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Chamber pillar a fossil tree trunk?

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sleeptowin Oct 12, 2009 17:02:03

Replying to Michael Bott

me and my girlfreind went to view this while in Anglesey last week, and while it does look like it is wood on the front, the back of the pillar doesnt . The cut marks do look man made, but when you look around in there a lot of the stone inside the chamber looks the same, with cut marks and wood grain.

i took some close up pictures but i havent got around to sorting them out yet.

Squid Tempest Oct 12, 2009 17:14:00

Replying to sleeptowin

Yeah, we went there in July and I thought the same. There is a stone at the entrance that has the same striated, bark-like texture, but it is far from tree-shaped. Still, that doesn't remove the possibility that it was placed the because it looked like a tree trunk.

Rupert Soskin Oct 12, 2009 19:53:56

Replying to sleeptowin

The differences are very subtle and certainly could be why they have been missed before or that I am wrong (if you see what I mean).
If you look around the vicinity of BCD there are a lot of rocks with these 'cut marks' some of them still have their inclusions where calcite crystals have formed. Woody textures also often appear in a variety of rocks.
The main reasons I think the pillar is different are that the 'cuts' are very untidy for this type of crystal inclusion, and the different woody textures (of bark and exposed grain) appear on all sides. They couldn't have been cut and a natural cylindrical pillar with those textures would be even more extraordinary.

I hope that makes some kind of sense. Trying to avoid paragraphs of rambling after a few glasses of red