Swinside Stone Circle
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The Swinside stone circle (also called Sunkenkirk - ( German "sunken church" ) Circle) is located in the Lake District in Cumbria in England . The older name Swineshead is derived from Swynesheud , pig pasture . There are no dating finds.
location
The stone circle stands eight kilometers north of Millom Without 200 feet high on a swampy meadow surrounded by mountains including the Raven Crag and Dunnerdale Fells . Not far from the facility flows the Black Beck, which flows into the sea in the Duddon Sands .
Research history
The remote monument was unknown to early antiquaries such as Stukeley or Aubrey . Richard Gough (1735–1809) mentions the name "Sunken Church". The circle was not measured until 1872 by Charles William Dymond, who published the results in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association in the same year . In 1901 Dymond and Collingwood created two cuts. Under the grass and a flat layer of earth, they found a layer of marl that was between 15 and 75 cm thick. All captured stones were in shallow pits in this marl layer and were wedged with smaller rocks. There were charcoal, bone fragments and, in the grass, modern coins. It was placed under protection in 1933.
description
The stone circle has a diameter of 29 m and consists of 54 stones, 28 of which are upright. Burl assumes that it originally contained possibly 64 stones. The distance between the stones is on average 1.5 m. The largest stone measures 2.3 m and is in the north. In the southeast the entrance is between two portal stones. The stones were originally probably on the inside of a wall, they all fell inward.
The circle is on private land but can be viewed from a nearby public footpath. Its hybrid concept has its only counterpart in the stone circle at Ballynoe in Northern Ireland . Ballynoe and Swinside are at 54 ° 17 'North, on either side of the Irish Sea . A stone circle called "The Sunken Kirk" or Seggieden is in Aberdeenshire .
literature
- Aubrey Burl: Great Stone Circles, fables, fiction facts . New Haven, Yale University Press 1999. ISBN 0-300-07689-4 , pp. 173f
- AL Lewis: On three Stone Circles in Cumberland, with some further Observations on the Relation of Stone Circles to adjacent Hills and outlying Stones . In: Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 15, 1886, 471-481. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2841826 (Accessed: 10-10-2018).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b A. L. Lewis, On three Stone Circles in Cumberland, with some further Observations on the Relation of Stone Circles to adjacent Hills and outlying Stones. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 15, 1886, 475
- ↑ a b c Aubrey Burl: Great Stone Circles, fables, fiction facts . New Haven, Yale University Press 1999, p. 174. ISBN 0-300-07689-4
- ↑ Aubrey Burl, Great Stone Circles, fables, fiction facts . New Haven, Yale University Press 1999, p. 173. ISBN 0-300-07689-4
- ^ Aubrey Burl: Great Stone Circles, fables, fiction facts . New Haven, Yale University Press 1999, p. 173. ISBN 0-300-07689-4
- ↑ Britannia, or, A chorographical description of the flourishing kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the islands adjacent; from the earliest antiquity / by William Camden, translated from the edition published by the author in MDCVII, enlarged by the latest discoveries, by Richard Gough. London, Nichols & Son 1789, 432, quoted from AL Lewis, On three Stone Circles in Cumberland, with some further Observations on the Relation of Stone Circles to adjacent Hills and outlying Stones. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 15, 1886, 475
- ↑ a b c d e f g Aubrey Burl: Great Stone Circles, fables, fiction facts . New Haven, Yale University Press 1999, p. 175. ISBN 0-300-07689-4
- ↑ Historic England: Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, 230m south east of Swinside, Millom Without - 1007226 - Historic England .
Coordinates: 54 ° 16'57 " N , 3 ° 16'26" W.