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    Nearest RA to Wessex

    PeteG
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    Post  PeteG Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:23 pm

    here in Avebury we have one stone on Fyfield down with cup marks on
    (the most underwhelming RA I have ever seen said Hob)
    I am wondering where the nearest piece of RA is if I travelled north?

    PeteG
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    Post  Admin Tue Mar 24, 2009 4:04 pm

    Hi Pete!

    PeteG wrote:here in Avebury we have one stone on Fyfield down with cup marks on
    (the most underwhelming RA I have ever seen said Hob)
    I am wondering where the nearest piece of RA is if I travelled north?

    You don't have too much down there. There's the impressive-looking Pool Farm Cist in Somerset, here:

    http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/3258/pool_farm_cist.html - but that's going in the wrong direction.

    But you don't have to many thereabouts, coming north. You can see the curious cup-markings I found in the churchyard at Salford, nr Rollright - http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/5841/salford.html - which I'm still intrigued by. If George or someone doesn't beat me to it, I'll dig out what you've got tomorrow. Gotta have an early nite. Her Majesty awaits my pleasure in the morn. Bastards!
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    tiompan


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    Post  tiompan Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:01 am

    Pete , probably Gloucestershire Offas Dyke x2 ,Drummer Boy stone (questionable ) but the most southerly , Blakeney Hill woods & Nottingham Hill Cheltenham .

    George

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