Glassel stone circle
The Glassel Stone Circle (also called Glassel House) is a four-post or "sky stone circle " southeast of Torphins and south of the A980, in the Kynoch Plantation in Kincardineshire , Scotland .
The Aberdeen Guide notes that the circle has been described as a transition shape between an RSC stone circle and a four-post stone circle (like Templestone in Moray ), but A. Burl classified it as a stone circle .
description
The oval stone circle measures around 5.5 m × 2.8 m and has five stones made of reddish granite at heights of 0.84 to 0.99 m, the highest is in the southwest. A boulder made of diorite stands about three feet south of these stones. Although four blocks form the corners of a rectangle and the fifth as outliers ( English outlier ) is described, this is not plausibeler Himmelstein circle. The "fifth" stone is exactly the same size as the others and is no further away from its neighbors than they are below each other. This stone is radial to the others and at least two "circular stones" show flat surfaces that are parallel to the "outlier".
Two small slabs lie in the north near the circle stones, one made of granite and the other made of sandstone , the origin of these two stones is unclear. The circle was excavated in 1902, and charcoal and a flint cut were found.
literature
- Richard Bradley: The Idea of Order: The Circular Archetype in Prehistoric Europe : Oxford University Press (New York) 2012 ISBN 978-0199608096
- Aubrey Burl: A guide to the stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany . Yale University Press, London 1995, ISBN 0-300-06331-8 .
- Aubrey Burl: Four-posters: Bronze Age stone circles of Western Europe. BAR, Oxford 1988, pp. 66-67.
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Coordinates: 57 ° 5 ′ 13 " N , 2 ° 34 ′ 50.8" W.