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Rhiannon
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Rectangular holes in stones
May 26, 2009, 22:28
I was watching 'Standing with Stones' at the weekend, and in it Mr Soskin was going on about the mysterious long slot holes in the Stones he was looking at. Somewhere or other.
Regrettably I've now sent back the dvd (it was rented) and I can't tell you the details... but I'm sure some of you will know what I'm talking about.

THEN there I am watching something about Hadrian's wall and what should appear but slotted stones - and the explanation that these were 'Lewis Holes'
like this one http://www.flickr.com/photos/vittoriosa/423137849/

for sticking a 'Lewis' in and lifting stones thus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain-linked_Lewis

So how about that. What an ingenious idea. Of course any stonemason would probably recognise the holes immediately. I'm not sure you could do it with anything but metal though could you. So that suggests Not Prehistoric... and so, some kind of implication for whatever the stones Mr Soskin was looking at.
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