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Hob wrote:
Would any of you Bullaun spotting folk be willing to offer an opinion of the bullauniness of this:
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/64676/images/greenlee_lough.html
Which it seems was recently re-located by the intrepid Mr Rockandy.
I remember seeing this when Rockandy posted it first and sayin to meself 'bullaun'. Looking at it again, the right-hand basin is a bit like this http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/53129/images/cairn_x2.html a hole carved by army sappers to erect a flagpole in a fallen cairn orthostat at Loughcrew. The sides of the Greenlee Lough basin look a bit sheer. Most bullaun basins have a gradual, smooth widening towards the top of the basin, as if they were carved in a mortar and pestle fashion rather that a hammering or chiselling.

ryaner wrote:
The sides of the Greenlee Lough basin look a bit sheer. Most bullaun basins have a gradual, smooth widening towards the top of the basin, as if they were carved in a mortar and pestle fashion rather that a hammering or chiselling.
Most are hemi-spherical, but I doubt the non-enhanced-natural ones were totally ground out. Much easier to chisel them out and then grind them.

As for straight sides, don't forget this one - http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/59917/images/glassamucky_mountain.html - which I think is one of the oldest of them all*. And the conical ones in Carlow.

Personally, I'd say it was a bullaun. If it was in Ireland it would definitely be classed as one.


*Just a gut feeling.