Menhirs of Totronald

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The menhirs of Totronald (also called Na Sgialaichean - English standing stones ) stand on the crest of a ridge near the airfield on the Hebridean island of Coll in Argyll and Bute in Scotland .

They are 14 m apart. From their relative positions, it can be seen that the two menhirs were never part of a circle (which is what they were initially considered to be). Local lore has it that they are ancient burial markings. The north-south oriented stones, each with a stone pack at the base, are about 40.0 meters apart.

The stone in the north is 1.4 m high, 1.2 m wide and 0.3 m thick. It is pentagonal with a roof-shaped tip. A low, about 2.0 m wide and 0.2 m high, partially covered with lawn accumulation of stones and earth lies on the south side. The south stone is irregularly shaped, 1.5 m high, 1.3 m wide at the base and 0.4 m thick.

On the top of the south stone, which is flatter above, there is an artificial hole 4.0 cm in diameter and 5.0 cm deep, which is probably more recent.

Alignment

G. Higginbottom et al. assume that the stone setting indicates the southernmost position of the moonset and that similar stone settings exist on Coll and Tiree .

literature

  • Erskine Beveridge: Coll and Tiree: their prehistoric forts and ecclesiastical antiquities with notices of ancient remains in the Treshnish Isles. Edinburgh, T & A Constable 1903, pp. 46-7.
  • H. MacDougal, H. Cameron: Handbook to the Islands of Coll and Tiree . Glasgow 1937 p. 41

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ G. Higginbottom, Andrew GK Smith, P. Tonner, A Recreation of Visual Engagement and the Revelation of World Views in Bronze Age Scotland. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 22/2, 2015, 625
  2. ↑ a b Entry on Menhirs of Totronald  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  3. ^ G. Higginbottom, Andrew GK Smith, P. Tonner, A Recreation of Visual Engagement and the Revelation of World Views in Bronze Age Scotland. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 22/2, 2015, 625
  4. ^ G. Higginbottom, Andrew GK Smith, P. Tonner, A Recreation of Visual Engagement and the Revelation of World Views in Bronze Age Scotland. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 22/2, 2015, fig. 27
  5. ^ G. Higginbottom, Andrew GK Smith, P. Tonner, A Recreation of Visual Engagement and the Revelation of World Views in Bronze Age Scotland. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 22/2, 2015, 625
  6. ^ G. Higginbottom, Andrew GK Smith, P. Tonner, A Recreation of Visual Engagement and the Revelation of World Views in Bronze Age Scotland. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 22/2, 2015, 632

Coordinates: 56 ° 36 '34.9 "  N , 6 ° 37' 9.8"  W.