=
×

Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

Head To Head
Log In
Register
The Modern Antiquarian Forum »
Kirkclaugh »
Rock Art in walls
Log In to post a reply
115 messages
Topic View: Flat | Threaded
FourWinds
FourWinds
10943 posts

Re: Rock Art in walls
Feb 26, 2007, 17:59
Rockrich wrote:
I'd go quarrying there FW.


And you'd (probably) be wrong :-) They're very common throughout County Wicklow sites

http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/116

http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/55

http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/63

http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/6480 (these ones are old enough to have folklore about them)

http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/2427

They are far too evenly spaced and of equal size for them to be quarrying marks. And, as stonelifter says. why go to all that (very precise) trouble and not break the stone?

This one makes no sense at all - http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/57 - Why that pattern of marks to break a stone?
In reply to:
Re: Rock Art in walls (Rockrich)		 Replies:
Re: Rock Art in walls (Paulus)
Re: Rock Art in walls (Hob)
Topic Outline:
The Modern Antiquarian Forum Index