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Great Stuff Ken

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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 two tall stones in the foreground are the portals as far as I'm aware, they are (by far) the tallest and the rest are graded down to the axial, and Burl mentions that the low bank surrounding the circle has a gap here too. If Burl is correct then we have a standard axial stone circle with the axis through the portals over the axial stone indicating mid-winter. Pretty much a standard of the type (like Drombeg?)