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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | This stone is very near to the west end of the southern row at Merrivale (see left of pics), and I feel sure it was selected for its unusual patterns. Why it was placed here, exactly, is a mystery, as I haven't noticed any other strikingly different stone like this in the complex.
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| Posted Comments: Thorgrim
(2004-10-23) | That seems highly likely - such a stone must have seemed special. Pink granite with quartz veins? Often think it would be informative if someone with some knowledge of geology could write an article for the Portal relating local geology to megalithic structures. | thecaptain
(2004-10-23) | What a nice picture of a lovely stone Angie.
When I was last at Merrivale, I noticed that there are quite a few "special stones" in the rows, some large pointy ones, some large slabs etc. Quite a few of these seemed to be at a position in the row where an alignment between the giant menhir and some significant point on the skyline crossed the row. Maybe I was imagining things, but there must have been some reason for these special stones to be where they were. | AngieLake
(2004-10-23) | I agree, thecaptain. I'd noticed them too, and looking back on the dowsing plan from the South row, done in 99/00,?, there was movement around each one of those larger stones, whilst the rest of the processional route just snaked in and out of the smaller ones on the south side as it headed west. I hadn't made a specific note about this pink stone, but it was probably one of the stones (movement at the extreme west end of the row was alternating from side to side in swirls around the stones), which I took 2 or 3 clockwise moves around. When I said it was special, I meant the colour and texture, not the size. I read what you put on the comments to my other Merrivale pics, about alignments from the menhir to different stones in the rows at various solstices, equinoxes, etc, and would think this is quite possible. Jack Walker of Tavistock wrote a very interesting article in "Dartmoor Magazine" Issue 71, Summer 2003, regarding his theory about the way the rows' stones cast shadows towards each other at certain times of the year. I put my friend Jack Morris-Eyton of Cumbria (Swinside) in touch with him, (he studies stones' shadows too) and we all met up one day, and went out on the moor at Drizzlecombe. JW is a very nice man, and if you wanted, I may be able to find a contact address for you, so you can share theories. |
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