Re: Hills an' that | Forum — The Modern Antiquarian

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Hills an' that

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Hob Mar 29, 2005 23:03:45

Replying to Moth

>I can't remember seeing many without a 'significant hill' tho Hob!

I've made a promise to meself not to go on and on about the possible significance of hills to prehistoric monument builders.

We were just over at Castlerigg, and it all got a bit much...

…>Actually I seem to remember a few with more than one 'possible'!!

Know what you mean. Conwy? Tal-y-fan? Snowdonia? It's too much for the modern mind to take in I tell you.

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moss Mar 30, 2005 07:24:50

Replying to Hob

"its too much for the modern mind to take in"

significant hills also form the geography of the landscape, they don't have to be sacred in the modern context of religion. Hills could also be named, so that when a neolithic person was travelling, he would make for a certain hill that had particular shape, it would belong in the territory/area of clans or tribes. Slowly everything within the landscape would acquire a shape/name that was familar becoming part of a general mindset....