#beaghmore

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Beaghmore stone circles, County Tyrone

[julianworker]

Beaghmore Stone Circles

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Taking the A505 westwards from Cookstown in County Tyrone, I found my right-hand turning to…

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You just can’t keep a good woman in a red fleece down - not when there are rocks to be surveyed.

This is the Beaghmore Stone Circles in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

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[julianworker]

Beaghmore Stone Circle - 2

Beaghmore Stone Circle – 2

The site was discovered by a local historian George Barnett in the late 1930s during peat cutting when precisely 1,269 stones were uncovered. The site was partially excavated in the four years after the end of the second world war when it was taken into state care. The circles were also excavated in 1965.

Investigation of the site indicates that the area has been occupied since Neolithic times…

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[julianworker]

Beaghmore Stone Circles - 1

Beaghmore Stone Circles – 1

Taking the A505 westwards from Cookstown in County Tyrone, I found my right-hand turning to the Beaghmore Stone Circles after about 15 minutes. Having just visited the Giant’s Causeway, I was expecting to be one of a number of visitors to these Bronze Age relics. The drive through the countryside afforded wonderful views of the Sperrin Mountains, though I had to be careful as the road was narrow…

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[thomasbonar]

Beaghmore - was first uncovered in 1945-9 when 1269 stones were uncovered, they had been buried in the thick layer of peat that is a dominating feature of this area. Further work in 1965 revealed more of the complex, although it is almost certain that further structures still lie buried in the surrounding peat. A total of seven circles, six of which are paired, were discovered, along with many cairns, some of which have associated stone rows. A typical feature of the Beaghmore stone rows is a "high and low" arrangement where short rows of tall stones run beside much longer rows of small stones. The rows may show rough alignments to the midwinter sunset at the SW, although an horizon raised 3 degrees or so by a nearby tree line would be necessary for these alignments to be valid.

The circles and rows we see at the site today are thought to date from about 1600 BC, the early Bronze Age, but they are not the earliest evidence of usage of the site. Hearths and deposits of flint tools were discovered and have been carbon dated to 2900-2600BC, in addition, several of the stone rows run over the tumbled walls of field structures which also date from the Neolithic period.

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Beaghmore Stone Circles (IMG0337) by Chris-Ibbotson-Photography on Flickr.