NATURAL STONER

A play on words in this design. If you dont get it email me :). The recumbent stones are always placed in the SW of the circle design, hence the recumbent and 2 flanckers placed inside the 'O' in the SW position of the cardinal points. In case there are any heavy 'stoners' who want to debate the point. You can sound like you know what you are talking about with confidence when they point at your T shirt and scratch their heads :). The recumbent and flanckers below (art work) are drawn from the Breemie Stone circle at Lynne of Skene. Home of the Breemie Mid Summer Festival. Click here for more info about Breemie - Breemie

The History of the original Recumbent Stone Circle!

Originally built around 5000 years ago these unique stone circles to Aberdeenshire in Britain have a 'Recumbent stone' (horizontal or lying down stone). These always face the SW horizon if you are standing inside the circle. On either side of the recumbent are the 'flanckers'. These are the largest of the upright stones in the circle. As one moves around the Recumbent stone circle the stones decrease in size. The largest Recumbent stone (Old Keig) weighs 55 tons. How did they move them? Sometimes 20 miles away, across rivers and through forests and finally to their resting place up on top of a mid range hill or around the base of a Sacred Hill, such as here. Aberdeenshire has the most stone circles in Britain. Once their were more than 150 known circles. How many were there 4000 years ago, before the rise of Egypt. How many moon sets, sun rises, ceremonies and people have these stones been witness to? What do they remember and what can they tell?