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Rockrich R
Rockrich Sep 11, 2006 14:13:42
Replying to StoneLifter

StoneLifter wrote:
Bits of flint to rough out and odd lumps of sandstone to soften it. There are cavities ground into some rocks that are not in the Rock Art catalogues yet - they are more interesting. Deep irregular holes (this shape http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/45353 but deep. I've some photographs - they might not be developed before Christmas ! And stones that are perforated with round holes are acceptable, yet others, with square or rectangular holes, are excluded. 'Gateposts'. Here's a stone that's lying in the open as nobody has recognised that it's carved - http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/44496 - and it's not 'fossils' on the surface, it's more of these odd 'cupmarks'.
:-)

S StoneLifter
StoneLifter Sep 11, 2006 14:45:31
Replying to Rockrich

I've got one of these stones at home - it's been buried and the carvings are, consequently, fresh. In these cupmarks, at the base, I can see pick marks. I could photograph them, I suppose. I offered to lend this stone - which is beyond what the HSE would term 'portable' - to Aron at the Uni., for six weeks. He said "the lift only goes to the third floor". I was going to show you the stone if you'd got through about half - say twenty - of the Knarsdale carved stones. It's my good luck charm and radiates a phenomenal spooky aura. (There's a picture of it on the Thornhope page).

I'd better go and catch me bus. I've got one of these natural oval-hollowed stone to photograph ...