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StoneGloves wrote: I know who owns Holy Mire but not who owns Whitehouse. It's on the roadside and can be seen from the gateway. There are houses nearby to ask at. Please post results somewhere here perhaps ... We visited the Whitehouse four poster site today and we are afraid we were not convinced that these are the remains of a four poster circle. The stones lie on a very steep slope, a situation we have never seen for a 4P. In additon, only 1 metre downslope from the stones there is a wide level platform that would easily have accommodated them. This is the first time measuring stone heights where we have had to choose between the usual vertical measurement, or one perpendicular to the ground surface, it was that steep. The stones themselves had some very sharp edges and surface features, the kind you generally don't see after 4000 years+ of weathering and livestock massaging. We've photographed around 25 4Ps including variants like Shethin, monsters like Four Stones and weird ones like Glassel, but this site just didn't look or feel right. The whole area has been the site of intensive stone quarrying and we noticed two filled-in quarries only 50m upslope from the stones, we suspect that the Whitehouse stones may have had a more recent origin there. We also talked to the landowner and he had no idea that a stone circle had been reported to the HER on his land, he was absolutely baffled when we showed him the site. Sorry to be so negative, we are no experts and may be totally wrong about this, but we both felt strongly that this was a wrong un'. We did do our standard full work-up on the site and even checked for rock art, it will appear online eventually. Maggie & Keith Reply | with quote | Posted by Megalithics 10th October 2010ce 20:44 In reply to: Re: Is it possible to contract a geophysics survey? (StoneGloves) |
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