Ancient British history.

>>2403437
They come from the Elven folk who lived in the Britannian realm before the coming of men.

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>>2403437
>Do any of you /his/torians know anything about stones like pic?
>No one knows their purpose.

So, no.

>I have a theory that they show mountain contours like a map, and show fresh water sources. But it's just a hunch.

A way to test it, do the ones close to each other show some of the same pattern, like they are showing the same mapped features? If there are three in a rough line, A, B and C, does B show some features in common with A, and some common with C?

>>2403437

An interesting theory - as >>2403887 says, you should get some diagrams together and test it. I would think a corpus of them has probably been published.

I think that your theory is unlikely to be correct - but it needs to be tested first. Even if you're wrong, the investigation is worthwhile.

Also, I'd recommend to you Ronald Hutton's 'Pagan Britain'. Deals well with British pre-history.

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It could be a marking to follow the sun. This is very common within shamanism. They would have certain spots in a stone they would mark (they would choose a stone for permanency) so they could measure where the sun or the moon were. This is probably also what Stonehenge was for.

This can be very useful. If for instance you know where the sun is on winter solstice, you know when it will be warmer again, which means you can predict the seasons, which enables you to have agriculture

Has anyone done any tests on these? Just speculating but it could have been used to melt metals, maybe in a religious ceremony to make a religious symbol.

The indentations are the foundations of a clay furnace. The rings are used to house fuel, the cup is where the molten metal would be. A channel from the cup to the outside could have allowed metal to flow to a mould.

Ancient Britons built them during the Anglo-Saxon invasions to confuse future English historians.

Legend has it if you stand outside Plaid Cymru HQ on the 1st of March you can still hear them laughing about it.

>>2403437

They're probably clan territory markers. The patterns are reminiscent of the circular barrow mounds and trackways associated with pre-European religion in Britain (as at Stonehenge).

>>2404138

They're WAAY older than the Celts you moron.

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