High Bridestones
The High Bridestones are two Bronze Age stone circles east of Grosmont near Sleights in North Yorkshire in England . They are not to be confused with the Bridestones in Cheshire .
The High Bridestones lie below the ridge of Sleight's Moor on a rough limestone plateau . Some see them as remains of two stone circles, a form as a four-post stone circles ( English four-poster stone circles ) or "Celestial Spheres" is called. It is an arrangement of four stones that is common in Scotland . But there are also some examples in England (e.g. the Goatstones in Northumberland).
The eastern circuit of the high Bridestones consists of a 2.0 meter long, upright Menhir of sandstone that is smooth and broken, wherein three are close. They appear darker and are cracked. Their eroded surface suggests that they fell over a long time ago. The standing stone has suffered over the years from people sticking coins into the cracks in the rock that contributed to the stone's erosion. A smaller stone stands east of the group. In the northwest the stones of the second circle are in the heather. Here three stones form the remainder of the circle and there is an outlier in the northwest. The stones are smaller than those of the first circle, although the general condition of the circle is better.
Nearby lie stone row of low Bridestones , the petroglyphs of Allan Toft and the round hill Flat Howe .
literature
- Aubrey Burl : Four-posters. Bronze Age stone circles of Western Europe (= BAR British Series. 195). BAR, Oxford 1988, ISBN 0-86054-580-6 , pp. 66-67.
- Richard Cavendish: Prehistoric England. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1983, ISBN 0-297-78315-7 .
- Barry M. Marsden: Discovering regional archeology. North-Eastern England. Shire Publications, Tring 1971, ISBN 0-85263-115-4 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 25 ′ 48 ″ N , 0 ° 41 ′ 28.5 ″ W.