Heh, 38 years of waiting? Ha.
Which particular sites are you talking about? Just Meini Hirion? Be a bit more precise for your own sake! What can you say of the Anglesey farmers' supposedly fierce reputation? Any bad experience? Dribble's fine only when there's some hidden relevance! And I never use XXX to sign after me name. How you must be cringing at not being able to use people's identities on this site, hah! Find my password and I will give you the refund myself! There's something for you to do in your eternally spare time next week.
Now, the obsessive me and the obsessive you are both wondering...'Yet on my travels round the Island i seemed to be coming across standing stone after standing stone, that are not mentioned in the book.. Are these stones actual standing stones and how the hell can you tell?' - I know that feeling, in stone-rich areas the traveller's bound to be overwhelmed and that's why the ancients'selected' that particular land for their mythicscape. If you check the map of any country you will notice that the ancients chose the granite-rich areas for their monuments, so once you arrive in one of those places a huge stone landscape opens up and enormous amounts of standing stones appear.
The question 'which ones are real ones?' is irrelevant when you relate your position in the ancient's mindscape - some of these are even medieval boundary markers therefore inessential, and that's why *you* become the primal actor in a new virtual landscape - position yourself on a spot and start visioning sites in relation to the landscape features. Usually, a neolithic/bronze standing stone is positioned there for a purpose. Many standing stones in Wales may be only markers, often at roadsides. Go for the huge phallic metaphor in the middle of the land, often placed in a strategic position above the rest of the land and not *entirely* visible or accessible, as if it made itself sacred and mysterious until, once found, it becomes powerful and glorious. And they are also sometimes 'prepared', with one side or more polished or varied in rough fashion, but always without altering the sacred natural aspect of the stone. If the standing stone is TOO polished, then it's bound to be medieval or christian. If it shows no signs of human intervention, it is most probably a natural boulder. Even then, where-ever there are massive concentrations of natural stone in a 'bunch' then it is quite basically the same 'bunch' that the ancients saw - if you are mystified and inspired by this vision then be sure this might be an ancient gorsedd - it didn't go unnoticed to them as it didn't go unnoticed to you.
The reason why most of the stones you saw are not in the antiquarian is because most of them may only be minor stones, unknown or later additions. But yes, I was a bit let down too when I saw the Mod Ant did not include ALL the known sites, at least in an annexus. On second thoughts, after seeing your moniker round these parts again...weren't you the one who was creating their own website or something? You are not very consistent, doodyo!
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