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Here you are....

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anyway, hope this info helps. First found reference to these stones on this website, and used it in a paper on the potential for surviving archaeology of Bidston based upon maps....thought I'd repay the favour with some info!

I've had a few top drawer archaeologists look at this and they came to the same conclusion. By the way, if you're looking for any prehistory in Bidston, that cave would be a good start. A number of stone axe heads were found in the local area, but were lost in the bombing of Liverpool museum.

I've recently been given a polished neolithic axe head found in Heswall about 30 years ago and the owner had been using it as a door stop.

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Thanks for looking into this deano. I had a feeling I was never really going to get round to it!

Question is - is that field visible from the site of the observatory?

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It would have been when the observatory was first built, and we don't necessarily know the size of the stones, only their position....as a caveat though, I'm just surmising and am probably incorrect; however it's clear that it's highly unlikely to be a prehistoric monument of any kind. Would have been nice though!

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Its a shame there is nothing written about it. I thought Neilson might have mentioned them but he didn't. frown

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Never seen that cave, nice pic !. I would still go on the theory that the stones are marking a boundary like a dwarf wall.


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Im sure that there are still some large stones in that field? think
T.C. or derekdwc can you remember asking me what the mound was
Told them it was a large stone mossed over. smile


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Im sure that there are still some large stones in that field? think
T.C. or derekdwc can you remember asking me what the mound was
Told them it was a large stone mossed over. smile


yep i asked you about them mate thumbsup thay are still there! smile


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