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Great Stuff Ken

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StoneGloves wrote:
Yes, excellent photographs. I would suspect the alignment to be a sunrise in the opposite direction, but, looking from the circle outward, perhaps on another day of the year. Then the solar disc would be caught by the two upright stones!
Well, there's a 50/50 chance that you suspect correctly.I was there around the Summer Solstice this year and there's a bloody great mountain in the way. It's just possible that the sun rises out of the bloody great mountain and follows the edge, but it's a long shot. The cloud was too low and there was a lot of mist about last year. I'll be trying again this year.

If you look at this picture:

http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/8750/Boleycarrigeen.htm

You will see that the axis of the circle could just point to the base of Keedean Mountain or there abouts. I'd love this one to be a good'un.

Agree about the pics , excellent stuff ken . I'm a bit puzzled about the alignment though .The stones are ,I believe are graded to the SW ,like many other monuments ,showing a concern for that part of the winter solstice horizon . But taking individual stones across stone circles or pairs of stones is not usually considered an alignment , if so a similar ring of eleven stones would produce 55 possibilities stone to stone and another further smaller number of opposing pairs . It is not something that is usually accepted in arcaheaoastronomy due to that likelihood of finding something significant . Sorry about the negativity ,maybe I have misunderstood or missed something .

The mountain looks like a surge in energy, and also it appears as though the spruce plantation has protected the stones, for the past few years. Griddlestones may be a rendering of girdle stones, remembering those panbaked scones and how their name is both spelt and pronounced.