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We had a similar discussion ages ago about the Glencullen standing stone in Co. Wicklow. It stands just under 6ft high, but is aledged to go down 20 feet.

Speculation, and taht's all it was, theorised about what would happen if you sank a solid quartz stone into an underground stream (of which there are many in the area): would stones etc. being bounced off it 'charge it up'?

Hmmm..

In the peizo electric effect a charge is produced between opposite sides of a crystal by "electron density displacement" in proportion to the stress applied to the crystal. When the stress is removed, the electron density reverts to its previous uniform state and there is no longer a charge. It's hard to see how any kind of permanent field could be created by a succession of minor impacts.

Postmen get shocks as they empty the terylene mail sacks. The weather must be absolutely dry and a thick crepe-soled shoe enhances the effect. There's often an audible crack and a 'little bright spark'. As the earthing point is usually a metal bench at waist height the shocks occur at that height. I've had plenty of shocks from mailbags but none from stones.

I suggest it's aesthetic energy we experience at the monuments. Just as one gets angry and sad at an art gallery - same kind of thing but stronger with the stones as they're on a larger scale.

Found the fourth stone row in Bolton - it's on the Golf Links and half buried by rubble. Has two alignments as it's crooked a third the way up.