Old Keig
In a narrow green strip ( kink ) west of Keig wherein Old Keig farm in Aberdeenshire in Scotland preferred Steinkreis Old Keig is a recumbent Stone Circle (RSC), the "lying stone", from sillimanite gneiss , together with that of the stone circle Kirkton of Bourtie is the largest of the approximately 100 known "lying stones".
It is about 4.9 m long, two meters wide and thick and weighs 53 tons. The two flanking stones (about 2.7 and 2.9 m high) survived in situ , but only one of the other stones in the stone circle is preserved in place. The circle was originally about 20 m in diameter and inside a cairn about 4.3 m in diameter.
The excavation of Vere Gordon Childe (1892–1957) revealed that a large fire had burned in the center of the circle. A pit was filled with charcoal, pottery shards, and corpse burn and covered with a stone mound. Such evidence, also found at other locations, suggests that the Cairns contain human remains, but these cannot be called graves.
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
- VG Childe: Trial excavations at the Old Keig Stone Circle, Aberdeenshire. In: Proc Soc Antiq Scot, Vol. 67, 1933, pp. 37-53
- Anna Ritchie, Graham Ritchie: Scotland. To Oxford Archaeological Guide . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-19-288002-0 , ( Oxford archaeological guides )
- A. Welfare: Great Crowns of Stone (2011) RCAHMS
- C. Richards: Building the Great Stone Circles of the North (2013) Windgather Press
- R. Bradley: The Moon and the Bonfire: An Investigation of Three Stone Circles in NE Scotland (2005) Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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Coordinates: 57 ° 15 ′ 48.2 " N , 2 ° 40 ′ 13.7" W.