juamei wrote:
slumpystones wrote:
And of course, they are older than the rest of the chambered tombs too...imagine, these could be the oldest recorded rock art in the country!
Dunno about the medway tombs age (certainly coldrum is an oddity shape wise compared to the other megalithic tombs I've seen in the south) but the oldest RA in this country is surely the pecked mesolithic animals at Cresswell Crags?
Just a side note - Coldrum, according to Paul Ashbee, was possibly truncated by destroying the mound and dragging the stones closer together. Myself, I lean towards a group of shorter barrows, along the design of Chestnuts and Lower Kits Coty, with Coldrum being possibly halfway between those and the typical long barrow shape. I have two further possible barrow sites on the west side to have another look at [one earthen or robbed and one megalithic] when the crops are gone, plus at least another nearer the river, plus what looks like a pair of parallel ditches but finding the time is killing me, all I want to do is go stone-hopping...who invented work?
