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megalith6 Nov 5, 2007 05:28:47
Replying to Kammer

Kammer wrote:
This looks a lot like a cross shaft...

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/254

Are there any grounds to think that it's prehistoric?

K x

would have thought a cross shaft should be regular of even tapering as it ascends -

http://z.about.com/d/goireland/1/0/b/6/-/-/anatomy_of_a_high_cross.jpg

this stone appears to be neither?

Ric

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megalith6 Nov 5, 2007 05:30:45
Replying to megalith6

i mean it seems to actually get wider as it gets taller - this is generally the opposite of what you would expect of a cross shaft?

R

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