Twelve Apostles (Newbridge)
The Twelve Apostles ( German "Twelve Apostles" ) is a stone circle between the villages of Holywood and Newbridge, in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland .
It is the seventh largest stone circle in Great Britain and the largest in mainland Scotland. It is designed similar to the Cumbrian Stone Circles and is considered an outlier of this group. There is a smaller stone circle of the same name ( Twelve Apostles ) on Burley Moor in West Yorkshire , England .
The circle consists of eleven stones, five of which are in situ . A picture by Francis Grose from 1789 and the land survey from 1791 show twelve stones. A stone was removed prior to 1837, as evidenced by the new land survey for Holywood. Local lore of the 19th century associates the stones with the twelve apostles and the distant twelfth stone with Judas Iscariot .
The oval circle has a largest diameter of about 89.0 meters. The tallest upright stone is about 1.9 meters high. The longest is in the southwest and is 3.2 meters long. All but one of the stones are of Silurian; the other made of white porphyry . Four, including the porphyry stone, are erratic boulders .
- Twelve Apostles Newbridge
The Easthill Stone Circle is three miles west of the Twelve Apostles. Another stone circle was a mile to the east, near the River Nith, and it was destroyed. There are two cursus nearby (Hollywood A + B), one of which runs in the direction of the circle.
In 1882 it was reported that years earlier a 10 cm high bronze figure was discovered in the circle. The 12th century figure identified as Saint Norbert is in the Dumfries Museum.
Nearby is the Easthill stone circle .
literature
- Aubrey Burl: A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 2005, ISBN 0-300-11406-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ There are about 50 stone circles in Cumbria, including some of the earliest in Britain. The range of types extends from the huge monumental circles Stone Circle of Castlerigg , Stone Circle of Swinside and Long Meg and her Daughters to early Bronze Age circles of around 30 m in diameter such as Casterton Elva Plain, to smaller rings. Some are henges .
Web links
- Entry on Twelve Apostles in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland's database
- Description and pictures (English)
Coordinates: 55 ° 5 '52.2 " N , 3 ° 39' 6.8" W.