Temple Wood

The stone circles at Temple Wood are among the monuments of Nether Largie, southwest of Kilmartin in the county of Argyll and Bute, Scotland

Survey

The chronology of the monuments could not be fully exploited. First, the northern district consisted of a wooden henge. It was later replaced by stone pillars. The conversion seems to have remained unfinished. The following activities were directed solely to the Southwest District.

Important elements here were two small, built outside the circle Cairns, contained the stone boxes. The circle was formed by a completely closed ring. The spaces between the 22 large stones were filled by means of upright plates. The circle was surrounded by a nearly five -meter-wide dam made ​​of stones that covered the external Cairns. It can not be determined at which time the three structures were built within the circle. There are two different shaped stone settings in the South and in the Northeast, and the central cairn with the stone box. A structure is a set of plates oval circle of 2.5 to 3.0 m in diameter. The other is a box-like setting of six stones. The internal structures were eventually covered with pebbles.

Southwest district

The slightly oval southwestern stone circle measures 12 m × 13 m. It originally consisted of 22, up to 1.6 m high platy menhirs. Today there are only 14, partly as stumps. In the middle of the circle there is a stone box of 1.4 m × 0.8 m. Several burials were found in the box, in one of the stone circles within the ring and into the small boxes outside. A smaller stone in the largely destroyed southeast of the circle is the only perpendicular to the circle. It measures 1.05 m in height, 1.0 m in length and 0.1 m in thickness. Two nearly adjacent ring stones in the north are provided with carvings. One with only faintly discernible concentric circles, the other with a double spiral that spans two side surfaces. Two opposing stones ( north and south ) are from Schieferchlorit, the rest are from a different type of stone. On the outer side of one of the stones there may be some small bowls ( cupmarks ). Two small cupmarks were discovered on one of the spacer plates.

The northeast district

An older stone circle of 10 m × 10.5 m in diameter, was discovered in 1979 a few meters to the northeast. He was provided with a round riprap and markers to document the two phases. The older one is a Holzhenge, which was replaced by a ring of upright stones.

The Südcairn of Nether Largie is 250 m to the northeast and the menhirs of Nether Largie only 300 meters to the southeast.