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FourWinds
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Re: They've done WHAT ???!!
Dec 22, 2004, 07:43
"Sure it's a beautiful stone but once it's removed you lose is the dramatic landscape setting, the views over the sea and the moorland, the relationship between this cairn and the other nearby burial monuments, the trackways and rivers, the very things that may have inspired the artist. Things which could hopefully instill something deeper in <b>anyone who sees this stone</b> and possibly give them some insight into why the stone is where it is rather than just view it as a lovely artifact."

I quite agree with what you say, but who's going to see it?

Also, just to through a spanner at everything ... Ireland has the greatest tradition of carvings on cairns. Quite a few bits were reused from other sites, as were many in France. How does anyone know that this was carved to be a part of the tomb? It could have stood elsewhere before the kerb was constructed. There is only way to know that a stone was made to be where it is: if the stone is set into the natural and the carvings stop at the natural ground line or the carvings stop because a neighbouring stone is in the way - i.e. the stone was positioned and then carved.

It's like saying all gravegoods were made not to be seen. We simply do not know. And what of the one bloke Timeteam dug up who had a Latin inscription from a temple forming part of his stone-lined east-west grave? The carving faced inwards. Was that made with the intention that it was never seen? No.

Being part of a tomb does not necessarily mean that it was originally meant to be part of a tomb.
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