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StoneGloves wrote: I'm afraid you're going to be more specific than that. Which stones do you mean? As I've listed several different stones, that are as far as half a mile apart, it is difficult to understand which ones you are referring to when you say they are common features on stones. How are you able to tell the profile of the cupmarks on the stones from my poor photographs. The Slaggyford Stones are a couple of standing stones - one about five feet high, marked on two sides, very eroded, and the second just a couple of feet high. There's only the photos of one of those stones on that site page, so how are you able to deduce that 'they don't look like standing stones to me'. You would need to visit them to form a valid opinion, surely. You have shown me that a group of boulders, that have been quarried, carved and arranged, would be unique in the British archaeological record. Eventually I may be grateful for that insight but, at the moment, am simply irritated. I do wish that I had taken a simple GPS handset on the fell to record their location accurately and I do wish I had the ability to return to these stones to take proper photographs. It could be that these carved stones are the crumbs amongst the larger monuments I have found and that I should concentrate on these more. I do have more photographs but they are in very deep storage indeed. I don't think I've ever posted a pic of the Pogglestone, which is on the Cumbria-Northumberland border, nor do I recall posting a picture of the smaller of the two standing stones, which has two conventional cupmarks on one facet. I've found a few standing stones and this is the first time anyone has said 'it's not a standing stone'. It's like pointing to the sea and saying 'that's a motorway filling station' (ie it's ridiculous). The larger of these Slaggyford stones has quite an atmosphere - but you have to get past some devious and difficult farmers before you can see it. It's neither near a footpath nor under Right To Roam. But it is aligned and, from there, you can see maybe fifty miles, which is a long way in those hills ... There was a group of pics posted on 4th September these are the ones I was referring to ., the comments were posted on the same day and soon after the pics were posted so it would have been clear enough what was being referred to .On the page for the “Slaggyford stones “ pics 1,3 4 & 5 look much the same ,despite being low quality they are recognisable enough . I doubt anyone who knows anything about rock art having seen these stones or the pics would suggest that the markings were man made . These markings are natural and quite common . Even when cups are small they still show much the same profile of larger cups , that of an inverted cone , the sides are not vertical and edges not sharply defined , the examples in the pics and other natural examples are not like that . By your own admission and the fact that you enquired about the small cup marks it is clear you have little experience in seeing rock art in the flesh ,once you have seen a few hundred examples you begin to get an eye . I hope it’s all right with the eds and post a few pics of common type of markings often confused with man made markings and remove them in a couple of days . Only the stone by the fence could be described as looking anything like a standing stone and these can be encountered on a daily basis whilst wandering the countryside , TMA would double it’s gallery in no time if everyone contributed similar examples . Having an atmosphere is not a valid assessment of typology and "being aligned " is meaningless everything can be said to be "aligned " with anything in it's viewshed . Reply | with quote |  9th September 2011ce 11:51 In reply to: Re: Slaggyford Stones . (StoneGloves) |
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