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tiompan Apr 14, 2008 07:26:34
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tiompan wrote:
chris s wrote:
Postman...Tiompan...Mark - the deed is done, the site included.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/11111/carvannel_menhir.html

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Thanks Chris , a splendid stone . Dunno if this has been mentioned previously but bigger stones are often marked on the earlier maps .Is it part of a boundary ?
Doh , may have helped to read the field notes first .

C chris s
chris s Apr 14, 2008 09:41:35
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Haha! No worries Tiompan chap.
Reason I had stuck a couple of threads up previously was to explore criteria like this and see what people thought before I went ahead and posted. So yes, tis NEAR a boundary...but not one - the boundary being a stream, and just west where the boundary does loop away from the stream it looks to very much preserve a fossilized former loop of the same...
Neither is it marked as a 'BS' on earlier OS sheets, which I guess presents its own set of problems. But its not recently set as a vanity stone I wouldn't think - it isn't in a home paddock with easy visibility from a house, yet it does seem to align quite nicely with a number of stone age features SW...and a hulking great chunk of rock is it too!

Chris