Kirkton of Bourtie stone circle
The Kirkton of Bourtie is a stone circle type Recumbent Stone Circle (RSC) in a field near Oldmeldrum , about 4.4 km northeast of Inverurie in Aberdeenshire in Scotland .
Feature of the RSCs is a "lying stone" accompanied by two standing, high, often pointed "edge stones" ( English flankers ) which is part of the circle or are located near the circle. The circles common on the River Dee were made between 2300 and 1800 BC. Built in BC.
The heavily damaged circle consists of the approximately 3.0 m high eastern flank stone, the lying stone and two of the western stones of the circle. Originally it had ten or eleven stones and about 22.0 m in diameter. The lying stone is broken, but is known to be the longest of all lying stones at about 4.9 m next to Old Keig's ; ( Cothiemuir Wood is the next longest to measure 4.2 m). It is four feet wide and probably weighs more than 30 tons. The stone is on a slightly elevated hill. The western stones are also very high at 1.8 m and 2.36 m.
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
- Aubrey Burl: A guide to the stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany. Yale University Press, London 1995, ISBN 0-300-06331-8 .
- 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 ° 18 ′ 50.4 " N , 2 ° 19 ′ 56.2" W.