Nine Stones (Belstone)
Nine Stones (also called Seventeen Brothers) is a ring cairn (sometimes more correctly called "Ring Bank Enclosure", incorrectly also called Ring Barrow) at Belstone Tor , about 1.0 km southwest of Belstone, near Okehampton in Devon , England .
Not to be confused with Nine Stanes (also called "Garrol wood" or "Mulloch wood") in Kincardineshire , Ninestane Rig in Scotland, Nine Stones (Winterbourne Abbas) or Nine Stones (Altarnun) in Cornwall .
The Ring Cairn by Nine Stones is not a stone circle . It is the remains of a round burial mound. There are gaps in the circle, suggesting that there were originally around 40 curbs. None of the stones is larger than 0.9 m. There are traces of a chamber are inside the circle. This is evidence of a destroyed cairn and a destroyed stone box .
- Nine Stones ring cairn
See also
literature
- Frances Lynch: Ring cairns in Britain and Ireland: their design and purpose. In: Ulster Journal of Archeology. 42, 1979, pp. 1-19
- Homer Sykes: Mysterious Britain - Fact and Folklore George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. 1993 p. 40
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Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 7 ″ N , 3 ° 58 ′ 1.7 ″ W.