Menhirs of Mill of Noth
The east-west oriented menhirs of Mill of Noth (also called Burn of Easaiche, Milltown Of Noth or Mill O 'Noth) are north-northeast of Rhynie in Aberdeenshire in Scotland . The stone pair stands on a gravel terrace south of Burn of Easaiche, east of Main Street ( A97 ) at the Farm Mill of Noth on Ord Hill .
The menhirs ( English standing stones ) are according to Frederick Rhenius Coles (1854-1929) the remainder of a Recumbent Stone Circle (RSC) in which they held the position of the two standing stones to the side of the approximately 2.7 m measuring, disappeared lying stone should have. However, the orientation of the stones makes it impossible for them to stand on the south-west arch of the circle (the usual position of such an arrangement). It is therefore unlikely that they were "flankers" of a lying stone. The stones are 1.95 m high. The eastern stone measures 0.7 × 0.5 m near the ground. The western one measures 0.67 × 0.34 m.
Nearby are the Craw Stane , a class 1 Pictish symbol stone and the Hillfort Tap o 'Noth .
literature
- John Barnatt: Stone circles of Britain. Taxonomic and distributional analyzes and a catalog of sites in England, Scotland and Wales (= BAR. British Series. 215). 2 volumes. BAR, Oxford 1989, ISBN 0-86054-701-9 .
- Fred R. Coles: Report on stone circles surveyed in Perthshire (Aberfeldy District). In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Vol. 44, 1909/1910, pp. 117–168, here p. 165, ( digital version (PDF; 1.91 MB) ).
- Adam Welfare: Great Crowns of Stone. The Recumbent Stone Circles of Scotland. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Edinburgh 2011, ISBN 978-1-902419-55-8 .
Web links
- Description and pictures
- Entry on Mill of Noth standing stones in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 57 ° 20 '16.6 " N , 2 ° 49' 35.6" W