Easter Aquhorthies

Easter Aquhorthies is a stone circle of type Recumbent Stone Circle (RSC ), which is very common in the region Grampian, especially on the River Dee. Feature of the RSC is a " lying stone " accompanied by two standing, high, often pointed " edge stones " that are inside the circle or near the circle. Easter Aquhorthies lies about three kilometers west of Inverurie in Aberdeenshire in Scotland.

The stones are, as usual for circuits of this type, by size ( 1.7 to 1.1 m) and color selection. The circle has a diameter of 19.5 m. Eight of the stones are made ​​of pink porphyry, the ninth is made of red jasper. The two high rocks that flank the recumbent stone, are of gray granite and the large dormant stone itself is made of red granite. In the center there might have been a cairn once. Here they found a stone box years ago, still bears witness to a small depression in the bottom of the.