Missing Monuments

juamei Jan 29, 2009 21:04:12

Can anyone explain why there are no circles in the south east of Britain? The medway tombs are pretty much the same styles as Wessex & they have the stone available.

Did Coldrum & the missing structures around the two springs replace them?

sam Jan 29, 2009 21:42:29

Replying to juamei

I can't answer that one, but on a similar note, often wondered why there are no dolmen-type burial chambers in cumbria - the rest of the West coast has them, but none (that I can think of) in Cumbria.

sam

dee Jan 29, 2009 23:15:43

Replying to juamei

Who knows. There may well have been circles but they were destroyed. Or maybe the Easties just built wooden ones like they did at Seahenge.....

Pilgrim Feb 3, 2009 11:28:00

Replying to juamei

....not so much missing monuments, but vanishing before our eyes....

As part of out 'ootnaboot' in sunnier times, we spot (or at least try to) the 70+ stone rows that are purported to exist on Dartmoor. Sadly, we find that a number have vanished beneath the camouflage of overgrowing gorse and scrub; I've been up and down the slopes of Leedon Tor so many times now that it's becoming a standing (stone) joke... I wonder if anyone else has noticed an increase in undergrowth threatening stones etc...? 'Celebrity' sites like the Plague Rows at Merrivale are safe, but the 'less well-known' sites seem to be suffering.

I believe that the National Park policy has been changed (2006?) to restrict grazing animals on t'moor, and wonder if this goes hand in hand.....

Peace

Pilgrim