Midmar
The stone circle of Midmar (also called Christ Church) is located in Grampian six kilometers west of Real, a village in Aberdeenshire in Scotland . Midmar is a Recumbent Stone Circle (RSC). 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. In stone circles of this type, the smallest stone is opposite the 4.5 m long, resting stone, which was apparently an altar . The height of the stones decreases in both directions from the two pointed, here 2.5 m high companions of the resting stone. In Midmar this rule is broken. Apparently some of the original eight stones were moved randomly.
Behind the simple Christ Church, built in 1787, lies an almost complete Recumbent Stone Circle from the Bronze Age, 17 m in diameter, on a lawn in the churchyard . The central cairn was removed when the lawn was designed. The circle made of local rock from the "Hill of Farr" is popularly known as "The Druids". Along with Cullerlie and Sunhoney, it is one of three similar stone circles in the immediate vicinity. One of the stones in the circle is missing. It was apparently built into the foundation of the church's predecessor, St. Nidan's Chapel.
The Balblair Stone
The menhir by Midmar Kirk Nord (also "The Balblair Stone") is a large and slim standing stone. It is slightly inclined about 100 meters north of Midmar Kirk in a small forest and has a clearly phallic shape. Nearby is the medieval Midmar Castle. The plate appears to have originally been a prehistoric menhir in which a number of bowls were engraved. In the time of the Picts , an "impressive man" was incised, who was shown in profile walking to the right with a protruding nose and chin. He wears a short tunic with a ribbon at the hem. a belt around the waist and a club in the right hand.
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
- Aubrey Burl: A guide to the stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany . Yale University Press, London 1995, ISBN 0-300-06331-8 .
- David Corio, Lai Ngan Corio: Megaliths. The ancient Stone Monuments of England and Wales . Jonathan Cape, London 2003, ISBN 0-224-06464-9 .
- Homer Sykes: Mysterious Britain - Fact and Folklore George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. 1993 ISBN 0-297-83196-8 p. 146
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Coordinates: 57 ° 8 ′ 51 ″ N , 2 ° 29 ′ 56.7 ″ W.