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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

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tiompan Apr 14, 2008 10:10:50
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chris s wrote:
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

I can think of a few local stones ,non vanity , that look the part but have been proved to have been erected in living memory usually as a memorial .Unlike stone circles standing stones have been part of marking territory and events up to the present so difficult date unless of course there is a deposit of some kind .There is even a stone circle in Glen Clova marked on the map and credited in Canmore but erected by the local farmer , they didn't ask , he didn't say . The menhir It does look the part though .Ultimately a pro archaeo would look at oldest maps and local history after that without digging your guess is as good as theirs .