Glenquicken
Glenquicken (also called Cambret Moor or Billy Diamond's Bridge ) is an oval stone circle south of an old military road and 50 m north of the Englishman's Burl, about 3.3 km east of Creetown in Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland . He stands in a pasture on Cambret Moor.
The circle has a diameter of 15.5 m and consists of 29 low stone blocks. There is a gap in the southwest where a stone could be missing. The highest point of the stone circle is in the southeast. In the middle there is a 1.6 m high monolith made of granite . Around it is a heap of field stones, which were probably created in the course of renovation work.
Aubrey Burl called it the finest of all Mittenstein circles. In 2000, Burl gives a description of the Mittenstein circles, which can also be found in Cornwall , Shropshire , Wiltshire and south-west Ireland . He notes that circles with center stones were created late and often have a cremation at the foot of the center stone. The circles consist of small rounded stones, while the central stone is significantly larger. A smaller, almost exact copy of Glenquickan are the Bullstones in Cheshire .
Two more circles in the northwest are marked on the Ordnance Survey map, but Alexander Thom no longer found it in 1939.
literature
- Aubrey Burl: A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany . New Haven; London: Yale University Press. 2005 p. 142.
- Aubrey Burl: The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-300-08347-7 .
- Fred. R. Coles: The Stone Circles of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright . Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland : 90 - 1895.
Web links
- Entry on Glenquicken in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland's database
- Description and picture
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Individual evidence
- ↑ NGR NX 5096 5821
Coordinates: 54 ° 53 ′ 46.7 " N , 4 ° 19 ′ 31.6" W.