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The Eternal Nov 19, 2006 21:51:26
Replying to moss

Moss,

It does make you wonder if it was peculiar to an island people. But surely the people of Cornwall would have known about the islands. Was it a people who had migrated west from Britain (just like the migration from France to Britain), or was it people who had migrated east from Ireland? The passage graves were very distinctive.

Regards,
TE.

M Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead Nov 20, 2006 08:18:34
Replying to The Eternal

The sea levels would definatly have been lower 4000 years ago making the islands more prominant from the mainland. Today they are very hard to make out unless you know where to look. Were they seen as somewhere safe to bury the dead, away from your enemys who might descicrate the graves on the mainland? Were they seen as a mystical land inhabited by gods who would look after the dead.

And nobody has mentioned Lyonesse, where did the varous legends originate? This fabled land that is now under the sea somewhere of Lands End must have its origins somewhere....or is it all just a load of romantic rubbish?

Mr H

F FourWinds
FourWinds Nov 20, 2006 09:03:41
Replying to The Eternal

The Eternal wrote:
Was it a people who had migrated west from Britain (just like the migration from France to Britain), or was it people who had migrated east from Ireland?
I have a radical (yet obvious) theory about this in relation to the Scilly/Waterford link that I'll include in my next book - Monu-Mental About Prehistoric Waterford. I think I know the reason for the enormous amount of tombs on Scilly.