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Edited Jul 29, 2014, 15:06

Re: wittenham clumps and didcot towers

Jul 29, 2014, 14:55

Rhiannon wrote:

it's not the scientific x metres by y that are so important, it's they're bound up with cultural meanings. And even if we don't know what those meanings were when the sites were created, the sites have new meanings today.

The actual measures of the vast majority of prehistoric sites are unlikely to have mattered to the builders , despite the beliefs of metrologists or those seeking some interrelationship between sites ,look hard enough and ye will find some apparently auspicious measure .
But as a description they are harmless and like grid refs ,potentially useful in the future to avoid confusion between sites and provide info re. extent . These details will remain while the personal beliefs about the sites will change ,"the devil/fairies did it " , "it's a computer / related to the punters beliefs about the cosmos ", "get your free energy here " , " enemies were buried here " etc ., which tells us about the beliefs of the observer ,which is great , but not much about the monument .

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wittenham clumps and didcot towers – Rhiannon, Jul 29, 2014, 14:11


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