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in England Mayburgh is considered a possible , Gibbet Moor Derbyshire , Goatstones and Three Kings Northumberland certain and a host of dubious ones . Northern Island has Mullaghmore .Wales has The Four Stones at Walton and Brittany Chateau -Bu which is uncertain . It is suggested that they were a later development from rsc's then travelled south , or at least the builders did , through east and west Perthshire Angus then on to Arran where there are 6 possibles and Ireland where they are confined to Co's Cork , Kerry and Wexford.

tiompan wrote:
Three Kings Northumberland certain and a host of dubious ones
Three Kings deffo, it's got a burial and everything.
There's dubious one at Fontburn. If Fontburn is a four-poster, then so is one of the cairns at Lordenshaw, but neither of them are really. It's just that prehistoric Northumbrians weren't very good at sticking to the plan when it came to circles.

But there's a sort of blurry line, is a four poster a 'circle' per se (oviously the shape ain't circular, but you know what I mean..) or a glorified cairn? Has anyone ever shown that the burials are contemporary with the stones?