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Re: Rectangular holes in stones
May 31, 2009, 12:05
nigelswift wrote:
Let's face it, a whole culture of standing stones must have been uprooted and is now holding up gates, unrecognised.

Some of the snaffling has been recorded:
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6699/five_kings.html

And it's not confined to standing stones:
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/5722/high_shaws.html

The wedge and feather marks are on loads of rock art panels in Northumberland, Old Bewick and Chatton hillfort being a couple of the best examples. There are other places where the feathering marks have become so heavily eroded that it raises suspicions that the quarrying was a long time ago (i.e. pre-gatepost snaffling). Some around here are undoubtedly roman, whilst others may actually be bronze age. There was quite a thing for hacking chunks of carved outcrop to be re-used as cist covers.
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