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Forum: Stones Forum
Moderated by : Andy B , TimPrevett , coldrum , Klingon , MickM , TheCaptain , bat400 , davidmorgan , Runemage , SolarMegalith , sem
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stollentroll
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from Rostock, Germany
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|  New Message Posted!2005-11-08 17:11
There is a natural dolmen near Berdorf, Luxemburg, used as a grave for a man and a child 4700 years ago:
Berdorf
Thomas
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Anonymous
User not Registered | New Message Posted!2005-11-07 15:35
I came across some curious 'proto dolmens in Sardinia. These were just a few metres from 'the genuine item'
http://fitzcoraldo6214.fotopic.net/c665656.html
cheers
fitz
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Anonymous
User not Registered | New Message Posted!2005-11-07 14:42
glacial erractic?
those stones left behind after the receding ice, etc.
elderford,
hola sem, what's the name of the grid ref you gave for the upper tawe site?
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TheCaptain
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| New Message Posted!2005-11-05 10:50
Theres a couple I found recently in France. Here's one in Normandy http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6333552 which I have got onto the portal.
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Anonymous
User not Registered | New Message Posted!2005-11-05 10:00
you should read this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415221501/qid=1131184735/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl/026-6949996-1285240
and this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1872883672/qid=1131184811/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_0_4/026-6949996-1285240
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TimPrevett
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| New Message Posted!2005-11-04 21:22
In Staffordshire, not too far away from me you have The Bawd Stone, which if you take a look probably fits your wishes very well.
Cheers
Tim
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sem
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from Bridgend,S.Wales
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| New Message Posted!2005-11-02 20:42
There is possibly one in the upper Tawe Valley in S.Wales at OS ref SN84962144. It is not mentioned on any existing monument site and consists of two uprights (one fallen) and a fallen capstone. The one end of the capstone is "earthfast."
There is also an outlying stone to this at SN85142122 whose long edge points directly at it.
I have wondered for a long time whether this is natural or manmade.
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Anonymous
User not Registered | New Message Posted!2005-11-02 19:20
Yes, like that stone. By 'Natural Dolmens' I mean naturally ocurring rock outcrops etc which look a bit like a portal dolmen or the like. Large glacial boulders which ballence on top of other stones for example, or 'table like' outcrops. Anything which bears resemblance to a constructed dolmen, but isn't. I don't know how many we have in England, but apparently you find them dotted all along the atlantic coast, in similar patterns to the dolmen distribution...
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DavidRaven
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| New Message Posted!2005-11-02 18:45
Do you mean like this curious stone?.
As it says in one of the comments, it's probabley natural, but romantically-inclined folks in the 19th C reckoned it to be a 'druidical' monument.
It's a 'capstone' balanced on two other large rocks to produce a little 'room' beneath. It lies in the middle of a wide outcrop of stone on a fairly remote part of the Pennine moors.
The easiest approach is via the footpath to 'Top Withins' near Haworth, then strike out north-west(ish) towards the Trig Point. It's a little further over the moors from there...
Cheers
Dave
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Thorgrim
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| New Message Posted!2005-11-02 15:00
What do you mean by a natural dolmen?
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