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Sanctuary S
Sanctuary Feb 25, 2012 19:41:53
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
"Of course there may be some "Stonehenge" style concrete hidden away below the earth. "

There is .
http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=424271

Yes Celia Haddon mentions it here:
http://www.celiahaddon.co.uk/standing%20stones/cornwall.html
Scroll down to Men An Tol.

I'm waiting for a reply back from the Corwall Archaeo Society but I've not read anywhere yet that it has a projecting base to it so it could be secured like a normal standing stone. I think it's an important point in attempting to understand the make-up of the settings.
IF, like they seem to believe today, that it was part of the setting of an actual circle of stones, then one would expect it to be earthfast like the remaining stones, but if not, then why not? That would 'suggest' that it was possibly meant to be moved around the settings...at different times of the year maybe? Just the way I'm thinking and go about things.

M Megalithics
Megalithics Feb 25, 2012 19:07:55
Replying to Sanctuary

Sanctuary wrote:
IF, like they seem to believe today, that it was part of the setting of an actual circle of stones, then one would expect it to be earthfast like the remaining stones, but if not, then why not? That would 'suggest' that it was possibly meant to be moved around the settings...at different times of the year maybe? Just the way I'm thinking and go about things.
We can't be sure that it was part of the original circle, we read one account that regarded it as a porthole entrance stone that had been removed from a chambered cairn and inserted here later. What is certain is that either the ring or the two stones have been moved since 1745. Borlase's plan shows the three upright stones set in an arc (perhaps the circumference of the stone circle?) but the ring is set at 45 degrees to the circumference, not in a radial or tangential position as would normally be expected.

Pre-concrete, assuming the hole was always left unburied, it was probably fairly easy to topple and given the healing legends associated, it has probably been over a few times in the far past.