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| Just back from 2 weeks cycing in the monsoons of Pembrokeshire (I'll post the field notes once I've typed them up). There's some debate over the cromlechs of South & West Wales. Given that they're all bare rock, did they ever have covering mounds? Some esteemed folks like Chris Barber say that uncovered ones are so prevalent that they were surely built that way. They also point to several that are on ledges too narrow to have ever had mounds. In The Modern Antiquarian, Cope refutes that idea, and suggests a later cult of uncovereing the mounded tombs. The ones on narrow ledges tend to be ‘earth-fast’ cromlechs, one side of the capstone resting on the ground. Children & Nash ('Neolithic Sites of Camarthenshire, Cardiganshire & Pembrokeshire', 1997) say this form of cromlech came later than the other cromlechs. Could the earth-fast builders, with their belief in cromlechs of stone open to the sky, be that later cult Cope theorised about? Reply | with quote | Posted by Merrick 29th August 2004ce 22:42 |
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