Five Stone Rows Discovered on Scilly Isles
Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 15 November 2001 Page Views: 2516
EnglandThe Scilly Isles, 27 miles (43km) southwest of the Cornish mainland, is unusually rich in archaeology and is one of the must-see areas of prehistoric Britain. Until now only one probable Bronze Age (c2300-800BC) stone row (a line of upright megaliths) has been identified, on the island of St Martins.Preliminary fieldwork carried out by members of the Cornish Earth Mysteries Group earlier this summer suggests that at least five stone rows on the Island of Gugh may have been overlooked. The newly-discovered rows, previously misidentified as the remains of stone field walls, display a number of archaeo-astronomical orientations, including possible winter solstice sunrise and summer solstice sunset alignments.
The stone rows are aligned with a number of nearby megalithic monuments and distinctive natural features, including a 9ft (2.7m)-tall standing stone called The Old Man of Gugh, several cairns and Obadiah`s Barrow, an impressive entrance grave.
The original article on which this is based appeared in Meyn Mamvro, a Cornish Earthmysteries magazine, published three times a year at 2GBP per issue.
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