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Re: Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 22, 2010, 14:07
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Thanks for the replies everyone, i've e-mailed a few pics to the local archaeo.
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Re: Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 22, 2010, 14:09
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StoneGloves wrote: I've a very good idea what it is - but I don't want jumping on for suggesting what I think it may have been - so, for now, I'll just post some words from a song. "Roll away the stone, roll away the stone, won't you roll away the stone, (continues)."
Come on, don't be so elusive, spit it out man. ; )
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Re: Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 22, 2010, 14:10
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StoneGloves wrote: If there were three of you there then you are each co-finders.
Fine by me, i just want to know what it is.
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Re: Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 22, 2010, 15:55
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http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo226/Aveburywhs/11022010273.jpg
It's a mans glove.
:o)
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Edited Feb 22, 2010, 17:15
Re: Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 22, 2010, 16:54
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StoneGloves wrote: I've a very good idea what it is - but I don't want jumping on for suggesting what I think it may have been - so, for now, I'll just post some words from a song. "Roll away the stone, roll away the stone, won't you roll away the stone, (continues)."
Ah a new game! A couple of months ago I bought 'Sigh No More' by Mumford & Sons (yes, I do still have CDS)
Roll Away Your Stone
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Re: Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 22, 2010, 17:07
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It's commonly called a bung. it's for a long barrow that has now been destroyed or lost. If you check the Devil's Ring and Finger (I think that's what they're called) you'll find that the large holed stone was supposed to be the closing panel of a chambered tomb, of some kind, that had been removed and re-erected. Men-an-Tol is another one. Most of the similar holed stones have been destroyed by puritans - leaving the bungs scattered about the landscape for people to find. You'll be unlikely to find an archaeologist that accepts this blunt explanation and, I would guess, will come back with some crazy grindstone shit. The hard bit would be finding a holed stone that the rock closes.
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Re: Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 22, 2010, 17:09
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I thought about that Tjj then this entered my head. Mott the Hoople maybe,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oBYWgMNLIc
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tjj
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Re: Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 22, 2010, 17:12
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drewbhoy wrote:
Of course, I think you win - you muso! Well done.
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Re: Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 22, 2010, 17:19
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StoneGloves wrote: It's commonly called a bung. it's for a long barrow that has now been destroyed or lost. If you check the Devil's Ring and Finger (I think that's what they're called) you'll find that the large holed stone was supposed to be the closing panel of a chambered tomb, of some kind, that had been removed and re-erected. Men-an-Tol is another one. Most of the similar holed stones have been destroyed by puritans - leaving the bungs scattered about the landscape for people to find. You'll be unlikely to find an archaeologist that accepts this blunt explanation and, I would guess, will come back with some crazy grindstone shit. The hard bit would be finding a holed stone that the rock closes.
Interesting theory, though i know of no recorded longbarrows or holed stones in the immediate area, we found it about 30 metres from the circle, there is the Reddicar long cist several hundred metres away but that's it but for a few simple cairns, that i know of anyway.
http://pecsaetan.weebly.com/reddicar-clough-long-cist.html
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Edited Feb 22, 2010, 17:25
Re: Any idea what this could be. ?
Feb 22, 2010, 17:25
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fitzcoraldo wrote: Looks a bit liked a roughed-out rotary quern stone.
I'll go along with that as there are a few on Dartmoor that look like the one in the photo. All the millstones I have seen have holes in them.
Peace , Lubin
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