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Burl and his sources

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Kammer Jun 18, 2003 12:07:09

Replying to Rhiannon

This isn't the first time I've run into strange Burl related stuff. Apparently he describes Banc Rhosgoch Fach as a stone row, but as far as I can see (almost) nobody else does...

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/browse.php?site_id=2760

The Megalithic Portal has gone with Burl's description of this site, but having visited it I can't see any reason to doubt the records I've seen at the NMRW interpreting it as the remains of a dolmen (their words not mine FW).

Kammer x

Chris Collyer Jun 18, 2003 18:55:27

Replying to Kammer

Yep, he does sometimes throw up something that makes you stop and think ‘are you sure about that?’ but then again he’s the expert not me. Mindyou I still don’t understand why he thinks the Stonehenge bluestones got there by glaciation…

-Chris

Grendel Jun 18, 2003 19:22:40

Replying to Kammer

Burl has undoubtedly visited a great many sites but for others he has relied on published (and often antiquarian) accounts.

His rating of Moseley Heights stone circle in Lancashire suggests an excellent circle is to be found. In reality the field is empty but the circle did exist in the 1950's.