Stoplesteinan

Stoplesteinan is a stone circle in the town of Egersund, Rogaland in Norway. The local humans regularly refer to it as a Stonehenge in miniature, although the best issue the 2 stone earrings have in commonplace is they each are made of stone positioned in a circular manner. The monument has a diameter of approximately 21 meters and consists of 16 raised stones. Some of the stones are up to 1.2 meters tall. Pilgrim's Route between Egersund and Sokndal is going proper via the Stoplesteinan. It is visible as a inexperienced strip within the flora just subsequent to the stone circle.

Recently an statistics signal has been erected some 10 to 20 meters south-east of Stoplesteinan. It isn't regarded how or why the stone circle was built. Similar stone monuments exist throughout Northern Europe and the British isles. Some of those had been excavated, and were observed to be graves relationship from the give up of the bronze age until the end of the early iron age, dated to among 500 BC to 600 AD in Scandinavia. In Sweden there are a notable range of comparable circles known as Domarringar.