Stone row nine maidens
The stone row Nine maidens ( German "nine virgins" ) is a row of stones , in a field east of the A39 near Winnards Perch, between St Columb Major and Wadebridge about 3.2 km east of St. Columb Major, in Cornwall , in England .
The nine virgins are known in Cornish as "Naw-voz" or "Naw-whoors" ( German "nine sisters" ) and should not be confused with the " Nine Maidens Downs " or the " Nine Maidens " stone circle .
description
The approximately 108 m long northeast-southwest oriented row of the Nine maidens is aligned with a stone known as Fiddler (not The Blind Fiddler or other Fiddler stones), which is about 680 meters away next to the A39. The row consists of nine menhirs , which vary in height from 0.8 to 2.1 m. The northernmost stone lies and has broken. The stones are irregularly spaced.
Dating
The row of stones discovered in 2004 on Cut Hill in northern Dartmoor is the first to be dated. The peat under stone 1 was calibrated to 3700-3540 BC using the radiocarbon method. The peat above it is calibrated to 2476–2245 BC. Chr.
literature
- DD Emmett: Stone rows. The traditional view reconsidered. In: Valerie A. Maxfield (Ed.): Prehistoric Dartmoor in its Context (= Devon Archaeological Society. Proceedings. No. 37, ISSN 0305-5795 ). Devon Archaeological Society, Exeter 1979, pp. 94-114.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralph M. Fyfe, Tom Greeves: The Date and Context of a Stone Row: Cut Hill, Dartmoor, South-West England. In: Antiquity. Vol. 84, No. 323, 2010, ISSN 0003-598X , pp. 55-70, doi : 10.1017 / S0003598X00099762 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 17.8 " N , 4 ° 54 ′ 33.6" W.