About Stone Circle
A stone circle is a circular alignment of standing stones. They are commonly found across Northern Europe and Great Britain and typically date from the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age eras, with most concentrations appearing from 3000 BC.
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... Other sites from the same period in history are close by, and include a Stone Circle at Torbreck and chambered cairn at Culduthel in Inverness...
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... On the solstice, the sun rises behind the entrance to the Stone Circle, and rays of light are channelled into the centre of the monument...
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... At the centre of the medieval mosaic is a polished Stone Circle with a swirling pattern, surrounded by rings of designs in glass, marble and coloured stone, and this is where the coronation chair will be placed when King Charles is crowned on 6 May...
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... " The original purpose of Stonehenge remains a mystery, but the Stone Circle built in about 2,500 BC...
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... We went through some of the fields in the vicinity of the Stone Circle late in the night, and through some dense trees and came to a clearing in the vicinity of the first fence...
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... 2003: Ali Bird Blagging in the ballroom back in Lost vagueness, bottles of champagne, stay up all night, Stone Circle, sunrise...
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... the winnersWhen the archaeologists began an investigation into a Stone Circle, found in rural Aberdeenshire, you thought you had old stumbled on a site that for thousands of years...
Cairngorms loch dropped to lowest level in '750 years'
... But four Western Isles sites have been radiocarbon dated to about 3640-3360 BC in the Neolithic period - before the erection of Stonehenge s Stone Circle...
Scotland's crannogs are older than Stonehenge
Neolithic pottery was previously found near crannogs in the Western Isles
Archaeologists have discovered that some Scottish crannogs are thousands of years older than previously thought.
Crannogs were fortified settlements constructed on artificial islands in lochs.
It was thought they were first built in the Iron Age , a period that began around 800 BC.
But four Western Isles sites have been radiocarbon dated to about 3640-3360 BC in the Neolithic period - before the erection of Stonehenge's Stone Circle .
The prehistoric monument in Wiltshire is One of Britain's best-known Neolithic features. Stonehenge's Stone Circle was erected in the late Neolithic period, about 2500 BC.
Another famous Neolithic site is Skara Brae , a village in Orkney inhabited between 3200 BC and 2200 BC.
One of the crannogs in the Western Isles has a stone causewayArchaeologists Dr Duncan Garrow , of University of Reading, and Dr Fraser Sturt, from the University of Southampton, investigated four crannog artificial islands in The Isle of Lewis in the Western Isles.
At One of the sites well-preserved Neolithic pottery had previously been found on The Loch bed by Chris Murray , a former Royal Navy diver who lives in Lewis.
The archaeologists' investigation included making underwater surveys and carrying out excavations at the sites to obtain "conclusive evidence of artificial islet construction during the Neolithic ".
Four crannogs in the Western Isles were found to date to the Neolithic periodThe archaeologists, said the crannogs represented "a monumental effort" through the piling up of boulders on The Loch bed, and in the case of a site in Loch Bhorgastail The Building of a stone causeway.
They said it was possible other Scottish crannogs, and similar sites in Ireland, were also Neolithic .
Previously it was thought crannogs were built and re-used over a period of 2,500 years from the Iron Age to the post-medieval period.
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Source of news: bbc.com