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I spoke to our geologist who came down on the side of weathering.
I can see his point, for example if you took a lovely piece of gritstone like this one http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/27232 and upended it to create a standing stone, the horizontally weathered bedding planes would then become vertical, this would definately help to excellerate the erosion process.

When is the oil going to run out?
Tomorrow!

No, it's twenty or thirty years. Maybe that is tomorrow.

The example of laminar erosion you show doesn't explain how the notches or grooves spiral down the tops of some stones, and cross the bedding planes. It would be handy to find one of these grooved long stones that had been buried accidentally and then to look closely for signs of tooling. But they were always set facing the sky. I know from the Blackstone that if you have anything slightly different then nobody wants to know and will invent ridiculous explanations just to avoid the (simplest) conclusion 'homemade'.