Loanhead of Daviot
The Loanhead of Daviot is a stone circle type Recumbent Stone Circle (RSC), which in the region Grampian , especially at the River Dee is very common. A characteristic of the RSC is a "lying stone" accompanied by two standing, high, often tapering "flank stones" that are located within the circle or near the circle. It is located northwest of Oldmeldrum in Aberdeenshire in Scotland near the village of Daviot .
The circle consists of eight stones plus the accompanying stones on both sides of the 12-ton "resting stone". The stones of the circle increase in height in the direction of the resting stone. There are bowls on a stone east of the resting one . Since the end of the 3rd millennium, the circle has had a separate interior, which is laid out with stones. It contained shattered pottery and crustaceans . The cairn has a curb segment behind the resting stone. Small cairns have been added around the bases of six of the circle's stones .
The information obtained during the excavation has made this stone circle the best understood of the prehistoric circles in Scotland. There were here for about 15 centuries, from about 3000 BC. When the stone circle was erected until around 1500 BC. When the subsequent cremation cemetery went out of use, solemn activities.
Next to the circle, within a low stone border with two opposite entrances, is a later cremation cemetery. Its central pit held the partially burned bones of a man who appeared to be wearing a stone pendant. 20 pits with corpse burns, some in urns , the rest in small pits, were found around him. They come from 31 people, including children.
- Loanhead of Daviot
Side view
In the middle of the person lying down
The cremation grave area in the back of the stone circle
The middle
The stone circles on the River Dee
The Deeside Stone Circles form a group of Recumbent Stone Circle (RSC). About 100 of them were born between 2500 and 1500 BC. In Aberdeenshire. The ensembles of the "resting stones" are usually in the southeast and (usually) on the course of the ring.
literature
- Anna Ritchie, Graham Ritchie: Scotland. To Oxford Archaeological Guide . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-19-288002-0 , ( Oxford archaeological guides ), pp. 142-143.
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Coordinates: 57 ° 20 ′ 58.3 " N , 2 ° 25 ′ 15.4" W.