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Sounds about right. The local archeology guys tend towrds it being natural/etc but with the question over one of the stones. It may not be local - it hasn't been checked out. If it is local it looks pretty cut and dried as the only 'evidence' that it isn't is that stone. Vice versa if it is not a local stone. Although I live close I havn't visited the site as my efforts have been elsewhere. Howver I hope to change that soon and get some high definition digital photo's of the stone in question.
What concerns me about all this is that the information that I found is readily available. Perhaps other members should take a cautionary pause. How many sites are there listed here that are accepted by members but no one has actually asked the question of authenticity? Perhaps new entries ought to have an authenticity note added?

bergman wrote:
Sounds about right. The local archeology guys tend towrds it being natural/etc but with the question over one of the stones.
Sorry but this is misleading. This site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument number 396. The local EH monuments inspector accepts that this is a genuine ancient monument - I know her quite well - and has been responsible for putting together a project for excavation work here in connection with a previous attempt to get it re-erected. The present pile of stones there does include some fields clearance but this is undoubtedly a genuine monument. It was after all recorded by William Borlase when it was still standing, before one of the upright stones fell in 1842.

It's real and it deserves to be treated as such. The "local archaeology guys" absolutely do NOT "tend towrds it being natural/etc".

Andy Norfolk