Druids Folly

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tjj May 16, 2010 19:50:28
Replying to faerygirl

faerygirl wrote:
moss wrote:
faerygirl wrote:
The Druids Folly in York

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=4138

Is not labled on TMA. I'm guessing because its a newer addition. However, If you look on the Freemasons Pages, there is an understanding that its builder, William Danby was part of the organisation and the Folly was built for use (in a Druidy kind of way I guess) or as homage to other stone temples.

So, I guess my question is "Does the fact thats its only 200 years old make it a folly?" We give quite a wide age range for stone circles and monoliths around the world, some suggestions of around a 2000year gap between the really old ones and the not-so-old-but-still-pretty-old ones. Does that mean that when Stonehenge was built, the builders of Castlerigg or Sunkenkirk considered it nothing but a joke?

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It would definitely go under 'disputed antiquity' on this site! and it is a folly in true 'druidic' 18th century style - very pretty as well. There was a fashion for such things druidic/masonic. Stukeley made a circle in his garden as well by using hedging material, and I think a little roman temple, he buried a 'stillborn' baby in front of the altar, which I find a bit weird, or maybe in the centre of the circle......
Charming! Wasn't Stukeley a minister or something? Doesn't sound very Christian really...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/stukeley_william.shtml

I didn't know the bit about the stillborn baby - I guess in 'christian' terms it died before it was baptised so therefore couldn't be buried on consecrated ground (the churchyard).

B Branwen
Branwen May 17, 2010 12:43:46
Replying to tjj

Lots of customs from back then seem weird now. People making death masks and mementos out of hair and suchlike, I seem to recall. Didn't they have unbaptised corners in churchyards by then though, just outside the graveyard wall proper?