Carse Farm stone circles

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Stone circle I from Carse Farm

The stone circles of Carse Farm ("Farm I" also Carse Farm North, Dull Circle or Weem Circle - and Carse "Farm II" also Carse Farm South or Tegarmuchd) are located in a field south of the road B 846, southwest of the hamlet of Dull in Perth and Kinross in Scotland .

Carse Farm I.

The Carse Farm I stone circle is a small four-post stone circle with three upright stones found in situ . In the field, it is roughly on the same axis as the Appin of Dull, a rock outcrop marked with a cup and the second circle. The top of the northeast stone is covered with bowls, one of which measures 10 × 9 cm. Canmore mentions 17 bowls on the northeast stone and three on the southeast stone. A. Burl dates the circle to 2150–1800 BC. To the Bronze Age .

When F. Coles found the circle in 1907, there were only three stones in situ. The southwest stone was missing, but between the stones was a long, thin slab, half buried. Of the three standing stones, the northeast stone is 1.2 m high, the southeast stone 1.6 m and the northwest stone 1.3 m high. During the excavation in 1964, the standing pit of the Südweststein was discovered and the slab that was lying on it was placed in it. The stones stood at the corners of a 3.7 × 2.4 m rectangle on a north-east-south-west oriented longitudinal axis. Canmore states that the excavation found a 76 cm wide and 37 cm deep pit on the inside of the northeast stone, which was filled with compacted cremated bones, black earth and charcoal, and a collar urn with incised geometrical edging. Structurally, Carse Farm I is reminiscent of the Bordley Stone Circle , more than 200 miles south in North Yorkshire , which is a prehistoric tomb rather than a stone circle.

Carse Farm II

Carse Farm II is the remainder of a circle of which only a 1.8 m high, 1.0 × 0.7 m stone has been preserved. The two lying stones are slabs that are half-buried in the ground about 9.0 m and 18.0 m southwest of the upright stone and, according to Cash, have bowls on the horizontal surface. No other stones survived. An entry from 1978 states that Ms. Stewart states that this is definitely not a four-post stone circle.

literature

  • Aubrey Burl: Four Posters: Bronze Age Stone Circles of Western Europe , BAR 195: Oxford 1988.
  • MEC Stewart: Carse Farm 1 and 2 In: Discovery & Excavation, Scotland, 1964.

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Coordinates: 56 ° 36 '53.5 "  N , 3 ° 57' 12.2"  W.