Harestanes stone circle
The Harestanes stone circle at Kirkurd Court (also called Old Harestanes ) is located southwest of Blyth Bridge, in Peeblesshire ( Scottish Gaelic Siorrachd nam Pùballan ) in the far northwest of the Scottish Borders in Scotland .
The stone circle (one of 16 groups in the Borders) consists of four Menhiren of conglomerate that vary m in height from 0.6 to 1.2. They are arranged on the circumference of a circle about 3.0 m in diameter. A fifth stone lies broken on the ground. A sixth stone, 1.5 m east of it, has probably been broken off and relocated recently. There is no comparable circle in Peeblesshire, but near Penmaenmawr, in Caernarvonshire in Wales , there is a strikingly similar stone circle called "Circle 275", which is dated to the Middle Bronze Age . The somewhat dubious five- stone stone circle of Aboyne is in Aberdeenshire . Otherwise, five-stone circles occur as a genus in the south of Ireland .
There is another Harestanes Circle at Ancrum in the Borders that has been destroyed; and in Aberdeenshire there are remnants of another county of the same name.
literature
- Aubrey Burl: The stone circles of the British Isles. Yale University Press, London and New Haven 1976, ISBN 0-300-01972-6 .
- Aubrey Burl: A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany. Yale University Press, New Haven 1995, ISBN 0-300-06331-8 .
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Coordinates: 55 ° 41 ′ 3.9 " N , 3 ° 23 ′ 41.3" W.