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tjj Jun 29, 2012 18:03:06
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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.

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tiompan Jun 29, 2012 18:51:32
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tjj wrote:
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.
The reason for so many odd numbered stones in the circles could be tht many are recumbent stone circles and the architecure is often that of paired stones plus recumbent which would always produce an odd number . There are four posters in Cork though , Cappaboy Beg ,Gortnacowly , Maughanaclea and another among the other stone circles at Reanascreena .

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary Jun 29, 2012 19:54:25
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tjj wrote:
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.
Well Duloe circle in Cornwall that I was at just two days ago has 8 June!!