juamei wrote:
Mustard wrote:
juamei wrote:
The land drained for farming was transformed for profit. Monks and Romans were very big on making money.
You've hit the nail on the head there. If they were putting the effort in to create the dyke system throughout the levels, why ignore the hill in their midst.
Because the levels were drained for grazing land - not for agriculture. You don't need to terrace the tor to throw a few cows on it.
But you do to get more land for crops... Maybe we should agree to disagree, I'm becoming circular. :-)
I'd love to agree to disagree, but Glastonbury simply didn't require the land for food production to support its population. If the motive was profit, the returns would hardly have been worth the investment, and the monks were busy (as you pointed out) draining the levels for the much more lucrative production of of meat, dairy and woollen products. Terracing the tor for agricultural reasons just doesn't make sense. Whether a maze or other neolithic terracing makes any more sense is another matter. :)
