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tiompan Dec 9, 2011 13:34:32
Replying to moss

moss wrote:
Not sure if Hardy's house Max Gate was built on top of a neolithic monument, but there was a megalithic stone unearthed, which gave rise to the poem "The Shadow of the Stone".
Mandatory pic of Stonehenge on the front...

http://www.plodit.com/buy-a-distant-prospect-of-wessex-archaeology-and-t--9781905739417.html

Max Gate and garden is built on what is left of the Flagstones enclosure , a twin of the early phase 1 Stonehenge . The rest of it was removed for the Dorchester bypass . The monument had a burial at it's centre sealed by a large sarsen and when Max Gate was being built a sarsen was found covering charred bones ,both stones were used as garden features .

L Littlestone
Littlestone Dec 9, 2011 14:19:12
Replying to tiompan

Interesting stuff Mr t and RE!

The poem’s here if anyone’s interested (bottom of the page) along with a pic of the stone by Gerald Ponting. Gerald comments that, " I was at Max Gate recently, the house on the outskirts of Dorchester where Hardy lived much of his later life. There are two sarsens which Hardy had set up in the garden, not in original situ, but geophys studies when the nearby by-pass was created suggested that they had been part of a 'Neolithic enclosure'. The poem is... basically him imagining a shadow of his late wife."

M moss
moss Dec 9, 2011 15:43:09
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
moss wrote:
http://www.plodit.com/buy-a-distant-prospect-of-wessex-archaeology-and-t--9781905739417.html
Max Gate and garden is built on what is left of the Flagstones enclosure , a twin of the early phase 1 Stonehenge . The rest of it was removed for the Dorchester bypass . The monument had a burial at it's centre sealed by a large sarsen and when Max Gate was being built a sarsen was found covering charred bones ,both stones were used as garden features .
Well a bit of detective work unearths Flagstone enclosure on TMA,

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/13021/flagstones.html;

plus the review mentions you could see Conquer barrow (framed by the drawing room window of Max Gate house) until it got covered by trees, as it is today..
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/83647/conquer_barrow.html

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