Posted on 10/27/2025 8:22:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
I wonder if the vertical cuts in those stones was uniformed style, or served some other purpose. Maybe they helped with handling those big babies.
They’ve stood there a long time, millennia of rainfall, maybe it’s just erosion of softer mineral features.
Are there mineral concentrations at the sides and below the monuments? It is mind boggling how many avenues of thought are produced here, let alone those queries directly related to the monuments.
Yup. For that matter, the erosion may have been present when the stones were quarried, or, they weren’t quarried, just prospected and moved. We may be looking at the preliterate advert for a Neolithic construction, moving, or demolition company. 🚚
I traveled in yorkshire in the late 90’s. I had read about this, but back then without the OS map showing locations for these stones, you weren’t finding them and even then it was tricky. I failed to find them.
other stone circles/monuments of exceptional interest are castle rigg (cumbria), long meg and daughters (I think near castle rigg), Brodgar and stenness (orkney), callinash (lewis).
Orkney in general was the single greatest concentration of notable stone-age archaeology sites as well as a first-class countryside/island vacation destination I found in the UK. I don’t doubt there are others (thinking devon/cornwall and wales)
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