.6 m² at its tip.

The menhir is one of around 50 in Strathdon , where menhirs, stone circles and burial mounds were built. The distribution of the stones largely corresponds to the distribution of the burial mounds, which indicates a connection between the two.

literature

  • Frederick R. Coles: Report on the stone circles of North-Eastern Scotland, chiefly in Auchterless and Forgue, with measured plans and drawings, obtained under the Gunning Fellowship. In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Vol. 37, 1902/1903, pp. 82–142, here pp. 92–93, ( digital version (PDF; 2.39 MB) ).
  • James Ritchie: Folklore of the Aberdeenshire stone circles and Standing-Stones. In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Vol. 60, 1925/1926, pp. 304-313, here p. 313, ( digitized version (PDF; 639 KB) ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Candle Hill Stane  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  2. ↑ Strathdon is an area in Aberdeenshire. It is on the banks of the Don , 75 km north of Aberdeen . The main town of Strathdon was originally called Invernochty because it is located at the confluence of the Don and Nochty rivers.

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Coordinates: 57 ° 24 '14.6 "  N , 2 ° 7' 56.8"  W.