Nether Corskie stone circle
The stone circle of Nether Corskie is a stone circle of the Recumbent Stone Circle (RSC) type, which is particularly common on the River Dee . A characteristic of the RSC is a “lying stone”, accompanied by two standing, high, often tapering “flank stones”. It is located northwest of Dunecht in Aberdeenshire in Scotland .
Only the edge stones and something shifted "lying stone" are received from the stone circle that some bowls ( English cups has). The eastern flank stone is over 1.8 m high, the western about 2.7 m high.
Nearby are the Pictish symbol stone of Nether Corskie and the heavily disturbed stone circle of Wester Echt.
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 ), pp. 139-140.
- 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 ° 10 '35.4 " N , 2 ° 25' 4.6" W.