Rothiemay stone circle
The Rothiemay Stone Circle (also called Milltown of Rothiemay or Rothiemay Castle) is a stone circle (RSC - Circle with a Reclining Stone), which is located in a gently sloping field on Mannoch Hill, near the B9117 road northeast of Milltown of Rothiemay, east of Keith located to the east of Moray in Scotland .
The circle, about 28.0 m in diameter, may have consisted of 12-14 stones, but it has been reduced to five. One is the “lying woman” in the south-west, arranged at a slight angle on the circumference (probably offset). It is about 4.3 m long and up to 1.8 m high, with an uneven top. The lying above about 19 carries bowl ( English cups ); another 72 were discovered on the west side, including at least eight surrounded by simple rings. Due to the many missing orthostats , it is impossible to tell whether the circle was graduated in height. The tallest of the four preserved orthostats, which has four bowls on its outside, is in the southeast and the shortest in the northwest.
Nearby is the stone circle of Thorax .
literature
- A. Aspinall: Rothiemay stone circle (Rothiemay parish), geophysical survey , Discovery Excav Scot, 1998. pp. 66-67
- A. Aspinall: Magnetic stones - an investigation of the recumbent stone circle of Rothiemay, Banffshire , In RE Jones and L. Sharpe: Going Over Old Ground: Perspectives on Archaeological Geophysical and Geochemical Survey in Scotland , BAR British Series, vol. 416. 2006 Oxford. Pp. 29-37
- A. Welfare: Great Crowns of Stone: The Recumbent Stone Circles of Scotland . Edinburgh 2011. pp. 443-446
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Coordinates: 57 ° 31 '35.36 " N , 2 ° 45' 6.88" W.