BrigantesNation
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"Can't be the Stonehenge of the North...
Oct 28, 2003, 21:03
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Cos it's got no stones" a certain senior NYCC council archaeologist was heard to say on Radio York today.
Watch your screens those in the Tyne Tees region.
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Kammer
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Re: "Can't be the Stonehenge of the Nort...
Oct 29, 2003, 17:44
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You talking about Thornborough BN? I'm confused.
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stubob
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Re: "Can't be the Stonehenge of the Nort...
Oct 29, 2003, 17:48
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No it can't......Thats the annoying title carried by Arbor Low.
nice one
stu.
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BrigantesNation
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Re: "Can't be the Stonehenge of the Nort...
Oct 29, 2003, 22:48
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Last time I checked they were both the Stonehenge of the north.
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Kammer
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Re: "Can't be the Stonehenge of the Nort...
Oct 30, 2003, 10:14
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I'm still confused.
:-)#
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Moth
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Arbor Low
Oct 30, 2003, 12:01
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Thought that was the Avebury of the north - or is that just Mr Cope and me...?!
love
Moth
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baza
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Re: Arbor Low
Oct 30, 2003, 12:15
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....that's just Mr. Cope and you.
:o)
In Burl's popular little gazetteer, his entry for Arbor Low commences with this sentence:
<I>Magnificently situated at 1230ft (375m) O.D. this great circle-henge, 'the Stonehenge of the North', commands superb views.</I>
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BrigantesNation
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Re: "Can't be the Stonehenge of the Nort...
Oct 30, 2003, 13:24
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Sorry, yes it is to do the Thornborough. This was covered by a Radio broadcast on BBC York.
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BrigantesNation
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Re: Arbor Low v Thornborough - pistols at dawn
Oct 30, 2003, 13:44
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I'm not sure who first coined Stonehenge of the North for Thornborough, It might have been me! but I don't think so.
I know that as early as 1908 they were being compared to Stonehenge - "Thornbrough Rings are collectively a monument as impressive as Stonehenge itself" A. Hadrian - Earthworks of England
They have also been called The Avebury of the North and the Flag Fen of the North (my usage). but these have been dropped as a way of conveying the importance of the site to the outside world as nobody knows what they are.
My latest exagerated superlative is "Westminster Abbey of the Neolithic Age" but even I can't compare with Mark Hortons "single largest earth moving operation in early prehistory" which was interpreted by our local press as a "Neolithic quarry".
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BrigantesNation
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Re: Arbor Low v Thornborough - pistols at dawn
Oct 30, 2003, 13:45
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quaote was by A. Hadrian Allcroft
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