Huly Hill Cairn
The Huly Hill Cairn (also called Newbridge ) and its presumed stone circle are west of Edinburgh Airport in Midlothian , Scotland . The roundabout that connects the M9 motorway with the A8 and A89 expressways is immediately to the east. The highway separates most of the monument from a 320 meters standing outlier ( English outlier ), the east in an industrial area of the central stone hill is the largest and the associated stones.
The cairn
Huly Hill (or Heely Hill) is a barrow about 30 m in diameter and three meters high with a slightly arched top. Various objects have been found in the burial mound, which was excavated in 1830, including fragments of animal bones and a bronze spearhead . No traces of a body or urn burial were found. In the 18th or 19th century, the cairn was surrounded by a stone retaining wall.
The stone circle
At the same time, the three menhirs , which seem to lie on a circle with a diameter of 100 m, were connected with a path. If the three stones form the remainder of a circle, then that is around 2500 BC. Cairn erected from the center clearly offset to the northwest. A theory put forward in 1903 says that the three stones are the remainder of two concentric stone circles. But there is no evidence for this thesis, even if an author claimed in 1852 that the cairn was surrounded by twelve stones. The publication of the Ordnance Survey of the same year speaks only of those three stones that can still be viewed today.
The menhirs
The three menhirs are named A, B and C.
- "A", which seems broken, is about 1.3 m high and is 53 m east of the Cairns
- "B" is about 2.0 m high and 49 m southwest of the Cairns
- "C" is about 2.0 m high and 31 m northwest of the Cairns.
In the industrial area on the other side of the motorway and 320 m east of the Cairns is the approximately 3.0 m high Outlier, usually referred to as "Stone D". Whether this is really an outlier or a separate stone is unclear.
At the beginning of 2001, south of Huly Hill, around 450 BC. The chariot grave of Newbridge was discovered in BC . This suggests that the area around Huly Hill was used for burials for more than two millennia, or the placement of this burial almost within sight of the cairn and menhirs was simply a coincidence.
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Coordinates: 55 ° 56 ′ 18.6 " N , 3 ° 24 ′ 17.6" W.