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I think the Longstone's real - just because of the natural shape of the rock, and the way it fits the ground. It suggests 'fullness' - fertility.

It's difficult in the field to know whether a stone has slipped - is slipping - or has been originally paced at that angle.

The second, Welsh, stone has certainly been well-worked by iron chisels - I would guess in Victorian times. Whether it is a megalith is a balance of probabilities. I'd suggest 60/40 in favour of an earth religion placement. It's just a guess.

This is what I'm up against -

http://www.north-yorkshire-moors.freeserve.co.uk/ceremony.htm

- but I've just found a small leaning pillar, maybe half of a pair with the other fallen. I'll look further at them. I've got a small fallen slab with clear grass marks showing its original angle and I should - just about - be able to set it on the Solstice - Sunday morning. There's two curricks on the horizon before it and the slab faces diverge slightly to align with them. Easier said than done ! But the vegetation mark indicates an 'arrow in the ground' setting.

The night of Solstice eve I should be able to dismantle a replica Viking burial cairn - it may even be in the Knarsdale library at that other website. (The picture got to number 36 in the summer photograph competition !)

I could do with some some smokescreen, in the lower valley, if anyone could fancy doing impressions of filmic archaeologists. Just print this map out -

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/image.php?image_id=13019 -

and start with the cupmarked rock nearest to the farm named Far House. I know it's a crap map. If you can find that first stone, which was buried until very recently, then there's a cluster of rocks due South, across a field, into the next one, and up a hill a bit. Dr Maria Von Strudel, University of Hamburgh, expert in paleologistics (hear my plea !)

The digger's coming for the Wogglestones next.

> I think the Longstone's real...

Fair enough AtomicMutton, I've never visited the site.

> The second, Welsh, stone has certainly been well-worked by
> iron chisels - I would guess in Victorian times.

Not sure about that. It's thought to be Medieval. Presumably it would
be in a better state if it were a mere 150 years old.

> Whether it is a megalith is a balance of probabilities.

Who knows. The problem is that we can't assume that Croes Faen
<I>was</I> a megalith unless there's some sort of evidence.

> ...but I've just found a small leaning pillar, maybe half of a pair
> with the other fallen.

>... just about - be able to set it on the Solstice - Sunday morning.

Isn't the Solstice on Saturday? Am I correct in thinking that you
plan to move this stone? If I am, why would you want to do that?

> The night of Solstice eve I should be able to dismantle a replica
> Viking burial cairn...

Again, why?

Kammer x

Hi, AM (Great monica but don't get peps on this site talking about sheep!). Re stone, it didn't have the "feel" of being mediaeval. There were no obvious signs of it being worked apart from the obvious crosses and perhaps the top. In my field notes I mention that perhaps the local stone naturally cleaves into this sort of shape. There's no church nearby and the crossroads seen pretty ordinary to me. The stone doesn't command any particular heights, the ground just rises gently to the W. and a little more steeply to a stream valley on the E.
This area of Devon is a bit of a desert for TMA sites.

Hi AM
I smell a sheep
Are you any relation to the one with Blue Gloves?
Come on out.......

.o0O0o.

Wow!! Thanks for the Link!! I Know you peeps get sick of me talking about my kin..... "The Megalith was provided by a local land owner, George Winn Darley". Danby High Moor is this site in Devon? Do you know if this George dude loves Megaliths??