Skelsky menhirs.
the time allotted for inspection tourist site 10 minutes
Getting there
- Skelsky menhirs are right at the entrance to the village, the first house (country club).
In the village Rodnikovskoe (formerly Scaley) is the oldest monument in the Crimea, created by man - Skelsky menhirs (III - beginning of II millennium BC and. E..)
The Tatars are called menhirs "Temko, conceals what is translated as" delivered stone ".
Skelsky menhirs - a vertically set stone blocks, reminiscent of obelisks. They are iconic monuments of the Neolithic. Such facilities
found in Siberia, Western Europe, India, in the Caucasus.
Menhirs found in springs-relativistic were at the beginning of the XX century archaeologist N. I. Repnikova (1862-1940). In 1978, these blocks of marble-like limestone was investigated by A. Schepinsky.
A total of four Rodyikovskom can see menhir. Three of them have survived quite well, four - partly. Height of the first obelisk ("Big") is 2.8 m, weight - more than 6 tons, the second obelisk ("Small") below - 1.5 m
The latter is a fence around the monument at the mass grave of soldiers
Red Army and partisans who died during World War II. The third ("fallen") was discovered in 1989. Its height - 2.4 meters. Chetvertmy menhir retained only a fraction of its original size.
It is still unknown how the primitive people brought the stones in the # T Baydarskaya Valley, because this place is not the quarries, and the nearest cliff located a few kilometers. It is not excluded that the ancient people who established these blocks, like the creators of the famous English Stonehenge, which has roughly the same age as the menhirs, were engaged in astroaomachesknmi observations.
