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Hob H
Hob Jan 23, 2007 19:29:37
Replying to tiompan

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?

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tiompan Jan 23, 2007 19:46:36
Replying to Hob

Hob wrote:
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?

According to Burl a circle was the basis of the design with the stones taking up points on it to create a rectangle except some of the Irish four posters didn't have stones on the perimeter and were more asymmetric .
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H hotaire
hotaire Feb 2, 2007 14:35:35
Replying to Hob

The High Bridestones on Sleights Moor (N. Yorks) is thought to be two aligned four-posters.