Stone corrals

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David Raven Dec 2, 2005 23:19:38
Replying to Littlestone

Hi Littlestone,

>Yes, the stones at Meikle Findowie are small but they do seem to fit the corral configuration. Guess it depends what was being kept there and if the stones have slumped at all over the years.<


Sorry I'm not up to speed on this; what's a 'corral configuration'?

(A mate reckons that a local site may have been in use as a stock corral, I just wondered what criteria or indications might substantiate that theory for a site's layout.)


Cheers
Dave

L Littlestone
Littlestone Dec 3, 2005 00:13:44
Replying to David Raven

>...what's a 'corral configuration'?<

To be honest Dave it's all still just an idea (though I'm encouraged by your friend's suggestion that, "...a local site may have been in use as a stock corral..." and would be interested to hear more about that.

Though I have great respect for our ancient circles perhaps it's also worthwhile looking at things from a different angle sometimes and not just accepting 'in vogue' ideas that stone circles were places of esoteric/religious/festive gathering but that some were just simple pens for livestock.

I look at tiompan's photo at http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/img_fullsize/39584.jpg for example, and nickbrand's photo at http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/img_fullsize/13499.jpg, and I really don't see anything esoteric there; just stones that may have formed posts for pens.

Happy to be disproved on that however :-)