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FourWinds F
FourWinds Sep 13, 2006 13:23:01
Replying to mercian

The National Museum of Ireland has a couple of Iron Age wooden idols that were found in peat bogs. They're rather splendid, especially the one with the hole in its groin, which was either a vagina or a socket for a phallus. Most people go for the latter, but there's no reason to suggest that this figure wasn't a wooden fore-runner of the Sheilas.

L Littlestone
Littlestone Sep 13, 2006 13:50:03
Replying to FourWinds

There's something similar at the Colchester Castle Museum called the Dagenham Idol; made of pine and thought to be over 4,000 years old. There's a pic of it here -

http://www.colchestermuseums.org.uk/castle/castle_topten1.html

M moss
moss Sep 13, 2006 14:34:58
Replying to FourWinds

Think the Sweet Track in Somerset had some as well, as votive offering, presumably iron age, can't find it on the web but have seen a picture somewhere. Not to go too deeply into the subject, there's also phallic stone heads around these parts as well.....

V Vicster
Vicster Sep 13, 2006 14:57:25
Replying to FourWinds

FourWinds wrote:
The National Museum of Ireland has a couple of Iron Age wooden idols that were found in peat bogs. They're rather splendid, especially the one with the hole in its groin, which was either a vagina or a socket for a phallus. Most people go for the latter, but there's no reason to suggest that this figure wasn't a wooden fore-runner of the Sheilas.
It also houses that ENORMOUS Bronze Age canoe which totally blew my mind....it is huge! Mind you, it is also unfinished which made me think the builders went " agh it's just too big, it's never gonna work!" ;-)

Vx