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cromlech
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|  Posted 06-04-2006 at 22:35
I am looking for megaliths compltely made of quartz. anyone can help?
some have some quartz as part of there struture like newgrange, but looking for more extreme stones. any hint? 
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| Posted 07-04-2006 at 00:09
I'm off on a trip to North Wales next week, and have been checking sites for sites to visit on the Portal and in Julian Cope's The Modern Antiquarian. He mentions that the massive stone of Henblas Dolmen are made of quartz, (a sub note says it is part of a Theme Park now - I hope to check this site out, and will try and remember to post to this thread when I get back. Grid Ref SH423724 on Anglesey. It doesn't appear to be on the portal... yet....
For stones containing quartz, but not made entirely of quartz.....
He mentions Bodowyr Dolmen, which has three uprights, and a capstone. One of the uprights and the capstone contains quartz, he mentions feeling a zinging in his back when he lent against it.
Also the stones of Kemp Howe near Shap in Cumbria have large pieces of quartz, a pink rose quartz. The stones are actually Shap granite, but if I remember correctly they are infused with rose quartz.
Are you hoping to pick up a resonance from the stones?
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Anonymous
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Duloe in Cornwall
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=71
is my favorite
Pete G
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| Posted 07-04-2006 at 09:53
Slightly off-topic, but when the antiquarian W.Allan investigated a series of cremation mounds at Langadae in Orkney (present-day Langa Dee near Stromness) "a lump of white quartz - locally called hael-stone" was found in each of these
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| Posted 07-04-2006 at 11:31
From my reading into the subject, it seems unlikely that you would get "really big" ie megalithic stones made entirely from quartz. It seems to occur mostly in seams within other rocks and is formed by a process of slow crystalisation. One also has to be careful with the general term. Quartz describes many things including amethyst and flint.
More info here...
http://www.answers.com/quartz?gwp=11&ver=1.1.2.381&method=3
Not withstanding Pete's beautiful example but I wonder if they get much bigger?
Jim.
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Anonymous
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In the latest Stonehenge riverside project report there is a write up of the Bulford dig where a lump of transparent rock crystal was found with a burial near the stone.
"An unexpected discovery came with the investigation of a prone sarsen stone at Bulford
(SU 175 431), just 2 miles to the east on the other bank of the Avon. The 2.8m-long
Bulford stone lies within a ring ditch just north of a large cemetery of round barrows.
Resistivity survey identified the course of the ring ditch and located further anomalies
within it. The ring ditch’s eastern half was excavated to reveal the base of a hole in
which the sarsen had once stood. On its west side, the stone hole was flanked by a line of
small post holes which are interpreted as having held anti-friction posts to enable the
stone to be erected from the east side with minimal difficulty. Such posts are well known
from excavations of stone holes at Avebury. To the immediate east of this stone hole
there was a shallow pit filled with a cairn of broken flint nodules and sarsen flakes. The
shape of the pit mirrors that of the stone and is most likely the base of the hole from
which the sarsen was extracted in prehistory and raised vertically in the adjacent stone
hole just 2m away. This would indicate that sarsens were distributed over Salisbury Plain
as well as the Marlborough Downs 20 miles to the north.
The standing stone was probably erect when a 30m-diameter ring ditch with internal bank
was constructed around it. There was no burial at its precise centre but a small cut near
its centre contained an unusual burial of a small Food Vessel with cremated remains of a
small adult (possibly female) and selected unburnt bones from a large adult (probably
male). In one case, cremated bones were packed within an unburnt vertebra. Grave
goods were placed either side of the pot and, on the east side, were protected within a
box-shaped structure of tabular flint. These included a wild boar’s tusk, flint tools, bone
spatulae and a miniature ‘megalith’ carved from limestone. On the west side there was a
transparent rock crystal. This item is highly unusual and is likely to have come some
distance, perhaps from South Wales or from as far away as the Alps. Later on, a second
larger Food Vessel cremation was inserted into the north side of the burial. Food Vessels
date to c. 2300-1900 BC and it is likely, but unproven that the stone was erected before
the burial.
The implications of the Bulford discovery are considerable. Stonehenge was not the only
standing stone monument on Salisbury Plain and there may have been many smaller
installations of single stones. In William Stukeley’s time, a pair of standing stones were
recorded at Luxenborough Plantation, perhaps erected within Coneybury henge. Early
Ordnance Survey maps show the Bulford stone to have been just one of many in the area
between Beacon Hill and Durrington Walls. Further investigation should reveal whether
it was one of a line of standing stones."
Stonehenge Riverside Project Report (Pdf)
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| Posted 07-04-2006 at 14:51
One of the stones at Boscawen Un circle is quartz:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=22
Always worth visiting this place. The latest photo on the site page suggests the best time to visit is soon (if you like bluebells rather than bracken).
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| Posted 07-04-2006 at 15:23
If you are in the Northants region, it would be worth a look into the village of Culworth.
If you find the large preachers cross, look across the green opposite, you will find a huge lump of quartz in the manor house garden wall.
The locals tell a tale about the king of England using it as a mounting block before a battle.
If you can dowse you will soon realise why it is where it is.
Kevin
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| Posted 07-04-2006 at 21:50
The recumbant stone circles of Scotland have stones with quartz in them and also those that have been excavated there has been found quantities of quartz and at a few sites quartz crystals.
Some links here might help:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~lib266/stones/main.htm
http://www.stonesofwonder.com/index.html
http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/archaeology/special/recumbent.asp
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|  Posted 07-04-2006 at 22:04
These two stones are really fantastic Knockraheen SW Standing Stones. They differ completely from the other megaliths nearby.
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| Posted 08-04-2006 at 02:51
quite a lot of sets of stone rows in Brittany made out of white quarz blocks. See here for example http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8729
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| Posted 09-04-2006 at 00:04
Thanks all for your contributions/help. that gives me a good starting point for my research, and i will visit some of the most promising locations. And yes I dowse, but i also experiment with cristals.
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| Posted 09-04-2006 at 00:06
Do you have more pictures of this location? from the pictures I see on the link the menhirs don't look like they are made of quartz, and i can't just go there next week to check it out...
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Anonymous
User not Registered | Posted 09-04-2006 at 00:43
How about these
http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/774
http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/1856
http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/2132
The two large stones that form the entrance into Castleruddery stone circle are quartz too, although they don't look like it in this photo: http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/1099
There's a nice solid quarts standing stone near to Ballynoe stone circle in County Down.
There are a few stone rows with all quarts stones in west Ireland - http://www.irishmegaliths.org.uk/zPoundcarton.htm for instance.
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Anonymous
User not Registered | Posted 09-04-2006 at 00:48
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On 2006-04-07 22:04, Klingon wrote:
These two stones are really fantastic Knockraheen SW Standing Stones. They differ completely from the other megaliths nearby.
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Not strictly true. Lettergorman South has a quartz stone that was probably an outlier - http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/2910
A hand full of circles in the area have quartz stones at the centre - http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/2893 for example
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| Posted 10-04-2006 at 22:27
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On 2006-04-09 00:48, Anonymous wrote:
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On 2006-04-07 22:04, Klingon wrote:
These two stones are really fantastic Knockraheen SW Standing Stones. They differ completely from the other megaliths nearby.
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Not strictly true. Lettergorman South has a quartz stone that was probably an outlier - http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/2910
A hand full of circles in the area have quartz stones at the centre - http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/2893 for example
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Looks pretty exciting based on the picture. Do you have location of other similar circles with quartz stones in the middle. If so I will invest in a ticket to Ireland. 
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