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mountainman wrote:
There was some earlier discussion about this site, with suggestions that it is a site used for sharpening implements, or that the marks are tally-marks of some sort. what we have is a string of notches cut along the sides of a natural fissure, with the notches cut perpendicular to the fissure itself and on both sides of it. I have put a picture on the Stonehenge Thoughts blog.

I now think that this looks like very early Ogham script, dating maybe from the period before 400 AD when Irish / Celtic groups were wandering about in north Pembrokeshire and maybe competing for territory. The site is now out in the open air, but I'm convinced that when the notches were cut there was a roof over it, supported by the natural sloping rock face on one side and by a semi-circular stone wall on the other. Imagine some old fellow, sitting in there one day, nice and dry, while a storm raged outside, wanting to do something just to pass the time......


A pic would be nice .It sounds like it might be one of the Welsh "Arrow Stones " .If so here are few other sites in Scotland that have similar marks e.g. http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/7641/balendune.html .I have found a couple of others in Perthshire but never posted as they can't be dated but when they are on surfaces that bear rock art then the RA provides the the potential date , in which case there are qiuite a few others e.g. http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/8872/glascorrie.html go down to the bottom two pics at the left . These look they are comtemporary with the more trad engravings .Then there are the irish markings on the sidestone at Castelderg the capstone at Rathkenny and the shelter called Pluais na Scriob


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tiompan
Posted by tiompan
17th May 2011ce
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