Sunhoney
Sunhoney is a block circuit of the type recumbent Stone Circle (RSC) in the region of the Grampian , particularly at the River Dee is very common. A characteristic of the RSC is a "lying or resting stone", accompanied by two standing, high, often tapering "flank stones", which are located within the circle or near the circle. Sunhoney is about two kilometers west of Echt in Aberdeenshire , Scotland .
The stone circle is more than 25 m in diameter and consists of eleven stones made of red granite or gneiss . The resting stone seems to have fallen over. Its surface is provided with 31 bowls . A cairn ring was added inside the circle. During the excavation in 1865, traces of corpse burn were found in the center.
Another dormant stone circle is about two kilometers west of Midmar Church .
The stone circles on the River Dee
The Deeside Stone Circles form a group of Recumbent Stone Circle (RSC). About 100 of them were born between 2500 and 1500 BC. In Aberdeenshire. The ensembles of the "resting stones" are usually in the southeast and (usually) on the course of the ring.
literature
- Anna Ritchie, Graham Ritchie: Scotland. To Oxford Archaeological Guide . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-19-288002-0 , ( Oxford archaeological guides ), p. 149.
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Coordinates: 57 ° 8 '28.9 " N , 2 ° 28' 15.9" W.