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| I think the Longstone's real - just because of the natural shape of the rock, and the way it fits the ground. It suggests 'fullness' - fertility. It's difficult in the field to know whether a stone has slipped - is slipping - or has been originally paced at that angle. The second, Welsh, stone has certainly been well-worked by iron chisels - I would guess in Victorian times. Whether it is a megalith is a balance of probabilities. I'd suggest 60/40 in favour of an earth religion placement. It's just a guess. This is what I'm up against - http://www.north-yorkshire-moors.freeserve.co.uk/ceremony.htm - but I've just found a small leaning pillar, maybe half of a pair with the other fallen. I'll look further at them. I've got a small fallen slab with clear grass marks showing its original angle and I should - just about - be able to set it on the Solstice - Sunday morning. There's two curricks on the horizon before it and the slab faces diverge slightly to align with them. Easier said than done ! But the vegetation mark indicates an 'arrow in the ground' setting. The night of Solstice eve I should be able to dismantle a replica Viking burial cairn - it may even be in the Knarsdale library at that other website. (The picture got to number 36 in the summer photograph competition !) I could do with some some smokescreen, in the lower valley, if anyone could fancy doing impressions of filmic archaeologists. Just print this map out - http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/image.php?image_id=13019 - and start with the cupmarked rock nearest to the farm named Far House. I know it's a crap map. If you can find that first stone, which was buried until very recently, then there's a cluster of rocks due South, across a field, into the next one, and up a hill a bit. Dr Maria Von Strudel, University of Hamburgh, expert in paleologistics (hear my plea !) The digger's coming for the Wogglestones next. Reply | with quote |  17th June 2003ce 09:16 In reply to: Hi Jimit. (Kammer)4 replies: Hi AtomicMutton (Kammer) Re: Hi Jimit. (jimit) Re: Hi atomic mutton (pebblesfromheaven) George Winn Darley!! (Shestu) |
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