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Boreades


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Some people on some other sites just don't like the idea of Ley Lines at all. For example, Stephen Tonkin:

http://astunit.com/astrocrud.php?topic=silbury




The critical analysis is done via six-figure OS coordinates of each location. But that is methodologically suspect in itself, because OS coordinates refer to the corner of a square that a location is in. i.e. an approximation. To see how well these points really align, I've added them to my Google Earth "My Places" collection.

A line from Avebury to Hengistbury goes right through West Kennet Longbarrow, Casterley Camp and the middle of Old Sarum (not mentioned on Stephen Tonkin's list).



The hilltop places seem to align better than the henges. If anyone wants to play with the alignments, I have all the places available in a Google Earth KMZ file, including the ones I gave Hattie for the Michael Line wanderings.
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Boreades


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Heading south...

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Mick Harper
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There's about a hundred zillion things to research on this page, so get to it!

http://fen-lander.hubpages.com/hub/The-Ley-Lines-and-Lost-Past-Of-North-Kent
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Mick Harper
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The mob are finally catching up with us:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/10367457/Roman-roads-were-actually-built-by-the-Celts-new-book-claims.html
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Ishmael


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Pretty soon they may wonder if the Romans aren't entirely superfluous to history!
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Hatty
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Graham Robb's book 'The Ancient Paths' was reviewed with gusto in The Guardian by someone called Tom Shippey who turns out to be an Anglo-Saxon and Eng Lit scholar.

This Shippey appears to believe that pre-Roman roads in Britain is a brand-new notion and undermines the book's entire premise by suggesting the Druids belong to popular imagination. He obviously feels more comfortable with Middle Earth, being a Tolkein specialist.
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Boreades


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Ishmael wrote:
Pretty soon they may wonder if the Romans aren't entirely superfluous to history!


This author certainly does!

The UnRoman History of Britain.

I quote:

Roman Britain is usually thought of as a land full of togas, towns and baths with Britons happily going about their Roman lives under the benign gaze of Rome. This is, to a great extent, a myth that developed after Roman control of Britain came to an end, in particular when the British Empire was at its height in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In fact, Britain was one of the least enthusiastic elements of the Roman Empire. The northern part of Britain was never conquered at all despite repeated attempts. Some Britons adopted Roman ways in order to advance themselves and become part of the new order, or just because they liked the new range of products available. However, many failed to acknowledge the Roman lifestyle at all, while many others were only outwardly Romanised, clinging to their own identities under the occupation. Britain never fully embraced the Empire and was itself never fully accepted by the rest of the Roman world. Even the Roman army in Britain became chronically rebellious and a source of instability that ultimately affected the whole Empire. As Roman power weakened, the Britons abandoned both Rome and almost all Roman culture, and the island became a land of warring kingdoms, as it had been before.
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Boreades


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That looks very promising.
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Ishmael


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Boreades wrote:
I quote: As Roman power weakened, the Britons abandoned both Rome and almost all Roman culture, and the island became a land of warring kingdoms, as it had been before.


It's enough to make you wonder if the Romans had ever really been there.
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Mick Harper
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Watching a programme about Catching Scammers (a weakness of mine), this image appeared:



Heigh ho, I thought, that's an artificial island. And sure enough the building on the top turned out to be a St Michael's Chapel. The 'island' is Rame Head and its obvious Megalithic antecedents can be inspected here:

http://www.historic-cornwall.org.uk/a2m/iron_age/cliff_castle/rame_head/rame_head.htm
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Rame in AE is 'shout' - from a lookout perhaps? The view from the top of the mound is exceptional and on a clear day you can see all the way along the coast to the Lizard.

If it had a whitewashed stone monolith on top, instead of a chapel, it would be visible from the sea for miles around. With a big bonfire on top and a couple of under-cliff roaring blow holes, navigation to the safe harbour at Cawsand would be a doodle any time of day.

Great Mewstone island off Wembury Point, just a couple of miles away from Rame, looks artificial too...

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Rame in AE is 'shout' - from a lookout perhaps?


I thought 'mew' might be to do with seagulls mewing but more to the point a mews means 'a cage for hawks' hence royal mews which were not just for horses. Certainly the Mewstone is a useful landmark for sailors avoiding the Great Mewstone Reef.

I posted about Rame Head (in 'Comments on Tin Exporting') which will be in Part 3 of the Megalithic talk; on the opposite (eastern) side of the entrance to Plymouth harbour to Mewstone, it seems to fit with a Megalithic-style layout (cf. Pendennis and St Mawes at Falmouth harbour). Just the other day googling 'Ramsgate' (because of a 51st latitude link), I found etymologists claiming the rams bit derives from an A-S word for raven (something like hraefen I think it was, I can never get my head round these words).
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Mick Harper
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A Cruciform Passage Grave heavily decorated with rock art in Anglesey. This outstanding location, which translates as Giantess Apronful (another being situated near Conwy), is NW of Aberffraw and S Rhosneigr, off the A4080.

This is the third (and fourth) reference I have come across re megaliths being produced by giant(esse)s with aprons. Usually the stones fall out accidentally when the giant(ess) is running for some reason. This motif seems both sufficiently ubiquitous and sufficiently weird to demand an explanation. Theories, anyone?
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Ishmael


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Running with an Apron...

Sounds Masonic.

Also reminds me, for some reason, of Mark 14:51-52

And there followed Him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him. And he left the linen cloth and fled from them naked.
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Tilo Rebar


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Mick Harper wrote:
This is the third (and fourth) reference I have come across re megaliths being produced by giant(esse)s...

Could be how the local yokels described the tall primitive wooden tower cranes that the Masons of Megalithic Construction Inc used to move spoil and lift the stones into place. The cranes would probably have used oxen for motive power.
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