Castle Fraser stone circle
The Castle Fraser stone circle (also known as Balgorkar, Balgorar, or West Main) is in the grounds of Castle Fraser, southwest of Kemnay in Aberdeenshire , Scotland . He is the remainder of a Recumbent Stone Circle (RSC).
It was originally a circle about 18.5 m in diameter with ten stones offset in height, six of which were still on the leveled platform. In the meantime nine stones have been erected as part of a reconstruction (one is missing). The ensemble of the “lying stone” has been completely preserved and is 4.5 m long in total. The stones of the inner cairn have completely disappeared, only the elevation in the inner circle indicates their existence. Excavations revealed quartz pebbles, the paved interior of the Ringcairn contained burned bones. Shards of an urn were found in front of a fallen stone near the west flank.
The stone circles on the River Dee
The Deeside Stone Circles form a group of Recumbent Stone Circles. About 100 of them were born between 2500 and 1500 BC. In Aberdeenshire.
Nearby are the Castle Fraser stone line and the Tillyfourie stone circle .
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 .
- 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 ° 12 ′ 9.6 ″ N , 2 ° 28 ′ 24 ″ W.