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Littlestone 5386 posts |
Apr 30, 2005, 09:46
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> I would say that using them for the entrance could be particularly symbolic Yeah... didn't think of that. Alternatively, the stones could have just been seen as a ready source of building material - just as they were at Avebury.
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FourWinds 10943 posts |
Apr 30, 2005, 09:50
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Agreed. It's open to personal interpretation and preference. I actually go with your idea myself, but could accept a good theory about reverent reuse. Most of the early churches used doors that where in this style, but one of my favourites monolithic doorway is at Killevy in Armagh http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/3087
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fitzcoraldo 2709 posts |
Apr 30, 2005, 09:58
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Beautiful stone, lovely website "Children whose heads were passed through the hole were protected from scrofula" Scrofula - brilliant word, which I haven't for yearsl
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fitzcoraldo 2709 posts |
Apr 30, 2005, 10:00
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oops this should be further down the thread. This is what happens when the boss is skulks around trying to 'catch me at it'
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Littlestone 5386 posts |
Apr 30, 2005, 10:06
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http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/3087 Yikes! That is impressive.
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hamish 179 posts |
Apr 30, 2005, 10:07
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I don't think there are any stones there but Horfield parish church is said to be in a henge.Circular church yard and all. H
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hamish 179 posts |
Apr 30, 2005, 10:08
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Sorry,thats in mighty,mighty Bristol. H
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Littlestone 5386 posts |
May 01, 2005, 17:06
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Thanks for that info hamish - wil check it out.
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StoneLifter 1594 posts |
May 01, 2005, 17:14
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Bolton Parish Church is said to be built 'on the site of a burial mound'.
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FourWinds 10943 posts |
May 01, 2005, 20:02
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Downpatrick cathedral is built next to The Mound of Down, an ancient law hill.
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