Tillyfourie stone circle

The Tillyfourie Stone Circle (also called Tillyfourie Hill; Tillyfaune Hill; Whitehill; Bogmore Wood or Whitehill Wood) is a more heavily damaged stone circle of the Recumbent Stone Circle (RSC) type. It is in a wood in Aberdeenshire , Scotland . Characteristic of the RSCs is a "lying stone" accompanied by two standing, high, often tapering "flank stones" ( English flankers ), which are part of the circle or are located near the circle. The circles common on the River Dee were made between 2300 and 1800 BC. Built in BC.

The circle was about 18.0 m in diameter. Only the "lying stone", its western "flank stone" and two stones of the circle are in situ , although other stones of the circle have been preserved. According to J. Stuart (1855), this contained a round cairn made of small stones with a width of 4.5 m, and an outer ring made of large panels lined up in a row, which centrally encompassed a stone-free space with a diameter of 2.7 m. Stuart noticed the remains of a wall that extended north from a rock about 100 meters to the northwest. Then he turned west about 15 or 20 meters and came to a small, round pile of stones with flat stones all around. From here the wall runs to the south and later to the east, where it seems to rejoin the stone circle, almost opposite its center. There are also remains of a wall that breaks off in the east. There are a large number of small tumuli on the bog, as well as on another one that is separated by a ravine .

Frederick Rhenius Coles (1854–1929) found in 1900 that the cairn was severely disturbed and reduced to a flat, level 3.6 m wide wall, which in some places protruded above the height of the lying stone, but was within the curbs.

Nearby are the Castle Frazer stone circle and row of stones .

literature

• J. Barnatt: Stone circles of Britain: taxonomic and distributional analyzes and a catalog of sites in England, Scotland and Wales, Brit Archaeol Rep, BAR British, Vol. 215. Oxford 1989.

Web links

• Entry on Tillyfourie Stone Circle  in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database

Coordinates: 57 ° 12 ′ 39.3 "  N , 2 ° 35 ′ 32.6"  W.