Yonder Bognie stone circle
The stone circle of Yonder Bognie (also called Yonder Bognie Wardend or Yonder Bognie Warden) is a stone circle of the Recumbent Stone Circle (RSC) type made of large basalt stones that slope gently towards the east. It is east of the A97, by the hamlet of Yonder Bognie, south of Marnoch in Aberdeenshire in Scotland . Feature of the RSCs is a "lying stone" accompanied by two standing, high, often pointed "edge stones" ( English flankers ) which is part of the circle or are located near the circle. The most common circles on the River Dee were made between 2300 and 1800 BC. Built in BC.
The oval circle measures approximately 16.0 by 20.0 m. The “lying” stone is 3.4 m long, 1.5 m thick and 1.6 m high. The eastern flank stone has fallen over and is partially covered with grass. There is a distance of 0.3 m between the lying and the western flank stone. The circle stones have heights between 1.0 and 1.8 m. There is no evidence of a hill in the center of the circle.
literature
- Aubrey Burl: A guide to the stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany. Yale University Press, London 1995, ISBN 0-300-06331-8 .
- 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
Web links
- Entry on Yonder Bognie Stone Circle in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
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Coordinates: 57 ° 30 ′ 1.3 " N , 2 ° 40 ′ 4.8" W.