Gaulstown Dolmen
Scale: Capstone 6 tons
Note: The Gaulstown Dolmen is the “Mercedes Benz of Dolmens”, located in a hidden glade on a beautiful hill, southwest of Waterford, Ireland. Even the iconographic Poulnabrone Dolmen, several hundred miles away in The Burren, pales in comparison to this structure. The Capstone is 6 tons, balanced on five minor slabs. It is only a brief walk from the back-road to enter the glade where it sits. Locally this hill is known as “Hags Hill” where a magic-weaving witch once dwelt away from town. Also known as a “portal tomb” this megalithic masterpiece has stood for over 5000 years! It’s streamline look, with a frontal aerodynamic point on the Capstone, reveals an incredible sense of style, along with wonderful crafting, and engineering. How exactly this was achieved is not yet known. This is a truly magical and enchanted place, and absolutely sacred. I shared this experience with my family, and was easily one of the best days of my life. This is a must see for hikers, anthropologists, and photographers alike.
Standing Stone/Pale Marble
Scale: 3 feet height, 6 inches width, 400 pounds weight
Elevation: Ground level, rocky plateau
Note: This totally brilliant marble white Standing Stone is on a sacred hill top with many other incredible Celtic-style stones. It was obviously a spiritual and most likely astrological center in pre-history. The hill is covered with variations of Quartz, Marble, and Granite, and felt like an energy center in so many ways with the bright Sun on the stones; also enchanting to look at during peak Autumn.
Standing Stones of Skyrim
Location: Standing Stone facing the beautiful White Shore Mountains. Play this game.
Standing Stone/Salt Hill, Galway
Location: Salt Hill Beach Galway
Scale: 7 feet height, 2.5 feet length, 8 inches width, 700 pounds weight.
Elevation: Sea level.
Note: This Stone in Galway is simply beautiful. Standing Stones by their very nature are cinematic, and what this conveys is that Celts practiced the original forms of cinematic sense. This was a great moment of understanding for me.
Standing Stone, Skyrim
Scale: 10 feet height, 2.5 feet width, 1 ton weight.
Elevation: 1000 feet.
Note: This animated digital landscape in Skyrim is purely inspirational. Due to scenes like these, I decided to find the real thing every summer. So glad I did. I will continue to post these every so often to entice people to play this game, and also find the real thing at Celtic places. You can do it.
Celtic Cliff’s in New England/Sacred..
Location: Sherborn Massachusetts.
Note: On top of this cliff are several crafted and cut megalithic size stones that were absolutely placed there as a statement. The angularity of the cuts in the rocks indicates a specific vantage point where you are obviously meant to look at the stones. You can clearly see how the front stone is cut as if its holding up the stone behind it, which is the center of the massive supporting boulders set behind, with a triangular cut inlay between them. Amazing. This is New England’s equivalent to the Celtic Dolmen.
Hill of Cut Stones/ Symmetric Alters: Rocky Woods, Dover Mass.
Location: Dover Massachusetts, Rocky Woods.
Scale: 50 feet Height, 50 feet circumference of 1000 crafted boulders.
Elevation: Ground level, Forest trail.
After interacting with the stones very closely it is evident that there are crafted and interlocking pieces fitted into each-other to hold them in place, like when two people hold hands, and the palms and fingers are flush; the stones are a 3D puzzle where the pieces interlock in a very specific way. Here is a step by step guide with pictures of how several pieces of one such seemingly super-solid 500 pound boulder are interlocked. The top piece is like an ovular disc or rounded dome covering; with another side piece that fits perfectly INTO the stone like a sliding key..
- Looks like a singular solid boulder from far away, but a closer look reveals something wonderful..
2. Rounded top piece unlocks and seperates..3. Top piece fits perfectly flush back into place..4.Observe the second seemingly flat section on side of boulder..5.Removing this piece reveals a key-like fit going INTO the actual boulder. It came out like a pulled tooth, but easier.6.This giant rock size key, with edges and a rounded long cut, fit exactly back into the boulder, 7 inches deep..7. A view of the refitted pieces of this anything but solid boulder that is a type of puzzle made of stone!8.View of the top of the boulder looking totally solid when all pieces are flush. Amazing, even in icy winter they are absolutely locked..
A close look at the angles and the overall symmetry’s of the stones reveal that even the smallest samples were intentionally placed to fit into an overall ordered geometry. Again, if you are just glancing over this hill quickly you will simply see a pile of stones here and there, but a closer investigation reveals that each stone is cut somehow, and that the distribution of each stone upon the entire hill is spacially even in terms of 1 stone per every few square-feet. Whether stones reveal a face, or an edge, or long angle, those faces, angles and edges suggest comprehensive geometric concepts such as centrality and focal angularity, indicating that the engineer of this scene was creating preferred vantage points for the observer. Amazing. Here is the alter; a quick glance will only observe sporadically sitting boulders, but a concentrated look reveals symmetry.
And now I have marked the central line of the equally split center piece, with two X shaped cross sections to the left and right of that center. A perfectly cut triangular stone sits directly above the center line. This is an ancient alter.Many other symmetrical anomalies exist in this place. The next question is, how could this culture cut stones, seemingly like a knife through hot butter, to do this? More to come…
New England Standing Stones/The Solar Stone Type
Location: Squaw Peak, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Scale: 5 feet height, 2.5 feet length, 3 inches width.
Elevation: 2,512 feet.
Location: Heath, Massachusetts.
Scale: 2.5 feet height, 1 foot length,2 inches width.
Elevation: Ground level, elevated plateau.
Location: Squaw Peak, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Scale: 5 feet height, 2.5 feet length, 3 inch width
Elevation: 2,400.
Note: A clear distinction in Standing Stone styles in New England appears with each hike. This style, I believe, is often connected to the Solar mid-day alignment. I call this the “Solar Stone” for its specific 45 degree crafted-side parallels that lead to arrow-like point at the top. They are in enchanting places among other monuments and alters.