I was thinking about the idea of the stump alongside the Watch Stone being the (?sole) remnant of
a large stone circle now beneath the waters of the Loch of Stenness. If so might the Lochview settlement located by geophysics be in the same relationship to the putative henge as Barnhouse settlement is to the Stones of Stenness ? The crannog researchers have been snorkelling the edges of the Lochs of Stenness and Harray but who knows where the next stone might lie. At an OISF talk this afternoon it was mentioned that we don't really know when in the Neolithic the henge was constructed, and that the stones aren't all from the same place. Could it be that when the suggested circle started to be threatened by the deepening loch some or all of the stones were 'rescued' for other projects ? Think about the stone found lying at the lochside near the Ring of Brodgar. I always found it a little strange that it was the 'wrong' side of the henge for having been transported from some quarry only to be dumped. But if it came from another circle within the (present) loch it represents a lesser 'waste' of resources. Simply superfluous.
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11th September 2004ce
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