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StoneLifter S
StoneLifter Sep 10, 2006 20:52:42
Replying to Hob

It must be pretty rare that someone splitting a rock, with steel wedges, would go to the bother of starting to split it, by bashing deep scars into it, and then just abandons it before the simplest part - of actually splitting the rock. What is more interesting are the categories to which these - boatshaped ? - 'cupmarks' can be assigned. Bisymmetrical, Assymmetrical and ?

F FourWinds
FourWinds Sep 10, 2006 20:54:59
Replying to StoneLifter

StoneLifter wrote:
It must be pretty rare that someone splitting a rock, with steel wedges, would go to the bother of starting to split it, by bashing deep scars into it, and then just abandons it before the simplest part - of actually splitting the rock.
It would be very odd behaviour indeed. It's also odd that they occur at so many Wicklow Mountain sites.

R Rockrich
Rockrich Sep 10, 2006 21:23:02
Replying to StoneLifter

Theres bundles of such stones about SL, several spring to mind on Ilkley Moor, Barningham Moor, Holgate (S of Barningham), Low Crags, Lordenshaw (I think), Old Bewick & Middleton Moor.

Heres a few that also have RA on:

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/28332

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/49591

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/41209

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