Balgarthno stone circle
The fenced stone circle of Balgarthno (also called Farm of Corn, Liff Railway Station or Myrekirk) is located in a meadow south of the A90 motorway (Kinksway West) in the west of Dundee in Angus in Scotland .
The Balgarthno stone circle is approximately 6.1 m in diameter and is a protected monument. About 2300 BC Chr formed. Recumbent Stone Circle (RSC) is a circle with an underlying stone, and as such the southernmost example of a RSC in Tayside . The monument, which was damaged by weathering and vandalism, has been preserved without the lying stone with nine of the original, but today overturned or relocated circular stones. Fragments of jade and flint found here are in the National Museum of Scotland .
literature
- Richard Bradley : The Idea of Order. The Circular Archetype in Prehistoric Europe. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-960809-6 .
- Aubrey Burl: A guide to the stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 1995, ISBN 0-300-06331-8 .
- Anna Richtie, Graham Ritchie : Scotland. An Oxford archaeological guide. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 1998, ISBN 0-19-288002-0 .
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Coordinates: 56 ° 28 '19.8 " N , 3 ° 3' 4.8" W.