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Horsedrawn Apr 21, 2011 08:52:03
Replying to tiompan

I am indeed not talking complex rock art. The last thing I expected was to find 'carvings', and I am not by any means certain that they are really there. As to the rest I can only apologise for my own inadequacy in not describing things well enough to suit some. I would add that the photographer, a professional and a good friend, is not a scholar of the Neolithic, nor the Optical Dynamics of ancient sites, and he will forgive me for stating that his enthusiasm for the subject leads him to make comments of a sweeping nature. Disagreement and argument is inevitable with a subject such as this, but I have to say I'm not crazy about some of the debate so far. However I take full responsibility for any confusion or misunderstanding that has arisen. I have been sitting on this for 12 years and just recently begun to share it, so it could be said I know not what i'm doing.
I welcome this debate, and on a personal level have to say i'm chuffed to bits with the way its going, and that is the last message of a personal nature you will get from me. The 'carving' in the centre of the cut away 'quadrant' on the outside of Stone 5, (as no archeology has been done here I have taken the liberty of numbering them on my own plan) is barely visible, and no conclusion has been drawn, but it looks like a shield. I will post some photographs ASAP.
These 'carvings', I have to add, are recent discoveries and bear no relation (how could they?) to the astronomical study.

David Kane

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stonefree Apr 21, 2011 10:07:18
Replying to Horsedrawn

I concur. I am an enthusiatic, passionate, intuitive and open-minded explorer of the unknown, but rather ignorant in matters of astronomy, archaeology and the neolithic era. However, I do believe there to be an excessive amount of doggedly sticking to the nomenclature of 'tombs' when there seems to be no evidence whatsoever to support such a description other than a vague similarity to other 'tombs'. Likewise the claims of this structure having been either covered or constructed using a mound or cairn, either to make the tomb claims sound more feasible or to facilitate positioning of the capstone and orthostats.

I strongly suspect that before too long we will be able to conduct the many different and specialised investigations required to reveal some of the truth, whatever that may be. In the meantime I think it would be most helpful for us all to acknowledge that we know very little about it so that we can proceed without prejudicial hinderances.