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tjj Nov 28, 2007 19:49:47
Replying to Paulus

Very intersting Paulus and thanks, my imagination is now working overtime.

Why would there be three small sarsens inside Silbury? According to the 'The Mysteries of Britain" by Lewis Spence - three was a sacred number to the pre-christian Britains and an important part of Bardo-Druidic philosophy, all the laws were in triads.

I am wondering if the three sarsens repesented something as in the examples below:-

"The three immovable and perfect rocks on which the judgement of the world are sustained: the poet, the written word and nature" (Irish triad from Senchus Mor).

Or "love, knowledge, truth" (the three attributes of God) but we can only speculate and I really hope that some the others who have already contributed so much to this debate have some theories to throw into the mixing pot as well.

Did your contacts say where the sarsens originated - are they the same stones that lie scattered across Fyfield Down?

regards
june

M moss
moss Nov 29, 2007 05:47:40
Replying to tjj

Hi June, I suspect small sarsens are found in many of the monuments around Avebury. Windmill Hill has them in the ditches as does the Palisaded enclosures, in this instance they were used as packing stones round the posts.
Dean Merewether in his excavation of 1849 seems to have come across them, to quote Pollard;
"Observations during the 1849 excavations suggest this mound was edged with sarsens"
Edging or kerbing with stones around barrows can be found round this part of Somerset, Wick barrow had a stone wall built around it which was covered with earth as soon as it was built....