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Fingal's Limpet Hammers
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Submitted byAndy B
AddedFeb 15 2011
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Description Fingal's Limpet Hammers
A pair of tall and leaning standing stones colloquially named after implements used for prising limpets from the rocks. Probably a food source used locally since the Island was first colonised.

Copyright Andrew Curtis and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.

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AngieLake
(2011-02-15)
I love the name! It probably sounds much more poetic in Gaelic, though! The stones reminded me of Penrhos-Feilw http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1496

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