Lapse of Memory

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Stoneshifter wrote:
A proper name for a holed stone is a Tolmen. Would be good to bring that into usage. There is a line of (I think) five of them somewhere in south Yorkshire and I suppose, seeing as there are several other Yorkshire sites in the film, that this stone is one of those. The name for the holed stones is something like Trainbridge - that's just a guess - or the Wheelwright stones. Archaeologists don't like holed stones, so they get scant attention, and this board follows that lead - and that's a shame. They're often dismissed as former gateposts, which they sometimes have been, though the dimensions of ancient ones will relate to units of the Megalithic Inch. In Bolton there are plenty of rectangular ones - which may say things about Boltonians old and new !
I live in S Yorkshire, if there was even 1 of them i'd know about it lol, i wish there was though.
Thanks for the reply anyway though.

Chris (above) is right - the Wheeldale stones. I was wrong about where they are, south, north, bejabers. Are you anywhere near Oldham? Or, particularly, Tunstall? There was one, or maybe two, that you could see from the M62 in the golf course. They've gone missing in the last three or four years but are possibly just pushed over. I could work out a position for them from GoogleEarp, but it would take a while ...