Stone row
As a stone row is referred to in archeology an alignment of menhirs ( upright megalith ). From such a series is when at least three menhirs are arranged in sight and clear in context to each other. The distances vary between 0 and 100 m. Several rows of stones next to each other are called avenues. These may consist of up to eleven rows of menhirs ( Carnac in Brittany ).
Occurrence
Stone rows are used primarily in Western Europe, including West Switzerland ( Clendy, Lutry ), but also in Corsica ( Palaggiu ) and Sardinia ( Biru e ' Conca and Pranu Muteddu ) ago. Extremely common and extended they are in Brittany alignments de Cojoux, ( Champ des Roches, Kerlescan, Kermario Kerzerho, Lagatjar, Le Menec, Le Petit Menec, Pierre Droites, St. Barbe and St. Pierre -Quiberon ).
Approximately 550 meters long is the stone row on the fen west of Fox Tor on Bodmin Moor. Even plants of small stones as Hwylfa'r Ceirw, English The Path of the Deer ( " path of the deer " ), and a double row of stones at Llandudno in Wales are sometimes referred to as a stone row. Among the rows of stones of Ireland, the stone row Eightercua at Waterville in County Kerry and the Graves of the Leinstermen stands out due to the block heights in County Tipperary.
Dating
The 2004 discovered stone row on Cut Hill in the northern Dartmoor in Cornwall in England is the first that could be dated. It dates from 3500 BC It was previously assumed that they originate from the Bronze Age (about 2000 BC), but the oldest ( Northwest European ) date from the Neolithic period.
Scandinavia and northern Central Europe
In Denmark, 154 m long stone row ( Danish Stenrækken ) on Myrhøj at Ertebølle and about 90 m long double row at Refsnæs ( Stenrækkerne ved Refsnæs ) in East Himmerland the most remarkable. In the Swedish Bohuslän there is the stone row at Hällevadsholm in Svarteborg and on the burial ground of Stenehed. In Germany the phenomenon of stone series is known only at a 53 m long, not more completely preserved series, which connects the two megalithic stones of mountains Hekeser - Hekese, in the district of Osnabrück, Lower Saxony.
Other Rules of the monoliths
Nonlinear stone circles of menhirs, eg as a semi -, D- or U-shaped, as Achavanich in the Highlands of Scotland or Saint- Pierre -Quiberon in Brittany, are in the British Isles as Stone settings, in France as enclosure ( enceintes ), the rest of Western Europe in general with the Breton word for stone circle, as cromlechs called ( Cromlech of Almendres in Portugal).
An oval enclosure of tight stone was found under the tumulus of Tossen - Keler in Penvénan (Brittany ). It stands today at the Quai of Tréguier. There are also some square enclosure (French quadrilatère ) as Crucuno and de Mario at Carnac and Lagatjar near Brest in Brittany. The formation of Le Manio, however, the curbs of a former hill dar. The French archaeologist Pierre -Roland Giot assumes that the modest number of circles and enclosures in Brittany is due to the fact that many of them destroyed over time or in other systems have been installed.