Copney stone circles
The Copney stone circles belong to the Ulster circles . They are on the slopes of Copney Hill east of Omagh in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland . The eight complete or partial stone circles were recently dug out of the peat. A comparison with the also Bronze Age Beaghmore suggests itself.
Some are filled with stone layers, others with a small central pile of stones . In other cases you can see concentric or radial built-in circles. There is also an alignment of low stones between two circles and a menhir . The largest circles have been excavated and are 15.5 and 17 m in diameter. An oval measures 22 by 24 m. The stones are rarely higher than 40 cm. The white color of the stones is caused by bleaching under the peat layer, which also decomposes the stones.
In the northwest lies a cairn about one meter high and about three meters in diameter, the large keystone of which is still in situ .
100 meters to the east is an arch made of eight low stones. The whole is part of a currently inaccessible megalithic landscape that fills the area immediately south of the Sperrin Mountains .
See also
literature
- Patricia A. Warke ;, Joanne M. Curran, Bernard J. Smith, Mark Gardiner et Claire Foley: Post-excavation deterioration of the Copney Bronze Age Stone Circle Complex: A geomorphological perspective. 2010
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Coordinates: 54 ° 38 ′ 47.1 ″ N , 7 ° 4 ′ 24 ″ W.