Loupin Stanes
The Loupin Stanes (also called "Loupin Stanes NW") are a stone circle about 250 m from the Hartmanor Hotel in Eskdalemuir near Lockerbie , near the River White Esk in the east of Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland ( location ). A row of stones preserved in remains leads from the Loupin Stanes to the Girdle Stanes about 450 m away.
The slightly oval circle, measuring around 11.0 by 12.0 m, consists of twelve stones (six of them in situ ) on an artificial platform. Ten of them are small. On the southwest side are two 1.6 m high stones, which are typical of circles in the south-west of Scotland.
The circle gets its name (from the Scots language , English leaping stones ) from the tradition of jumping between the two tall stones.
Girdle Stanes
The western part of the circle of Girdle Stanes was washed away by the River White Esk , so that only 25 of the original 40 to 45 stones in the shape of a crescent moon have been preserved ( position ). Unlike the majority of the stone circles in Dumfriesshire, this circle was not oval but round and had a total diameter of about 39.0 m.
Its shape connects it with the Cumbrian circles in the south, in particular with the Swinside circle in the southwest of the Lake District. As with Swinside, the tallest stone is positioned in the north of the circle, and there is an access to the southeast.
literature
- A. Burl: A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany . London 2005.
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