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Edited Feb 03, 2017, 07:23

Re: Change?

Feb 03, 2017, 07:20

Well this thread has really taken off, it should have subsets ;), notice Rhiannon mentions 'phenemonology' well this essay by the Urban Prehistorian should spark some thoughts.....

https://theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2017/01/21/selfish-walks/

In the end the 'wholeness' of the landscape is the thing that moves us, stone, water, mountains and of course the weather plays a significant role. The essay argues you can't get back to prehistory, viewing 3017 bc from 2017 ad is just a flight of fancy. What we do is look for clues in the landscape, try to marry them together. I just love the palimpsest of history, a river that has moved progressively over the centuries, an old well with a statue of Mary, barrows that follow the line of an older road. Saxon, Viking, Norman they tumble through the soil to earlier times, to old kingdoms forged out of the roman withdrawal, and did those kingdoms start from the aggressive Iron Age hill top forts. History is fluid, its pattern etched in the landscape.....

The Old Wife's well, has an ambiguity that says interpretation cannot be qualified into exactness, as the 'roman road' that is nearby is seen now as maybe a much earlier linear line on the landscape...

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6683/old_wifes_well.html

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