Three Kings (stone setting)
The four- poster stone circle ( English Four-poster stone circle ) Three Kings is located on a wide terrace overlooking the Rede River near Byrness in the Redesdale forest in Northumberland in England .
The stone circle is 4.2 m in diameter and consists of four irregular sandstone blocks with an average height of 1.4 m and width of 0.9 m, one of which has fallen over. It is believed that the stones were quarried on site, as sandstone rocks are in the immediate vicinity of the monument.
The excavation in 1971 revealed that there was a looted ring cairn inside . It probably dates from the 2nd millennium.
The complex has been a national monument since 1997 (No. 25074).
literature
- Aubrey Burl: Four-posters: Bronze Age stone circles of Western Europe. BAR, Oxford 1988, pp. 66-67
Coordinates: 55 ° 18 ′ 6.9 " N , 2 ° 21 ′ 25.2" W.