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FourWinds May 28, 2007 06:17:51
Replying to tiompan

Tricky one. I have figures for many of them, but most seem to have been disturbed prior to excavation (kinda ironic really). A lot of the Irish and Welsh ones have very little in the way of remains, but this is usually attributed to acid soils and/or treasure hunters (in the 1800s onwards).

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tiompan May 28, 2007 09:53:23
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FourWinds wrote:
Tricky one. I have figures for many of them, but most seem to have been disturbed prior to excavation (kinda ironic really). A lot of the Irish and Welsh ones have very little in the way of remains, but this is usually attributed to acid soils and/or treasure hunters (in the 1800s onwards).
No covering , no contemporary remains , it is a table after all . There does seem to be a shift away from viewing portal dolmens as "tombs" e.g. Bradley , Richards & Whittle . The fact that the capstone , in some cases , came from the site itself is interesting . Whittle described them as "stones tha float in the sky" .