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tiompan Jul 4, 2007 10:28:46
Replying to Hob

Hob wrote:
Oho, whilst you might get a shallow cup out of granite or sarsen using a stone tool, I reckon it'd be very time consuming to get a tightly defined groove. Not impossible, but it would take a long while. Making a bullaun sized cup to serve as part of a trilithon is one thing, belting a shallow cup on a recumbent is another, but neither of these would get you the kind of marks shown on the pics Slumpy has posted. That's my take on it anyway.
I don't think they are man made though .

S slumpystones
slumpystones Jul 4, 2007 10:48:01
Replying to tiompan

I'm going back in a few hours, hopefully the light will be better, although it is in a narrow little valley with a dense tree canopy so I dunno til I get there.

Or should I forego that and nip off to have a look at the other one?

H Hob
Hob Jul 4, 2007 10:52:38
Replying to tiompan

I still can't make my mind up.

I remember one of the stones in the SE inner circle at Avebury that has a mangrove root pattern that looks very CnRish, but on the other hand the 'ring' on Slumpy's stone looks too full-on circular. Slumpy must have stared at a few mangrove root casts in his searches and he's discounted that, and part of me really wants them to be artificial and prehistoric, as it would be nice to have a thing that showed there may be some link between natural holes, as found in sarsen, and CnR style RA such as we get up north. But then just when I'm thinking that, I get cynical again due to the definitely natural linear striations. They seem to be similar in depth/texture etc to the 'ring'.

I'm going to get my fence cushioned so I will be able to sit on it in greater comfort.