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Priddy Circles

Priddy Henges

Pete G P
Pete G Dec 2, 2003 11:39:04
Replying to Steve Gray

I can't see the Priddy henges resembling the Pleiades.
There is the curious traditions among the hill folk of Somerset relate that Joseph, after first seeking tin from
the Scillies (islands) and Cornwall, came to the Mendips and was accompanied on several occassions by the boy Jesus. At the parish Church of Priddy, high on top
of the Mendips, they have an old saying: 'As sure as our Lord was at Priddy.' And a carol sung be the children of Priddy begins: "Joseph was a tin merchant, a tin
merchant, a tin merchant, and goes on to describe him arriving from the sea in a boat."
Just to confuse matters even more.
PeteG

F fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Dec 2, 2003 12:55:45
Replying to Pete G

Considering that the Priddy landscape is pock-marked with lead workings dating from the roman to the medieval periods, it's not an unreasonable supposition that merchants from around the roman world visited the area.
I found a reference to Gorsey Bigbury near Longwood Farm in the parish of Charterhouse which has a similar enclosure 160 ft across ditch inside the bank & one entrance with a horseshoe setting of postholes within.

J jimit
jimit Dec 2, 2003 14:31:34
Replying to Pete G

My fraternal grandmother was born in Priddy (nee Cox, any relation to show cave owner in Cheddar I don't know), wish I'd listened to her stories when she dandled me on her knee :(

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