Choice of Stones

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moss wrote:
Well I have another puzzle, four stone, stone circles, why? they obviously make a square.
When Postman put in the photos a four post setting a few days ago, I had just noticed in a book I was reading the four stones at Walton, Powys, you can see photos

here.....http://www.isleofalbion.co.uk/sites/20/the_four_stones.php

4 to 6 feet in height and about 6 feet space in the middle. Looking at the Meini Hirion stone circle and you can almost see a four stones set in a square, is this because they are a guide to building the circle or entrances. I suppose there is no answer to these enigmatic 4 stoners apart from the long and short of it all.....

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/103765/y_meini_hirion.html

Most genuine four posters are on the circumference of a circle .This is also supposed to be one http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/288/clachan_an_diridh.html but clearly the long faces of the stones are not respecting any circumference .

I've been wanting to ask a 'stone related' question ever since I returned from my Irish trip but wondered if it something that didn't apply in the UK. The information boards at all the stone circles visited in West Cork said that they always contained an uneven number of stones. I recall most of the circles in Cornwall are nine or nineteen but in some cases it seemed uncertain if these were the original numbers.