Megalithic and Prehistoric Sites
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I'd guess all male, but only because I tend to look for width in my females.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I will not relay mrsb’s response to that. There are two each of Jean and Jeanne. I’d supposed there would be an inny or an outy, but I can’t really see either here.
cyberfairy
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belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
October 1 - free, open access to the alignments! Except there isn’t, or wasn’t this morning despite dozens of people milling around thinking the same thing.
Driving along they were open at Kerlescan. Or was it the one before, they are all starting to look a little alike.
Then back off to the ferry. With just time for a stop at La Roche-aux-Fees (near Rennes), a magnificent 3rd millennium BC dolmen. 41 stones, weighing up to 45 tonnes, 13 feet high and 64 feet long and with four chambers. It’s well impressive.
Driving along they were open at Kerlescan. Or was it the one before, they are all starting to look a little alike.
Then back off to the ferry. With just time for a stop at La Roche-aux-Fees (near Rennes), a magnificent 3rd millennium BC dolmen. 41 stones, weighing up to 45 tonnes, 13 feet high and 64 feet long and with four chambers. It’s well impressive.
bcuster
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In pictures: Easter Island statues damaged by fire
Many of the enigmatic stone-carved statues are "totally charred" according to local authorities.
www.bbc.com
ska invita
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Supposedly not that old , 400-1500 CEIn pictures: Easter Island statues damaged by fire
Many of the enigmatic stone-carved statues are "totally charred" according to local authorities.www.bbc.com
bcuster
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I’d’ve thought
far older…
Voley
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Very lucky to see this ancient site yesterday. A set of entrance graves on the uninhabited islands of Little Arthur, Middle Arthur and Great Arthur on the Isles of Scilly.
You need to befriend someone with a boat to get to them, and you need weather/tides to be in your favour. Cross these hurdles and you get three islands entirely to yourself, apart from the seals, and at least 6 Bronze Age burial sites.
After that, if tides allow, you should deffo go for a walk on Ganilly Sandbar because it won't be there in an hour or so, and you can do the full-on castaway thing for a bit before heading back to an inhabited island for a cup of tea and other modern conveniences.
Voley
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We also did a guided walk with Katharine Sawyer, a local archaeologist who - amongst other things - discussed this theory of Scilly being a place for Cornish Bronze Age folk to bury their dead.
It's not a theory she subscribes to, particularly, but there are a ridiculous amount of tombs on Scilly for a population that probably just numbered 2 or 3 hundred at the time.
I like the idea, myself, and there has been some Trevisker style pottery that you find in Cornwall found at Scillonian sites. The Winter Solstice sun drops right onto Scilly from Tregeseal Stone Circle on the mainland. Just a few bits and bobs that point to it being a possibility, nothing you could really describe as evidence.
As ever, more questions than answers. But I quite like that about prehistory- if we could explain it all, it wouldn't be as interesting.
It's not a theory she subscribes to, particularly, but there are a ridiculous amount of tombs on Scilly for a population that probably just numbered 2 or 3 hundred at the time.
I like the idea, myself, and there has been some Trevisker style pottery that you find in Cornwall found at Scillonian sites. The Winter Solstice sun drops right onto Scilly from Tregeseal Stone Circle on the mainland. Just a few bits and bobs that point to it being a possibility, nothing you could really describe as evidence.
As ever, more questions than answers. But I quite like that about prehistory- if we could explain it all, it wouldn't be as interesting.
ska invita
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Ive got a 'theory' relating to this....less a theory more a sense of understanding....I got to thinking about this watching a documentary about megalithic sites in the Hebrides.
There can be no doubt that the sun and its movements were central to ritual and life more broadly. This is to be expected for people living without electricity and forced to be in tune with natural cycles. Archaeological evidence found that some visitors to the Hebridean sites had come from as far as Denmark, suggesting it was a site worthy of travel to from afar. The Hebridean sites do seem to be particularly grand and special.
So why would you sail all that way?
Hebrides would've felt like the end of the earth. For many peoples Norway would've been unknown and this would've felt like the most northerly land possible to reach. At Solstice the sun would set later than anywhere in the british isles and rise earlier, and I dont know what its like but perhaps you might even get that never fully dark all-night dusky light you get in Norway in high summer. Without an understanding of astronomy this would've felt very special - even with that understanding its a wonderful thing.
The Scilly Isles have a similiar magic - the most westerly isles before the world ends and the endless sea begins - facing west its the land of the setting sun - synonymous with death also. If I had full freedom in my life Id be up in the Hebrides for summer solstice and at death would love to be burned on the Scilly Isles and generally pop down there for a feast and whatnot - all makes perfect sense to me.
* both beautiful, 'magical' looking places too - would love to know how they looked then
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Voley
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We're hoping to visit the Hebrides next Spring ska invita - Callanish looks incredible - I like the idea of having seen both ends of the British Isles' ancient sites.
These are my most Northerly and Southerly thus far:
These are my most Northerly and Southerly thus far:
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I’ve been there! When we stayed at St Buryan on holiday once. There was a massive dog (of I breed I’ll check with Mrs LR in a minute) lolloping around, seemingly on its own, and my kids wanted us to take it home and keep it. They assumed it was homeless and in need of a family. A man arrived driving a tractor at the gate, and the dog was clearly his, jumped into the cab with him, which was a bit of a squeeze but obviously something they were accustomed to, and the slowly drove off.
Thereafter the girls kept wanting to go back to the stone circle in case Big Dog (as we were now calling the dog) was there.
Great place for a wedding.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
*She can’t remember but says if someone say it she’ll recognise it. “It’s like a type of dinner. Hamburger or frankfurter”.
This is what I have to live with.
This is what I have to live with.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Leonberger!
Voley
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Schnauzer?*She can’t remember but says if someone say it she’ll recognise it. “It’s like a type of dinner. Hamburger or frankfurter”.
This is what I have to live with.
I always think that sounds like a type of sausage.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
The noisy little bastards next door may well end up in sausage.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Saw Sas on the thread and thought he’s be moaning that these vagabonds had placed stones in lovely, pristine fields….
Voley
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Should be shouldn't it? We're having a little ceremony there with close family ,then back to my Mum's for some food as she only lives a couple of miles away. Then we'll be heading up more your end of the country to see some of this stuff:
izz
Increased Leisure Citizen
Lush thanks ! I found the barrow rather eerie, finding offerings left fairly recently, things like fruit for instance.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Thanks for the great pics Voley
Like a good few folk, I suspect, it was West Kennet LB & the utterly amazing Avebury ring & avenue that first set me off on all this big rocks malarky. Took the kids into the barrow and they enjoyed the adventure so much that it took no persuasion to get them to schlep through loads of sites
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