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embryonomore 853 posts |
Edited Mar 03, 2013, 23:02
Mar 03, 2013, 23:00
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Hi folks, I walked part of the Wessex Ridgeway today, following the path from Avebury to Marlborough. Just over halfway, to the north of the Wessex Ridgeway was a small stone circle next to some trees. Doesn't appear to be in the book, and I was surprised to see it. Anyone got a name for it so I can look it up? Thanks. Edit: This is it on googlemaps... http://goo.gl/maps/UpYPb
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harestonesdown 1067 posts |
Mar 03, 2013, 23:35
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embryonomore wrote: Hi folks, I walked part of the Wessex Ridgeway today, following the path from Avebury to Marlborough. Just over halfway, to the north of the Wessex Ridgeway was a small stone circle next to some trees. Doesn't appear to be in the book, and I was surprised to see it. Anyone got a name for it so I can look it up? Thanks. Edit: This is it on googlemaps... http://goo.gl/maps/UpYPb I'm not sure of the exact correct name but it's by Rockley, and it's a modern one. :)
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tjj 3606 posts |
Mar 04, 2013, 08:30
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harestonesdown wrote: embryonomore wrote: Hi folks, I walked part of the Wessex Ridgeway today, following the path from Avebury to Marlborough. Just over halfway, to the north of the Wessex Ridgeway was a small stone circle next to some trees. Doesn't appear to be in the book, and I was surprised to see it. Anyone got a name for it so I can look it up? Thanks. Edit: This is it on googlemaps... http://goo.gl/maps/UpYPb I'm not sure of the exact correct name but it's by Rockley, and it's a modern one. :) I have also seen this stone circle on a walk towards Rockley, well known only to local people. It raises the question again (I've waffled on about it before) of how these 'modern' circles are identified in the future - particularly where sarsen stone is used as the stones themselves have been lying around for thousands of years. There are a few of them in the area though mainly in back gardens - the one at Alton Barnes visible from the path across the field springs to mind. Talking of springs ...
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embryonomore 853 posts |
Mar 04, 2013, 09:11
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Thanks for the info folks. Sorry to hear people are littering the countryside with bogus circles. I had no idea they were doing that. I'll inform my walking companion that those 'vibes' they were picking up were just a placebo effect.
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nigelswift 8112 posts |
Mar 04, 2013, 09:27
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"I'll inform my walking companion that those 'vibes' they were picking up were just a placebo effect." I have a suspicion that there is a genuine placebo effect at work at many circles whether old or modern, arising from a pleasing proportionality. If you erected a stone circle in a shopping centre it may well be appreciated as a pleasing haven in which people would like to eat their sandwiches or read a book. But it has to be the right size and spacing. Yes? No?
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Sanctuary 4670 posts |
Mar 04, 2013, 11:08
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nigelswift wrote: "I'll inform my walking companion that those 'vibes' they were picking up were just a placebo effect." I have a suspicion that there is a genuine placebo effect at work at many circles whether old or modern, arising from a pleasing proportionality. If you erected a stone circle in a shopping centre it may well be appreciated as a pleasing haven in which people would like to eat their sandwiches or read a book. But it has to be the right size and spacing. Yes? No? I'd go along with that and even suggest that's why many were erected where they are in the first place because of it, not because it came afterwards.
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VBB 558 posts |
Mar 04, 2013, 12:02
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Sanctuary wrote: nigelswift wrote: "I'll inform my walking companion that those 'vibes' they were picking up were just a placebo effect." I have a suspicion that there is a genuine placebo effect at work at many circles whether old or modern, arising from a pleasing proportionality. If you erected a stone circle in a shopping centre it may well be appreciated as a pleasing haven in which people would like to eat their sandwiches or read a book. But it has to be the right size and spacing. Yes? No? I'd go along with that and even suggest that's why many were erected where they are in the first place because of it, not because it came afterwards. There's nothing the builders wanted more than to get away from all those shops! Clearly why Avebury and Stonehenge weren't put up in Marlborough or Salisbury.
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bladup 1986 posts |
Edited Mar 04, 2013, 12:08
Mar 04, 2013, 12:07
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VBB wrote: Sanctuary wrote: nigelswift wrote: "I'll inform my walking companion that those 'vibes' they were picking up were just a placebo effect." I have a suspicion that there is a genuine placebo effect at work at many circles whether old or modern, arising from a pleasing proportionality. If you erected a stone circle in a shopping centre it may well be appreciated as a pleasing haven in which people would like to eat their sandwiches or read a book. But it has to be the right size and spacing. Yes? No? I'd go along with that and even suggest that's why many were erected where they are in the first place because of it, not because it came afterwards. There's nothing the builders wanted more than to get away from all those shops! Clearly why Avebury and Stonehenge weren't put up in Marlborough or Salisbury. Haaaaaa, Haaaaaa : > } That made me laugh out loud.
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Sanctuary 4670 posts |
Mar 04, 2013, 12:09
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VBB wrote: Sanctuary wrote: nigelswift wrote: "I'll inform my walking companion that those 'vibes' they were picking up were just a placebo effect." I have a suspicion that there is a genuine placebo effect at work at many circles whether old or modern, arising from a pleasing proportionality. If you erected a stone circle in a shopping centre it may well be appreciated as a pleasing haven in which people would like to eat their sandwiches or read a book. But it has to be the right size and spacing. Yes? No? I'd go along with that and even suggest that's why many were erected where they are in the first place because of it, not because it came afterwards. There's nothing the builders wanted more than to get away from all those shops! Clearly why Avebury and Stonehenge weren't put up in Marlborough or Salisbury. Quite right too...they didn't have a Tesco there at the time :-) Pun permission granted.....
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Sanctuary 4670 posts |
Mar 04, 2013, 12:11
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bladup wrote: VBB wrote: Sanctuary wrote: nigelswift wrote: "I'll inform my walking companion that those 'vibes' they were picking up were just a placebo effect." I have a suspicion that there is a genuine placebo effect at work at many circles whether old or modern, arising from a pleasing proportionality. If you erected a stone circle in a shopping centre it may well be appreciated as a pleasing haven in which people would like to eat their sandwiches or read a book. But it has to be the right size and spacing. Yes? No? I'd go along with that and even suggest that's why many were erected where they are in the first place because of it, not because it came afterwards. There's nothing the builders wanted more than to get away from all those shops! Clearly why Avebury and Stonehenge weren't put up in Marlborough or Salisbury. Haaaaaa, Haaaaaa : > } That made me laugh out loud. Keep it down Paul, I heard you from Launceston :-)
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