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bladup 1986 posts |
Edited Mar 29, 2013, 17:20
Mar 29, 2013, 17:18
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Heee he, no but to use a little fear to get our date:>}but on a serious note the place does stand out because we can guess quite well compared to other places how old the Stone circles,henges, barrows, standing stones and Quoits around are but KAH has no comparison so we can't guess beyond things like stone shapes and position in the landscape which we've done yourselves, this is the case for a date i'd be putting forward Roy and i can't see how they could disagree with that reasoning, and if you could get a date from them it would be a big scoop for any future book you may do on the place.
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Sanctuary 4670 posts |
Mar 29, 2013, 17:37
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bladup wrote: Heee he, no but to use a little fear to get our date:>}but on a serious note the place does stand out because we can guess quite well compared to other places how old the Stone circles,henges, barrows, standing stones and Quoits around are but KAH has no comparison so we can't guess beyond things like stone shapes and position in the landscape which we've done yourselves, this is the case for a date i'd be putting forward Roy and i can't see how they could disagree with that reasoning, and if you could get a date from them it would be a big scoop for any future book you may do on the place. That fact alone that it really is like nothing else seems to indicate to some people that it is not important but the selection of stones and its position in the landscape tells me a different story. When you stand on the north bank and realise what's around you stone circle wise to the north, east and south, with the stone littered hill to the west at Candra with cut stones lying around, you get a feeling of the importance of what you're stood on. But then 'feelings' aren't proof of anything of course as has been pointed out before but nevertheless we still get them.
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bladup 1986 posts |
Mar 29, 2013, 17:52
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Well beyond stone shapes the best case i can make for it having a neolithic/bronze age date is i once spent over a week walking from one neolithic/Bronze age site to the next on Bodmin moor and all i can say is it fitted in perfectly with everywhere else of a neolithic/bronze age date even though it was very different to anywhere else around, if i had to put forward my thoughts on what it is, i'd go for one hell of a big mortuary enclosure, a place were the bodies of the dead were left for the animals and birds to help in the defleshing process ready for the bones to be interred or cremated at one of the nearby barrows after been taken for rituals at the stone circles beforehand, it's good for the mind to speculate [or remember, whichever you choose].
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harestonesdown 1067 posts |
Mar 29, 2013, 18:22
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Sanctuary wrote: The Trethevy Quoit book is now available and can be obtained through its own dedicated website http://trethevyquoit.moonfruit.com/ And a Review can be read here:- http://wp.me/p20lE0-1pm Roy Good luck with it Roy. I'll be very interested on people's opinions once they get the gist of your theory. ;)
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Sanctuary 4670 posts |
Mar 29, 2013, 18:54
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harestonesdown wrote: Sanctuary wrote: The Trethevy Quoit book is now available and can be obtained through its own dedicated website http://trethevyquoit.moonfruit.com/ And a Review can be read here:- http://wp.me/p20lE0-1pm Roy Good luck with it Roy. I'll be very interested on people's opinions once they get the gist of your theory. ;) Thanks Geoff.
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bladup 1986 posts |
Mar 30, 2013, 01:54
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Do you think there was a link between Trethevy Quoit and it's people and Zennor Quoit and it's people, they certainly feel very linked to me, In time/age and construction, I just wondered how if any the people of the 2 sites were linked in your opinion?
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harestonesdown 1067 posts |
Edited Mar 30, 2013, 03:51
Mar 30, 2013, 03:42
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Sanctuary wrote: harestonesdown wrote: Sanctuary wrote: The Trethevy Quoit book is now available and can be obtained through its own dedicated website http://trethevyquoit.moonfruit.com/ And a Review can be read here:- http://wp.me/p20lE0-1pm Roy Good luck with it Roy. I'll be very interested on people's opinions once they get the gist of your theory. ;) Thanks Geoff. No worries. And at the risk of being labelled elbow deep in your anal tract :P It's genuinely worth a read ! Even if someone tears it to bits with something fundamental i've missed. Would have liked the stones measurements though. ;) I'll just add - Those with preconceived expectations will be surprised here, I was. ;) And though we've had our "differences" in the past Roy i sincerely hope this reaches the intended audience for perusal. The next Stonehenge granary it aint ! Edited to add: I very much believe the onus will be on people to prove you wrong on this, something that was the other way round with ALIW, given what i've seen via e-mail.
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Sanctuary 4670 posts |
Mar 30, 2013, 07:35
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harestonesdown wrote: Sanctuary wrote: harestonesdown wrote: Sanctuary wrote: The Trethevy Quoit book is now available and can be obtained through its own dedicated website http://trethevyquoit.moonfruit.com/ And a Review can be read here:- http://wp.me/p20lE0-1pm Roy Good luck with it Roy. I'll be very interested on people's opinions once they get the gist of your theory. ;) Thanks Geoff. No worries. And at the risk of being labelled elbow deep in your anal tract :P It's genuinely worth a read ! Even if someone tears it to bits with something fundamental i've missed. Would have liked the stones measurements though. ;) I'll just add - Those with preconceived expectations will be surprised here, I was. ;) And though we've had our "differences" in the past Roy i sincerely hope this reaches the intended audience for perusal. The next Stonehenge granary it aint ! Edited to add: I very much believe the onus will be on people to prove you wrong on this, something that was the other way round with ALIW, given what i've seen via e-mail. Thanks again Geoff...I assume the cheque has arrived :-) I have no doubts in my mind at all about what's happened at the quoit as the evidence speaks for itself but as all things prehistoric, there will always be arguments against and I'm fine with that. I've done my part, let others now go out and show I'm wrong. A Lady in Waiting was a different ball game altogether. I could prove nothing there but I still hold by my basic belief that Avebury is laid out in component parts to represent a vast pregnant female earth figure. Not a Goddess as others claimed I did in an attempt to belittle me as I never once mentioned that. Of course they were the ones who never read it yet had the most to say which is par for the course :-) It was what I felt they may have done with the figure once built that was the sticking point as it was pure speculation, but the book title had indicated that...A Lady in Waiting...AN explanation of the Avebury Complex...not THE explanation. I should have left it at the figure only stage and let others decide what happened afterwards because I have received many many compliments on that side of things but not the other. I'm fine with all of that but I had a go which is the important thing as it introduced a further element into the Avebury mystery. The most pleasing thing though is that it is still selling, not just for financial reasons, but for giving lovers of Avebury an opportunity to think outside of the box. The Stonehenge fiasco is continually showing us that all is not as they keep saying it is there with ever changing beliefs. Mine was just another on Avebury. Some bits will turn out to be true, others not so would be my guess :-) All of that apart I still do what all should do if humanly possible...get out there at every opportunity because there is still much to discover (especially here over Bodmin's moors) that others haven't. The day I can't do that anymore is the day that a great light in my life will be extinguished. I guess I speak for many of us there!
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Littlestone 5386 posts |
Mar 30, 2013, 11:57
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Sanctuary wrote: The Trethevy Quoit book is now available and can be obtained through its own dedicated website http://trethevyquoit.moonfruit.com/ And a Review can be read here:- http://wp.me/p20lE0-1pm Roy Many congrats on your book Mr S. Though we’d had a sneak preview it was great to get our hands on the real thing. Well done, highly recommended, and one more feather in the cap of the amateur archaeologist/researcher :-)
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Sanctuary 4670 posts |
Mar 30, 2013, 13:20
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Littlestone wrote: Sanctuary wrote: The Trethevy Quoit book is now available and can be obtained through its own dedicated website http://trethevyquoit.moonfruit.com/ And a Review can be read here:- http://wp.me/p20lE0-1pm Roy Many congrats on your book Mr S. Though we’d had a sneak preview it was great to get our hands on the real thing. Well done, highly recommended, and one more feather in the cap of the amateur archaeologist/researcher :-) Thanks LS. I think your last comment strikes home the most. I get a huge kick out of researching and although often there is no way of proving much of what we as amateurs 'discover', or think we discover, we must have nevertheless been responsible for a fair bit of professional attention over the years based on some of that research.
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