The Hurlers​…Mapping the Sun

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Sanctuary S
Sanctuary Sep 22, 2013 16:50:20
Replying to thesweetcheat

thesweetcheat wrote:
Great stuff Lubin, thanks for sharing those. Fascinating construction, it sort of reminds me of the spokes at Clava, but otherwise haven't seen anything like that at another stone circle.
It's actually between two circles Alken and was thought to be a 'walkway' or pavement between them, but it's far too rough for that and isn't even quartz stone just ordinary locally sourced granite in keeping with the stones in the circles (confirmed by James Gossop) It finished some 10-12ft from the more southern circle and about 25-30ft from the northern one, so doesn't actually connect them! Thinking again time, but to be fair they were only working from unfinished work only started back in the 1930's.

L Littlestone
Littlestone Sep 23, 2013 18:11:38
Replying to Sanctuary

Sanctuary wrote:
It's actually between two circles Alken and was thought to be a 'walkway' or pavement between them, but it's far too rough for that and isn't even quartz stone just ordinary locally sourced granite in keeping with the stones in the circles (confirmed by James Gossop) It finished some 10-12ft from the more southern circle and about 25-30ft from the northern one, so doesn't actually connect them! Thinking again time, but to be fair they were only working from unfinished work only started back in the 1930's.
As with Roman roads, the upper layer of smaller surface stones may have been displaced (though you’d expect there would still be some around). More perplexing, actually, is the shortness of the path and the way it ends so abruptly and in such a precise way. Could that indicate that the path lead to a (much) later building with perhaps a step at the end. Maybe even a path between two buildings...