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fitzcoraldo Mar 29, 2003 20:59:48
Replying to Annexus Quam

Lo AQ
There is rock art south of the pennines.
It would be rather boring to list them all here so I'll send you some info by e-mail.
I can recommend Richard Bradley's book "Rock Art and the Prehistory of Atlantic Europe". It was written in '97 so is not bang up to date on all the British sites but it provides a good overview of rock art from the Iberian peninsular to Scotland.
If it's just British stuff you want check Stan Beckensall's book "British Prehistoric Rock Art" ....soon to be a database!
Also if you check out this site http://groups.msn.com/rockartinthebritishlandscape/home.msnw
Apart from being a good site, there are some excellent links to sites further afield.
Happy hunting matey

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Annexus Quam Mar 30, 2003 11:27:46
Replying to fitzcoraldo

Thanks Fitz, I knew you'd come up with something good. I've seen the link, I look forward to the rest of the information! I'm also trying to establish links with earlier art with which I know there's a link!! Like the ochre used by those earlier humans, it was still used to paint objects and orthostats within passage graves afterwards. Let me know when Stan's book becomes a database (on the web I guess?).

Question: have any idols ever been found at the entrances of Irish passage graves or is there any evidence ? You know the ones, rough decorated stones that have a particularly human shape. They used to do that in ancient Japan too, even the early Romans kept little statues of their ancestors.

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