Row of stones from Searle's Down
The row of stones at Searle's Down is on the south bank of Colliford Reservoir, north of St Neot at Liskeard in Cornwall , England . It was identified by Peter Herring and excavated by Frances Griffith in the 1970s. She describes the stones in the row of stones as "tiny".
None of the fallen stones, the largest dimensions of which were measured, is longer than 0.5 m, and no standing stone rises more than 0.2 m above the ground. Seven are less than 0.1 m high and the average height is only 0.107 m, so the stones barely break through the surface. The row was originally 296 m long and ended near a cairn . The length of the row available for checking depends on the water level in the reservoir. Eight stones were recorded in 2017.
Dating
The Bronze Age stone row of Searle's Down was covered by the inner stone circle of a burial mound. The outer stone circle of the hill provided a date of calibrated 2040–1620 BC. And the excavator Frances Griffith assumes that there was no major hiatus between the construction of the stone row and the burial mound . The row of stones discovered in 2004 on Cut Hill in north Dartmoor in Devon , England, 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.
Nearby is the 1.6 m long, 0.6 m wide and 0.3 m thick Trebinnick Menhir .
literature
- Frances Griffith: "Archaeological Investigations at Colliford Reservoir, Bodmin Moor, 1977-78", Cornish Archeology 1984 pp 49-140.
- Peter Herring: “Searle's Down - A newly discovered stone row” In Meyn Mamvro, No. 80, 2013 pp. 16-17.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralph M. Fyfe, Tom Greeves: The Date and Context of a Stone Row: Cut Hill, Dartmoor, South-West England. In: Antiquity. Volume 84, 2010, pp. 55-70.