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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 sits in the middle of nowhere on the top of the moor. It is covered in markings, cups & rings etc. What is most strange is an iron bolt & nut sticking up out of the stone. This has been locked in to the stone using molten lead. Strange indeed. |
| Posted Comments: frogcottage42
(2010-05-31) | What you have here is a nice example of industrial archaeology, probably 18th/ 19th century. Probably the base of a wooden derrick or capstan.
Lead was the standard way of fixing iron into stone until the invention of epoxy resins.
This is probably a very interesting site and worthy of recording but not in a prehistoric, megalithic context. | PAB
(2010-05-31) | Thanks frogcottage42 for a gentle & respectful comment on this posting - one of the things I have always appreciated on the Portal was the way posters are treated....I know I would not have stayed as a regular if I had been subjected to some of the torrents I have seen on other sites! | petersmith
(2010-06-01) | Don't be so quick to dismiss this one chaps, go see it first. | frogcottage42
(2010-06-01) | Petersmith, I actually rate industrial archaeology as my favourite aspect of human's effect on their surroundings. My comments are not intended to be sarcastic, merely informative. | petersmith
(2010-06-02) | Thank you, of course you are right in highlighting an explanation I had not considered. But what industrial use could this be used for do you think? The angles are all wrong for architecture, the iron bolt nothing but a hindrance in industry if this was a working channel. It is most perplexing. | petersmith
(2010-06-02) | I have grabbed a 3d landscape OS map here http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/petersmith.mobile/HardenMoorStones30May2010#5478295298302352002 it shows the stone in the landscape. This is what the view would look like sitting on the stone looking across the valley (the only view from this location). Maybe, perhaps. | frogcottage42
(2010-06-02) | I would suggest that the stone was once securely fixed to the ground (ie.part of it!) and there would have been timber fixed in the slots. The one remaining bolt is most likely to have held down the side opposite the thrust being applied. I would guess that this was the base for a small derrick or the anchor point for a pulley system for moving stone. It would seem more obvious if this piece were still embedded in the top of unquarried bedrock and the channels you now see were probably much longer. | petersmith
(2010-06-04) | Sounds logiccal I confess, thanks frogcottage42. |
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