Forvie stone circle
The Forvie stone circle was discovered in 2011 in the Sands of Forvie (in the Forvie National Nature Reserves) by John Hughes after a storm that moved mountains of sand in the sea northeast of the mouth of the Ythan Estuary near Newburgh north of Aberdeen in Scotland . He recognized the arrangement of stones in an area that otherwise has no rock formations, the shape of a stone circle of the Recumbent Stone Circle (RSC) type and described it.
An important feature was missing, the "lying stone". However, about one kilometer northeast of this point is a stone about three meters long and two meters wide, which could be the missing lying in the northeast of the stone circle. The gap between the alleged flank stones of the stone circle was measured and it was determined that it was the appropriate distance (accurate to 10 centimeters). This is considered evidence that this may have been the stone of the circle before it was removed from its position.
The stones are buried deep in the sand. But probing the smallest of them has shown that they are very formidable. As the sands move with the tides, stones can appear or disappear. Not all stones are necessarily visible at the same time.
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
- Anna Ritchie, Graham Ritchie: Scotland. To Oxford Archaeological Guide . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-19-288002-0 , ( Oxford archaeological guides ).
- 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 ′ 33.1 ″ N , 1 ° 59 ′ 9.2 ″ W.