Re: Rock Art in walls | Forum — The Modern Antiquarian

FourWinds Feb 26, 2007 17:59:29

Replying to Rockrich

Rockrich wrote:

I'd go quarrying there FW.

And you'd (probably) be wrong :-) They're very common throughout County Wicklow sites

http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/116

http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/55

http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/63

http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/6480 (these ones are old enough to have folklore about them)

http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/2427

They are far too evenly spaced and of equal size for them to be quarrying marks. And, as stonelifter says. why go to all that (very precise) trouble and not break the stone?

This one makes no sense at all - http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/57 - Why that pattern of marks to break a stone?

Paulus Feb 26, 2007 19:47:13

Replying to FourWinds

No - RockRich is right I'm afraid. Half of them are quarry or chisel-marks. Sorry.

Hob Feb 26, 2007 20:06:04

Replying to FourWinds

Pure random speculation, but if:
http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/57
is sandstone, could it be that it was marked out to make a rectagular trough, but then split in half before the trough was started to be hollowed out? It sort of looks like there are marks along the bottom edge of the stone that could be the same as the ones on the upper part, but snapped off. Overall they'd make a vague rectangle.

Edit
Nah, on a longer look, the stone is totally the wrong shape for that. I'm talking out of the wrong end of my GI tract.