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Re: Unidentified cup marks
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tiompan wrote:
Emma A wrote:
Yes I suppose they are like bowl barrows - that shape hollowed into the surface. It's as if they started to make a cup mark but gave up before they'd done the middle!


Boss =a raised area in the centre of the ring as opposed to the inverted cone of a cup .


Well that sounds like them! On one of the photos you can see how the pine needles have collected around the edge but the centre is raised. And they're not just rings because the centres are sort of domed instead of being flat and surface level (if that make sense!).


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Emma A
Posted by Emma A
13th September 2012ce
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