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Littlestone
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Re: Cheddar man lives
Jul 17, 2006, 10:32
Rhiannon wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/03/08/nched08.html

As Harry Hill would say, whaddathechances? Apparently quite good then.



That research, and one other, went through my mind as well this morning. The following from your link is particularly interesting -

Rhiannon wrote:
"It is a fascinating demonstration of a direct link between ourselves and our prehistoric ancestors," he said.""We are revealing connections which go far beyond any written record."


The other bit of research (need to check the source but it may have been in the televised version of Melvyn Bragg's The Adventure of English) is the growing realization that the people present in these islands at the time of the Germanic 'invasions' had considerable influence on the newcomers and were not simply displaced or wiped out; particularly interesting is the flexible word order of English which seems to owe its origin to the languages of those non-Germanic peoples.

While all this is fascinating stuff it's drifting away slightly from the point (the point being how connected we feel to our past). Nigel put his finger on it when he said -

Rhiannon wrote:
...marks made by your ancestors that are evident in fields where you live are bound to touch you more deeply than ones in say Poland. They are more immediate, why shouldn't they? Taking a trip to see Ozymandias lying in the desert sands can't evince the same sense of connection as digging bits of him up in your own garden. Logic says the two cases are the same but feeling an ancestral pull isn't about logic its about emotion.


Sitting in the little Anglo-Saxon church at Alton Barnes and knowing that it's been a place of continuous worship for a thousand years sends a tingle through your bones. The sarsens under the other little church, across the fields at Alton Priors, suggest that it may have been a place of continuous worship for several thousand years.
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