Newton Cairn
The Newton Cairn (also called Standing Stones at Newton Farm) is a group of four slender menhirs , as the remainder of the facade or the gallery of a Clyde Tomb at Cardoness, not far from "Mossyard Bay" of the "Big water of Fleet" in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland .
The four stones standing close together are the remainder of the exedra of the megalithic complex near the sea .
Clyde Tombs dominate south west Scotland. In period I they are located in round stone mounds ( cairns ), in period II in mounds of rectangular or trapezoidal shape, some of which are unusually large in relation to the chamber ( Auchoish , Blasthill , Crarae Garden , Haylie ). On its access side there is a more or less deep, concave exedra .
literature
- Rodney Castleden: The Stonehenge People. An exploration of life in Neolithic Britain, 4700-2000 BC. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London et al. 1987, ISBN 0-7102-0968-1 , p. 186.
- Howard Williams (Ed.): Archaeologies of remembrance. Death and memory in past societies. Kluwer Academic et al., New York NY et al. 2003, ISBN 0-306-47451-4 , pp. 29-32.
- Audrey Shore Henshall: The chambered tombs of Scotland. Volume 2. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1972, ISBN 0-85224-190-9 , pp. 42 and 105.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 50 ′ 46.7 ″ N , 4 ° 15 ′ 24 ″ W.