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FourWinds wrote:
CianMcLiam wrote:
Absolutely, that's incredible to see it just sitting there in a wall!
The only bit I know of in an Irish wall - http://www.megalithomania.com/show/site/894
Unless you count this one that I found a while back - http://www.megalithomania.com/show/site/1603

I'd go quarrying there FW.

If you call those cupmarks (and they're on the deep side for cups) then they are canoe-shaped cupmarks. Even allowing for a couple of hundred years erosion they are not a splintered, jagged, and just generally nasty, as you'd expect 'quarrymen's marks' to be. I know you think the Megalithic Inch is the invention of fairies - despite its continued use in China, Asia and wherever acupuncture is practised - but it is a simple way of pseudo-verifying these things.

I'm tempted to post an image of what quarrymen's marks really look like. I've posted it before. And, with the canoe-shaped cupmarks there's always the open question of 'if they went to all that trouble to mark the stone why did they then abandon it' ?