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Re: Tri-radial windbreaks?
Dec 22, 2005, 00:39
As I remember it, the original mention of tri-radials being sheepfolds was based on the premise that they were not prehistoric, as Northumberland has a fair number of four limbed sheepfolds dating back a few hundred years, so the suggestion was made that they may be the remains of three-limbed sheepfolds.

As far as I know, the hills those cairns are one were not particularly exposed to the elements at the time the burials were placed in the cairns.

There's also the possibility that these structures represent a round cairn that has been re-arranged, but I think the excavated ones have shown that they are burial structures. I vaguely recall menton of them being aligned to stuff in the sky too. So even if they were windbreaks, it would seem they are ritual windbreaks (for sheltering from ritual wind?).
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