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Re: a whinger writes

Mar 14, 2005, 21:06

It's a pisser that England has no folklore of its own innit :-)

All of our ideas about ancient monuments are assumptions, full stop. We don't know what stone circles were really for. We don't know what else went on around megalithic tombs or later barrows - we can't prove that the burial was the primary use in many cases.

One standing stone I visited yesterday struck me as being in an odd place. At first I put this down to the modern surroundings making it seem odd. I never worked out what the cause of the oddness was, but, when the low cloud to the west blew away, I think I may have discovered one idea about why the stone is where it is: It is a bloody good place to stand and view Muckish Mountain, which looms over the location above some nearer low hills and appears to be falling over on top of you.

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Prehistoric stone row - or collapsed modern wall? – enkidu41, Mar 09, 2005, 10:05


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