andygreyweather
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Hare care
Jun 29, 2005, 12:26
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The Hare Stone, Brooks Hill, Harrow Weald is set to have the offending plant growth currently covering it over cut back!
A direct approach to owner of the Bluebeckers Restaurant chain ellicited a sympathetic response.
This little stone isn't currently blessed with a site note on this web site; it may though be a broken-off piece of the Sudbury Stone (Sudbury golf course, near Wembley).
If anyone has any information about the Harrow-on-the-Hill area in the context of it's sacred essence and other such stones, I'd be interested. A Pinner Stone existed nearby as does the Wealdstone.
The Venerable Bede refered to Harrow-on-ther-Hill as a Pagan Stronghold ... interesting!
Andy
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danielspaniel
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Re: Hare care
Jun 29, 2005, 13:16
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Good news that this stone is getting a haircut!
We have a Harrow Hill in Sussex: http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/2146
Apparently the word Harrow comes from Old English 'hearg' meaning "heathen temple or shrine"
Interesting indeed...
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Rolling Ronnie
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Re: Hare care
Jun 29, 2005, 14:02
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Or possibly from the farming implement!!
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danielspaniel
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Re: Hare care
Jun 29, 2005, 14:56
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Ah, the old question; Which came first, the Temple or the Farming Implement?! ;-)
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Steve Gray
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Re: Hare care
Jun 29, 2005, 15:44
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Harrow can mean to distress or oppress, from which we get the phrase "a harrowing experience". The farm implement was probably similarly named because it's used to break up (distress) the ground.
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danielspaniel
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Re: Hare care
Jun 29, 2005, 17:18
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Stop talking about harrows! My 9 yr old son knocked his front tooth out on one up my allotment last week and I am still traumatised. It was harrowing!
I take the point, but many claim an etymological connection between hearg and harrow:
http://home.earthlink.net/~wodensharrow/asatro.html
even though there appears to be a closer old english match in 'hearwa'
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=harrow&searchmode=none
Also note relation to 'hearse'.
Eeeh, I love a bit of etymology, me!
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PMM
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Re: Hare care
Jun 29, 2005, 17:32
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"hearse...
1291 (in Anglo-Latin), "flat framework for candles, hung over a coffin," from O.Fr. herce "long rake, harrow," from M.L. hercia, from L. hirpicem (nom. hirpex) "harrow," from Oscan hirpus "wolf," supposedly in allusion to its teeth. The Oscan word may be related to L. hirsutus "shaggy, bristly." So called because it resembled a harrow, a large rake for breaking up soil. Sense extended to other temporary frameworks built over dead people, then to "vehicle for carrying a body," a sense first recorded 1650."
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hearse
There's something else about this on the tip of my mind, but I can't remember what it was.
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Rolling Ronnie
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Re: Hare care
Jun 29, 2005, 17:37
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Or is it at the back of your tongue
;¬)
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PMM
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Re: Hare care
Jun 29, 2005, 17:47
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uvula
1392, from L.L. uvula, from L. uvola "small bunch of grapes," dim. of uva "grape," which is of unknown origin. So called from fancied resemblance of the organ to small grapes.
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Sifaka
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Re: Hare care
Jun 29, 2005, 21:34
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Not exactly Harrow I know, but have you come across the mound on Stanmore Common? Dave Binns on his excellent site EarthTransition identifies it as a Bronze Age round barrow...
Go to <www.earthtransition.com>
and click on the 'Stanmore Surprise' link.
This was news to me anyway!
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