Dumfries and Galloway, Friday, 28th October, 2022…
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What this monument most resembles, perhaps,
is a spindle or spinning wheel,
minus its wheel.
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Perhaps its wheel is the sun
in which case Galdus
should be Gildus and may have been
a Scottish queen rather than a Scottish king…
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There was once a wheel, though,
inscribed on one of the stones
and now housed for ‘safe-keeping’
in the National Museum of Scotland.
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It was not too dissimilar to the one at the previous site.
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Such carvings are usually described as ‘cup-and-ring’ marks,
or ‘cup-and-ring spirals, and they are legion on megalithic stones.
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All of which suggests that these sites
were originally constructed to greet the rising sun.
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And why not?
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