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Slaggyford Stones 1

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Slaggyford Stones .

tiompan Sep 16, 2011 09:32:06

Replying to StoneGloves

StoneGloves wrote:

"Your original suggestion was for a minor standstill therefore the minus 3.9 declination a lunar dec i.e. including parallax .If you are talking about solar alignments as in the case of equinoxes then the declination from the stone to the top of Kip Law is minus 4.7 . Even at minus 3.9 it is still 11 days off and 4.7 nearly 2 weeks . Regardless of all that even if the dec was spot on and the stone was a genuine rock art were you really suggesting that there was a case for an intentional alignment ?"

Of course.

Is the " of course " in response to the question about intenionality ?

StoneGloves Sep 16, 2011 13:43:56

Replying to tiompan

"Is the ' of course ' in response to the question about intenionality ?"

Well, it certainly might be worth checking out, on the ground. In spring, rather than autumn, before there are leaves on the trees, to obscure the view.

The Ordnance Survey marks the cairn vaguely on the top of Kip Law but it is a distinct structure. I've never been up there but it is visible for quite a distance - it's shaped like a pork pie and is not at the highest point of the hill, but to the north and west, on a false crest. And there are actually two cairns marked on Kip Law, close to each other, but the northern one is a actually a currick. But then the pork pie-shaped cairns are often marked as curricks on the map, with the best examples being on Tindale Fell.