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tiompan wrote:
... there were other markings done on rocks that tend not to get recognised.
I hate those category defying possibles. I've got a thing about fire reddened shallow bowls. There's also a few places near Stonelifter's stomping grounds which I'd hate to have him spot. He'd be very perplexed as to how the clams had managed to open in the way that would leave such weird marks.

StoneLifter wrote:
Maybe the hole was made to take a pole for a banner - is that Rock Art ?
There's a not-cup right next to some CnRs at Dod Law fort which fits that description:
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/31577
It's the thing with the feather in it, and is about 4 inched deep. I'm not sure how drilled it is/was, but it'd hold a banner pole no bother.

There's one bloke that's visited a lot of bullauns in Gottland. His theory is that bullauns (and they're always single in Gottland) were for holding the bases of tree trunks that formed the shafts of prehistoric windmills.

I don't think they were used to hold poles - I'm just suggesting that they could be ...

The Deadlaw example is a part of the design but has been excluded, wilfully, by modern interpreters. With a ruler you'd find that it was two megalithic inches across. The nearest to a handle on an explanation is perhaps bound up with that dimension. Somehow.