Broughderg Stone Circles
The stone circles of Broughderg ( Irish Bruach Dearg ) are about 3.8 km west of the circles of Beaghmore and east of the Cloghmore Court tomb in the Sperrin Mountains in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland . They belong to the Mid-Ulster-type stone circles .
In Broughderg there are two stone circles with a small cairn about 3.0 m in diameter and a menhir about 1.5 m high between them in the northwest. The north circle consists of ten and the south circle of fourteen preserved stones. Aubrey Burl speaks of five (low) circles in this confusing region.
See also
literature
- Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland: Historic monuments of Northern Ireland. An introduction and guide . Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO), Belfast 1987, ISBN 0-337-08180-8 .
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 42 ′ 7.4 ″ N , 6 ° 59 ′ 19.6 ″ W.