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gjrk Apr 11, 2009 21:07:08

I've never come across this before. Looks to be a standard NE-SW stone pair except the northern stone is wider than it is high.

If it was originally set this way, I'm just wondering if the intention might have been to keep it below the horizon line to the NE, for a viewer at the SW side. Or perhaps, simply establishing direction was in this case more important than "standing" the stone?

T tiompan
tiompan Apr 11, 2009 21:18:19
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gjrk wrote:
I've never come across this before. Looks to be a standard NE-SW stone pair except the northern stone is wider than it is high.

If it was originally set this way, I'm just wondering if the intention might have been to keep it below the horizon line to the NE, for a viewer at the SW side. Or perhaps, simply establishing direction was in this case more important than "standing" the stone?

Not quite the same but worth mentioning that Perthshire pairs , which tend to be E-W , the most easterly or northerly is more rounded and the other more pillar like . It's not 100% but not far off .

George

B bawn79
bawn79 Apr 13, 2009 21:32:28
Replying to gjrk

Could it be the remains of a stone circle, the "horizontal" stone looks a bit like it have been.
Just brainstorming.