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Re: Modern memorials as 'ancient monuments'
Dec 15, 2012, 20:38
dean dean wrote:
[quote="Harryshill"]I was thinking of the very much in the majority, prehistory sites that haven't been Christianised.

The church doesn't seem to have even noticed them.

It looks to me that they saw nothing of a threat in them at all

i certainly read somewhere, about a religious (christian, possibly even papal) decree calling for the eradication of all pagan monuments. unfortunately the knowledge is lost in time in the midst of my mind. maybe they realised they were fighting a losing battle?


I agree with HH that in the main they were totally overlooked. I think it more a modern popular 'belief' that they were destroyed or built-over because they were supposedly seen as a threat. The odd few weren't proof that this was the case.
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