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Kidding!
So what did u make of the Timoney Stones? Real or folly?

bawn79 wrote:
Kidding!
So what did u make of the Timoney Stones? Real or folly?
Just visiting my ancestors!

I don't know really. I have a theory that says the bulk of them are genuine, with some mischievous loon muddying the waters a couple of hundred years later. There's one field that looks as if it just rained stones one day! I'm writing a short blog about my experience there that'll probably just add to the confusion. I wonder why the powers that be don't just excavate some of them. Surely there'd be some carbon-dating evidence.

Many of the settings have a feel of the genuine about them - others don't. I think quite a few of them are the real thing.

Whoever did them or added to them knew a thing or two: stones rows with 90 degree terminals (like in the south of England), four posters with one stone a different height to the rest, male & female pairs and such like.