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FourWinds F
FourWinds Aug 30, 2004 12:31:43
Replying to suave harv

He did a gig in Cork and indeed wondered around there for a while more. Don't know what the outcome was or if it was more for Megalithic European or for Let Me Speak To The Driver.

I've never really liked this link to the RSCs, nor do I consider that the builders had lost their meaning. Visit enough and they are very powerful structures, despite some being so small. The RSCs were about the sky. The Irish axials about the land.

S suave harv
suave harv Aug 30, 2004 13:20:32
Replying to FourWinds

I agree. If anything, there seems to be more thought given to some of the Irish circles. At Reanascreena every stone is carefully chosen, and the largest is directly opposite the lowest. . and the stones all decrease in size towards it, (Though Burl says they are 'not well graded' in the small circles book??).
Cork has some simply amazing sites, that I think are overlooked. Knocknakilla and Glantane(sp?) are amazing circles with great towering pillars outside. As is Kealkil.
I hope these are all given equal space in the new book, I'm sure most people don't realise just what there is in Ireland, (I didn't!).
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And speaking of the little Burl book. . it says Brodgar's stones are 7ft high on average. . . surely some mistake? They are massive!
. .and Doll Tor circle (Derbyshire) it lists as 23 feet wide. That strikes me as a lot larger than it is . . .