Devil's Ring and Finger
As Devil's Ring and finger ( German "devil's ring and finger" ) are two menhirs in Staffordshire in the region West Midlands in England called. It is a wide, ring-shaped perforated stone and a menhir.
In the middle of the perforated stone is a round hole about 50 cm in diameter that was carved in by human hands in the Neolithic period. The menhir, rising more than 1.8 m above the ground, is characterized by deep grooved carts .
The stones are located near the village of Mucklestone a few miles northeast of the town of Market Drayton in Shropshire . The monument is not signposted and can only be reached via dirt roads. There are numerous other fallen menhirs in the fields in the area. Megalithic sites are rare in the Midlands and hardly studied archaeologically.
The two stones are probably the remains of a chamber tomb or a megalithic formation such as Mên-an-Tol in Cornwall . The stones are no longer in their original position, but have been moved to the western boundary of Oakley Hall Park , an English landscaped garden from 1710.
literature
- Jonathan Mullard: The Devil's Ring and Finger. In: Earthlines 1, 1983, pp. 5-7.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Nikolaus Pevsner: Staffordshire . ( Buildings of England ). Yale University Press / Penguin Books, 1974, ISBN 0140710469 , p. 214.
Coordinates: 52 ° 56 ′ 11 " N , 2 ° 26 ′ 10" W.