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Tyrebagger (also called Dyce) a stone circle type recumbent Stone Circle (RSC) of about 20 m in diameter. A characteristic of the RSC is a "lying stone" accompanied by two standing, high, often tapering "flank stones" that are located within the circle or near the circle.
Tyrebagger is on to the Grampians belonging Tyrebagger Hill (field of acorns), between the "Kirk Hall Industrial Estate" at the airport of Aberdeen and Blackburn in Dyce in the Scottish Council Area Aberdeenshire . RSC circles were established between 2300 and 1800 BC. Built in BC.
The flanking pillars of the inclined (tilted) 24 t heavy and 3.3 m long lying stone are 3.3 and 2.9 m high. The other eight stones of the circle vary in height from about 2.5 to less than 0.9 m, compared to the lying stone in the north. According to a report from 1875, there was a concentric inner circle and another smaller stone circle outside the complex .
literature
- Anna Ritchie, Graham Ritchie: Scotland. To Oxford Archaeological Guide . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-19-288002-0 , ( Oxford archaeological guides )
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Coordinates: 57 ° 12 '34.2 " N , 2 ° 14' 3.4" W.