About four-posters​….

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StoneLifter S
StoneLifter Jan 23, 2007 11:19:59
Replying to CianMcLiam

There's been very little work done on Four-posters, so we don't know much about them. Either a favourite way of knacking them was by breaking the symmetry and removing one of the boulders or else there were many 'Three-posters' built, which doesn't make much sense. The best preserved example I know has two pairs of low outliers, one upstream and one downstream, and it seems reasonable to assume that they are 'under-represented in the historical record'.

T tiompan
tiompan Jan 23, 2007 13:23:02
Replying to StoneLifter

Burl wrote a paper on them with a few inaccuracies . The heartland is Perthshire with others in Angis ,Kincardine and Aberdeenshire . In general the furhter from these areas the smaller they become but there are some quite bijou examples even in Perthshire . The orientations are not precise but close to the cardinal points . Long views to the south , cup marks , cremated bone deposits , cists and quartz scatters are some associations .There are some cases which have one or more low intervening slabs set neatly between the tall corner stones e.g. Lundin , Fortingall . a bit like cairn kerbing .