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Souterrains and cup marks

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fitzcoraldo Sep 18, 2006 21:46:28

Replying to FourWinds

To broaden it out a little. There have been two IA farmsteads excavated in my patch that may have incorportated a cup marked stone into the entrance.
Perhaps the IA equivalent of a lucky horseshoe or a bough of rowan.

FourWinds Sep 18, 2006 21:53:55

Replying to fitzcoraldo

This stone was incorporated into a rath (fortified farmstead).

Hob Sep 18, 2006 21:55:29

Replying to fitzcoraldo

That's all interesting stuff fellas, cheers.

I like the idea that the line between ritual and utilitarian can be blurred. There's at least one example of cup stone in a house up here in Northumberland (not sure of the date), which implies some kind of crossover, whereby the ritual is (literally) at home in a domestic context.

Of course that's assuming that RA has some kind of 'ritual' significance.