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Spaceship mark S
Spaceship mark Jun 16, 2008 13:42:17
Replying to The Eternal

Having seen the Marlborough Downs Pollisher and also the examples in Nantes Museum and Vannes Museum those stones look a lot like each other (apart from scale, but the actual pollishing areas are similar in size). This does not strike me, immediately, as a pollishing stone, as has been said, the marks are very narrow and, from a practical perspective, do not look like axe pollishing grooves.
Which leaves them being either plough marks or some other kind of rock art, something I am much less well versed in...

H Hob
Hob Jun 16, 2008 20:37:17
Replying to Spaceship mark

I can't convince myself they're ploughmarks. If they were, it would seem odd that they vanish on the apex of the stone. Also, can't see any sign of the 'juddering' marks I'd normally associate with a plough being scraped with force over a stone.

The grooves do look more akin to the Welsh arrowstones than to the Fyfield polisher, but the bit below the groves on the Elva stone looks suspiciously flat/smooth.

I reckon it's possible the Fyfield jobbie gives a bit of a false impression of how glassily smooth polissoirs should be, as it's on sarsen, thus less prone to the roughening effects of the weather? What kind of stone are the french polishers on?

Btw, the link TE posted is to a page that's moved on, the original page is now to be found at:
http://www.keswick.u-net.com/80602.htm