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Littlestone Dec 6, 2007 08:55:24
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Mornin' tiompan.

You may have seen it by now but both versions of Emmeline Fisher's Silbury poem are now in http://www.britarch.ac.uk/BA/ba98/prerelease.shtml online edition of the latest British Archaeology Magazine. There are some differences in the first version of the poem left in Silbury in 1849 and the (revised) version published in the 1854 edition of the Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine. Mike Pitts has highlighted the differences between the two versions (though there are some minor mistakes in the highlighting in the online page above).

I'll stick both versions on the Megalithic Poems thread eventually.

M moss
moss Dec 6, 2007 09:21:32
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Thanks for the link Littlestone. Interesting idea on the Southey poem, about there being an Age of Fire (cremation) and an Age of Hills. There was an enormous output of written work during the victorian age, there fingers must have ached from the constant scribbling to record for posterity... like the idea of the savages of those bleak downlands burning their dead in some druidical ritual, it gives a new meaning to Silbury...

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tiompan Dec 6, 2007 16:47:16
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Littlestone wrote:
Mornin' tiompan.

You may have seen it by now but both versions of Emmeline Fisher's Silbury poem are now in http://www.britarch.ac.uk/BA/ba98/prerelease.shtml online edition of the latest British Archaeology Magazine. There are some differences in the first version of the poem left in Silbury in 1849 and the (revised) version published in the 1854 edition of the Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine. Mike Pitts has highlighted the differences between the two versions (though there are some minor mistakes in the highlighting in the online page above).

I'll stick both versions on the Megalithic Poems thread eventually.

Thanks LS ,I hadn't seen it .