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FourWinds Jan 31, 2006 20:32:36
Replying to nigelswift

http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/1059

Maybe the earliest sundial there is? There's a similar stone on Patrickstown Hill at Loughcrew at Cairn X (I think). However, this stone doesn't face south and the one at Loughcrew is inside a tomb.


The stone in this photo http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/43664 is also thought to be a sundial. There is a cupmark in the upper surface of the stone and a large curved groove. I really should have a better photo of it somewhere.

C CianMcLiam
CianMcLiam Jan 31, 2006 20:54:00
Replying to FourWinds

This is pretty difficult to get a good photograph of but it does certainly look like a representation of a sundial: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v463/CianMcLiam/Knowth009.jpg

Its on top of one of the kerbstones around the main mound at Knowth, very near the East enterance.

P PeterH
PeterH Jan 31, 2006 21:12:50
Replying to FourWinds

http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/1059

"Maybe the earliest sundial there is? There's a similar stone on Patrickstown Hill at Loughcrew at Cairn X (I think). However, this stone doesn't face south and the one at Loughcrew is inside a tomb."

That is so very similar to Saxon sundials that I wonder if it is not a much later carving over earlier ones