Which is the longest/largest recumbent stone in the UK?

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Evergreen Dazed Feb 17, 2017 17:23:52
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
thesweetcheat wrote:
As well as RSC, there are single recumbents in various places, but often there's uncertainty about whether they are anything other than natural. With no other stones needed, when does a big lying-down stone become a prehistoric monument?

Eg http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/13035/cefnyrhenriw_recumbent_stone.html

That's what I thought the thread was about , big recumbent stones in the UK ,and not just RSC / ASCs .
If that is the case how about the lintel Stonehenge 156?
Bit of a whopper, to use a technical term.

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tiompan Feb 17, 2017 17:36:55
Replying to Evergreen Dazed

Evergreen Dazed wrote:
tiompan wrote:
thesweetcheat wrote:
As well as RSC, there are single recumbents in various places, but often there's uncertainty about whether they are anything other than natural. With no other stones needed, when does a big lying-down stone become a prehistoric monument?

Eg http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/13035/cefnyrhenriw_recumbent_stone.html

That's what I thought the thread was about , big recumbent stones in the UK ,and not just RSC / ASCs .
If that is the case how about the lintel Stonehenge 156?
Bit of a whopper, to use a technical term.
The Narnian boulders in the Arrochar alps are a fair size , can't think of anything bigger in the grander hills to the north .

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nigelswift Feb 17, 2017 17:47:51
Replying to Evergreen Dazed

Evergreen Dazed wrote:
If that is the case how about the lintel Stonehenge 156?
I demand a new classification. Recently recumbent. In which case it wins.