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FourWinds Jan 6, 2010 12:12:26
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
CianMcLiam wrote:
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?)
Sorry Ken ,I should have read the wee note about the axial stone , Burl dosen't describe it as such though . Even more like like Drombeg in that they are the only solstice aligned ASC 's examples afaik .Did you get a bearing between the pillars and stone ?
Due to damage it's hard to tell if there's an axial stone as such, but viewing from the centre through the portal stones or through the portal stones across the centre is NE/SW respectively.

Don't worry about bearings. It's observation that counts. As I mentioned, Keedean Mountain could obscure the NE alignment, but the SW is wide open.

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tiompan Jan 6, 2010 13:05:50
Replying to FourWinds

FourWinds wrote:
tiompan wrote:
CianMcLiam wrote:
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?)
Sorry Ken ,I should have read the wee note about the axial stone , Burl dosen't describe it as such though . Even more like like Drombeg in that they are the only solstice aligned ASC 's examples afaik .Did you get a bearing between the pillars and stone ?
Due to damage it's hard to tell if there's an axial stone as such, but viewing from the centre through the portal stones or through the portal stones across the centre is NE/SW respectively.

Don't worry about bearings. It's observation that counts. As I mentioned, Keedean Mountain could obscure the NE alignment, but the SW is wide open.

Accurate bearings are interesting in their own right , obviously observation is paramount but sometimes there are other considerations .Unlikely the alignment works both ways with such different horizons .