FourWinds wrote:
fitzcoraldo wrote:
I was hoping to avoid getting down to specific cases and was trying to keep things tried to keep things on a general level but since you ask.
No chance of that :-)
To prove that they can be old, here's one incorporated into a wedge tomb - http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/2545
Oh well it was a noble idea ( ;
I guess we need to define what a bullaun is or more importantly isn't.
There are many examples from both our islands and abroad of folk incorporting unusual stones into their monuments. Your newgrove example is undoubtably a bowl shaped depression but is it a bullaun? Does the term mean any bowel-like depression or does it have a more specific meaning?
for example, to me, this is just a river worn stone
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/56543/glendasan_river.html
If it classed as a bullaun then I can you give dozens and dozens of examples.
cheers
fitz
