Cup Markings daan south... | Forum — The Modern Antiquarian

Paulus Aug 3, 2004 20:57:59

Ey up Hob!

Good to see your post about the cup-marked stone on Fyfield Down still being there. Experience tends to show that where there's one of the little blighters, another one's usually hiding close by... Us primitive Northern folk tend to get to a selected region, stand about 20 yards apart from each other, then walk in straight lines (depending on how many pubs we've been to beforehand) until we find a stone. Might be worth someone's while to give it a go - or has the land been heavily farmed/worked there? Mind you, memory tells me that them there Soiuthern land-owners tend to be a bit more miserable than their Northern compatriots, screaming with great force that well-known mantra, "Gerroffthatbloodyfield."

Anyway Hob - tis good to read your post...

Hob Aug 4, 2004 00:13:41

Replying to Paulus

Y'areet Paulus,

Cheers mon, it was a good tip off.

I was geared up for a week of searching for the buggers, but it turns out they are known of by some of te more erudite folk down there, but due to the incredible density of megaliths nearby, few people seem to hike up to Fyfield.

I was tickled pink to see them, it set me off on a total 'Sarsen texture' tangent for the rest of the week. It's well strange stuff, I reckon there are other stones with artficial markings, but they're so similar to natural features, no one would go out on a limb and claim them to be artificial, proper threshold phenomena that they are. The Fyfield ones are a bit more obvious due to the alignments of the groups, and they are almost perfectly circular, unike the natural pits.

I'll post the couple of pics I got, I think some of the others who were there during the day may have some pics too.

FourWinds Aug 4, 2004 07:27:44

Replying to Paulus

Lovely to see pics. Should it be a sub site of the Greywethers though?

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/256

Hob Aug 4, 2004 13:03:02

Replying to Paulus

Eyup Goff, did the daylight pics of the cups come out as well as the horseshoe?
If so, put your fancy phone/tricorder down for a second and let's see them ;)

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