Zastrozzi
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The antiquated modernist
May 13, 2003, 19:20
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Something strange is happening in Bristol...
Just outside town there's the standard bloody awful shopping mall, called 'The Mall', imaginatively enough. The road that goes past this place has four roundabouts.
In the centre of these roundabouts are respectively: a twelve-foot monolith, a Silbury-hill shaped platform, a long trench (maybe aligning with the sunrise on some day?) and on the biggest, a spiral arrangement of plants and trackway leading to the summit.
Was this intentionally pagan, or do I need to stop reading the books for a while?
Confused of Bristol
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Telepathine
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Re: The antiquated modernist
May 13, 2003, 22:17
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Wow, sounds like a cosmic traffic island.
Similarly, in Birmingham, there's a lovely circle been put up in one of the roughest neighbourhoods as a traffic island (wonder if they were erected by the same geezer ??)
Maybe they were trying to 'vibe out' the local muggers?
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BrigantesNation
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Re: The antiquated modernist
May 13, 2003, 22:29
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There's also a stone alignment at the roundabout beside the B+Q warehouse at Stockton.
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fitzcoraldo
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Moduments of the Tees
May 13, 2003, 22:35
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The portrack roundabout ....it's a strange mixture of steel and stone. Check out the modern Silbury on the banks of the silvery Tees just half a km away.
I believe Rich of Alirich fame has created a timber circle on the Castle Eden walkway.
There's a modern stone circle in Grangetown.
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ocifant
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Re: Moduments of the Tees
May 14, 2003, 06:51
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The entrance to Reading Services on the M4 looks like it will be identified as a 'processional avenue, possibly for ritual or religious purposes' in ages to come. *Large* boulders have been placed either side of the roadway.
Is this the answer? Was the Avenue placed there so people attending Avebury didn't park their oxen and carts there? :-)
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The Werg
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Re: Cheshire
May 14, 2003, 07:38
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On the west side of Winsford, Cheshire, there is a roundabout with a huge set of stones, making me think of the remains of a long barrow like the (Cheshire) Bridestones; it also appears to have a processional avenue on the North side.
If I remember correct, some of the roundabouts around Glastonbury, Somerset, have some menhirs set in them.
Cheers
The Werg
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nickbrand
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Re: The antiquated modernist
May 14, 2003, 08:28
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Glenrothes in Fife has a roundabout like this, very close to Balfarg Henge and the relocated Balbirnie circle. The roundabout was constructed sometime in the 1980's. Some pictures of it on (dare I say it) the Megalithic Portal :
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=My_eGallery&file=index&do=showpic&pid=2241&orderby=dateD
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=My_eGallery&file=index&do=showpic&pid=2243&orderby=dateD
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=My_eGallery&file=index&do=showpic&pid=2242&orderby=dateD
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BlueGloves
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Re: road dirt
May 14, 2003, 08:44
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Yes, in design terms these objects are coming from what-is-known as Folk Memory. It's like the flicker of an echo of the conscience at destroying the originals. They're everywhere. (Almost everywhere).
There's a few fake - often slate - stone circles in North Wales. Slaughter the polar bears but start to keep gerbils as a pet. There'll be a complex anthropological term for it - but I don't know what it is. 'The Cargo Cult' ?
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Ike
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Re: The antiquated modernist
May 14, 2003, 09:19
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More like Telly Tubby land.
Perhaps a section on TMA would be good for these site ;-)
Forget the Romans, have a Modern Commercialism Section instead.
On serious note: I woonder if anything was found / destroyed there during the construction of the Cribbs Complex.
at Avonmouth..
"The Mere Bank" was only found because the Second Severn Crossing as built.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/browse.php?site_id=3872
Regs,
Ike
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FourWinds
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Why bother building one ...
May 14, 2003, 10:00
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... when you can just build a roundabout around a real one:
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/image.php?image_id=13871
and then add a crucifix!
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