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FourWinds
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Re: "standing stone fences"
Jun 04, 2004, 10:42
I do. At the Beaghmore complex in Tyrone Bronze Age field walls were found to run beneath surface. The stone circle were probably made from wall material.

It is assumed that the area was once good farming land and as the weather and conditions worsened they started building circles to try and placate the gods.

There is an alternative theory (mine) that the fields were abandoned and a later people came and built the circles to honour the mysterious builders of the abandoned field systems.

The walls at Beaghmore are only 30cm above the ground now.

There is also 120 acres of field walls dating back to around 2500 bce at the Ceide Fields in Mayo.
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