Duddo stone circle
The Duddo Stone Circle is located north of Duddo in Northumberland , England and is a falsely referred to as a "Five Stone Circle" from the Bronze Age . Duddo stands on a light saddle between the slopes of the Mattilees Hills to the east and a slight incline to the west, towards the border with Scotland, only six kilometers away .
Although also marked as "Duddo Four Stones" on old maps, there are five menhirs in this stone circle . The erection of a fallen stone at the beginning of the 20th century means that the circle is now commonly referred to as the "Duddo Five Stones". There were once seven stones, because there is a large gap in the west. The footprints of the other stones were discovered during excavations in the 1890s. The missing stones were removed at least 50 years earlier.
Due to the soft sandstone, the stones are badly eroded . Gutter carts that cut into the stone from above determine the appearance of the monoliths today. Despite the size of the stones, the tallest being 2.3 m high, the circle is very compact with a diameter of 10.0 m. Surprisingly, in view of the depth of the surface grooves, or perhaps therefore, a plurality of depressions on the stones were as bowls ( English cups ) is interpreted.
literature
- Richard Cavensdish: Prehistoric England . English Tourist Board, London 1983
- Aubrey Burl: Four-posters: Bronze Age stone circles of Western Europe. BAR, Oxford 1988, pp. 66-67
- Barry M. Marsden: Discovering regional archeology: North-Eastern England. 1971, p. 12
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Coordinates: 55 ° 41 ′ 12.5 " N , 2 ° 6 ′ 43.6" W.