Bordley Stone Circle
The Bordley Stone Circle (also known as Druid's Altar Yorkshire, Druids 'Altar or Druids' Temple Grass) is located on Malham Moor, about 3 miles northwest of Threshfield, near Skipton in the west in North Yorkshire in England and is, according to Aubrey Burl a four-post stone circle ( English Four-poster stone circle ), also called "Himmelsteinkreis", which is dated to the Bronze Age . It lies within a 0.9 m high round hill with a diameter of about 15.0 meters.
Druids' altar is also called a rock outcrop at Bingley , in West Yorkshire .
Although it was described by Aubrey Burl as a sky stone circle, older descriptions (Harry Speight (1892), Edmund Boggs 1904 and Lewis 1914) speak of a much more complete stone ring, of which only three stones stand upright. On one side, a large flat stone is said to have rested on two others, which led to the name Altar of the Druid.
The altar of the Druids appears to have been a prehistoric grave, maybe even a chamber grave ( English chambered tomb ). The location, almost in the middle of a circle of hills, was clearly significant.
- Bordley Stone Circle
literature
- Aubrey Burl: Four Posters: Bronze Age Stone Circles of Western Europe. BAR 195: Oxford 1988.
- Neil Wingate: Grassington and Wharfedale. Grassington 1977.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 4 ′ 59.3 " N , 2 ° 4 ′ 43.3" W.