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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Uerzlikon WisligCountry: Switzerland
NOTE: This site is 1.033 km away from the location you searched for.
Canton: Zürich Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Zug Nearest Village: Uerzlikon
Latitude: 47.225140N Longitude: 8.510210E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Megalithic89 visited on 5th Feb 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Richard Walker measured the site in April 2020. He presumes that this place had a calendric function in ancient times, for agriculture. The line would go from the stone circle towards the gap between the two blocks (or vice-versa). The azimuth he calculated is 61°, 241°. This azimuth corresponds to 1 month before and after summer solstice sunrise, in our area (47°N). 1)
I perceived a wide-open space towards the sky, above the elliptical stone circle.
The stones are in a moor area under today`s nature protection. 2) You can’t notice this on site, it doesn’t have any nature protection signs. Please do not enter the moor area during the growing season. Rare flowers grow here. I visited the place twice in February, on dry days. One can study the place from next to the road. Alternatively, by going into the forest opposite the road and walking along the edge of the forest. The forest is not under nature protection. Thank you for your consideration.
Nearest stop of public transport: “Uerzlikon, Kappelerstrasse”. From there, follow the Kappelerstrasse in the direction of Kappel am Albis.
There are different forest roads close to the site. You can park your car in a reasonable place along the forest roads.
The Swiss Inventory of Archaeological Stones, www.ssdi.ch not yet approves this place.
Sources of information:
1) Link to "Richard Walker, "Stonehenge im Säuliamt", Nachträge Version 12, p. 31”
2) Geo Information System (GIS Browser ZH) on the Internet.
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