| "St. Monans Sun Stones" Much of my personal work is concerned with myth and legend, folklore and fairytales - and for me, these "sun stones" carry distant echoes of many things that magic stories are made of. Perhaps the same as those the Neolithic shaman drew for us on cave walls.
The name "sun stones" is my own - others call them shale stones or "turtie stanes" - but trained geologists tell us they are septarian concretions where the centre is a system of irregular cracks filled with coarse calcite chrystals. The cracks formed as the nodule contracted due to the de-watering of clay minerals during burial. The calcite then precipitated from pore fluids passing through the concretion. | |
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