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The Standing Stones of Torhouse (also Torhousekie) are a stone circle of nineteen granite boulders on the land of Torhouse, three miles west of Wigtown, Scotland. ==Description== The stone circle consists nineteen granite boulders set on a slightly raised platform.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Torhouse Stone Circle )〕 The stones have a height ranging from about 0.6 metres to 1.5 metres and are arranged in a circle with a diameter of about 22 metres.〔 The larger stones, over 1 metre high, are on the southeast side.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Torhouse Stone Circle )〕 Three upright boulders stand in a line near the centre of the circle. The direction of the line of the three central stones is northeast to southwest.〔 Two stones stand 40 metres to the south-southeast of the stone circle, one large and the other small, and there is a stone row of three stones 130 metres to the east.〔 There are also surviving remains of several burial cairns, and history records others long removed to build field dykes.〔 The stone circle has not yet been archaeologically excavated. It probably dates to the Neolithic period or the Bronze Age.〔〔 The Torhouse Stones are in the care of Historic Scotland.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Torhouse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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