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harestonesdown Jan 29, 2014 01:08:15

"We know that some stones were selected for their distinctive appearances (the stone at the entrance to the Stoney Littleton long barrow in Somerset for example"

Proof ? Or withdraw your utterly ridiculous statement.

http://theheritagetrust.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/stones-of-distinction/

R Rhiannon
Rhiannon Jan 29, 2014 08:22:43
Replying to harestonesdown

ooh you wouldn't like to watch Neil Oliver's latest series. You'd be shouting 'withdraw your utterly ridiculous statement' twice a minute.

N nigelswift
nigelswift Jan 29, 2014 08:48:46
Replying to harestonesdown

I have zero reason to spring to the defence of the Heritage Trust but to say "We know that some stones were selected for their distinctive appearances" is "a ridiculous statement" is completely unfair.

Nobody "knows" anything but there's enough evidence to say it may well be true and most people would probably think it was.

Alien landing strips are ridiculous, whereas this is just shorthand for "there is strong circumstantial evidence that". Anyway, come to think of it it IS true. Duloe.

T tjj
tjj Jan 29, 2014 10:00:30
Replying to harestonesdown

harestonesdown wrote:
"We know that some stones were selected for their distinctive appearances (the stone at the entrance to the Stoney Littleton long barrow in Somerset for example"

Proof ? Or withdraw your utterly ridiculous statement.

http://theheritagetrust.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/stones-of-distinction/

I've just had a quick look at the link - the light on the Cove stone does give that feature a smooth almost 'millstone' appearance. I've heard it suggested that because of the size of the Cove Stones (there is as much below the ground as above) they may have already been in their present position when they were raised. A smooth area and indentation on any sarsen was probably caused by water, I have seen quite few local stones that have these features. I have also seen ammonite fossils placed in the walls of buildings and they are almost certainly chosen for their rarity, as perhaps they were back in Neolithic times along with white quartz and stones with pre-existing rock art (Long Meg) etc.

T thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jan 29, 2014 13:06:12
Replying to harestonesdown

Balance of probability, the stone at Stoney Littleton was more likely than not chosen because it had a whopping great big ammonite it it. Even if it was "chosen" for this reason, once it had been chosen, it was placed in the structure in such a way as to show the ammonite off, right by the entrance. True that we don't categorically "know" it was deliberately chosen, but seems far more likely than not, doesn't it? You can't exactly fail to notice it and neither could the builders.

As Rhiannon says, far more ridiculous assertions than that get passed off as fact in the wonderful world of megalithic ponderings!

N nigelswift
nigelswift Jan 29, 2014 14:29:59
Replying to harestonesdown

What I want to know is whether the 2 massive ammonites on each side of entrance to the Lyme Regis public toilets in the fifties were there by chance or design. ;)