Rudston
Coordinates: 54 ° 6 ′ N , 0 ° 19 ′ W
Rudston is a village in the Yorkshire Wolds , in Yorkshire in the United Kingdom . The name Rudston is made up of the Old English words "rood" for cross and "stan" for stone.
Prehistoric monuments
The menhir of Rudston is the largest in the UK . It stands 10 km west of Bridlington in the middle of the village of the same name, by the church. The menhir ( English standing stone ) is 7.7 m high, 1.8 m wide and 76 cm thick. The monolith is made of a material the nearest occurrence is about 10 miles away. Its tip is missing, if you lengthen the contour, almost 70 cm are missing. Recently, a cap was placed on the broken tip to protect the porous material from the weather. The weight of the stone is around 40 tons.
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An old East English coastal path runs through the hamlet of Rudston, which is dated to prehistoric times, similar to the ox or army path on the Cimbrian Peninsula .
The Rudston area must have been a religious center in prehistoric times and is compared in importance to Kilmartin or Avebury . Around the village there are prehistoric moat wall systems, the Cursus monuments , narrow, extremely long rectangular Neolithic earthworks that are dated to the Middle Neolithic . There are several long and round burial mounds southwest of the village .
literature
- Rodney Castleden: The Stonehenge People: An Exploration of Life in Neolithic Britain 4700-2000 BC 1992
- Henry P. Chapman: Rudston 'Cursus A' - Engaging with a Neolithic monument in its landscape setting using GIS In: Oxford Journal of Archeology 22, 2003 (4), 345-356.
- Homer Sykes: Mysterious Britain - Fact and Folklore George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. 1993 ISBN 0-297-83196-8 p. 78
Web links
- Description Engl. + Picture ( Memento from August 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )