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Grumble wrote: Sat Dec 21, 2019 11:25 pm I’ve been fascinated with standing stones and stone circles for as long as I can remember. I visited Callanish when I was about 10. Here’s a possible reason for the location of Callanish. Seems plausible, I wonder how common lightning scars are though?

GeenDienst wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2019 12:31 am

Grumble wrote: Sat Dec 21, 2019 11:25 pm I’ve been fascinated with standing stones and stone circles for as long as I can remember. I visited Callanish when I was about 10. Here’s a possible reason for the location of Callanish. Seems plausible, I wonder how common lightning scars are though?

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On the face of it, it seems far fetched that this finding isn't significant for the Callanish standing stones. I note that the archaeologists had to uncover the lightning signal from under peat bogs, but the story says the peat started to be laid down at about the same time. All we have here in this story (does the little dance that makes people who know this stuff head this way) is the vox pops from the archaeologists interviewed, from which it seems that this is really unprecedented. One says the lightning scarring is “a really huge-looking event”, which sounds pretty rare.

I'm guessing the geophysicists are already busy with grant applications.

murmur wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2019 11:55 am But it's not actually Callanais: the stone in question is at Loch Roag and not definitely part of the Callanais complex and certainly isn't what most folk would understand as the Callanais stone circle.

Whoever was responsible for the tagline (and the journo who wrote the piece to a lesser extent) needs slapping on the wrist.

murmur wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2019 6:17 pm Calanais XI

Don't get me wrong: it's certainly interesting that this discovery has been made and may have some connection with that particular site's origins; it's just that the article and its accompnying tagline and pic are not helpful; and it doesn't tell us much about the whole Calanais complex.

The whole area is fascinating and well worth visiting, if not quite as spectacular as The Neolithic Playground on Orkney.

jimbob wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2019 7:21 pm

murmur wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2019 6:17 pm Calanais XI

Don't get me wrong: it's certainly interesting that this discovery has been made and may have some connection with that particular site's origins; it's just that the article and its accompnying tagline and pic are not helpful; and it doesn't tell us much about the whole Calanais complex.

The whole area is fascinating and well worth visiting, if not quite as spectacular as The Neolithic Playground on Orkney.

Orkney is great.

And there are less-famous tombs than Meashowe with free access to the inside

Nickynockynoonoo wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2019 8:07 pm

jimbob wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2019 7:21 pm

murmur wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2019 6:17 pm Calanais XI

Don't get me wrong: it's certainly interesting that this discovery has been made and may have some connection with that particular site's origins; it's just that the article and its accompnying tagline and pic are not helpful; and it doesn't tell us much about the whole Calanais complex.

The whole area is fascinating and well worth visiting, if not quite as spectacular as The Neolithic Playground on Orkney.

Orkney is great.

And there are less-famous tombs than Meashowe with free access to the inside

Yes Orkney is great. The Italian chapel, built by WW2 prisoners is well worth seeing.