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The Thornborough Henges

Ancient Name for Thornborough area?

Pigeon P
Pigeon Sep 21, 2004 22:14:40
Replying to BrigantesNation

Thank you for all these leads and for explaining in more detail -i'll try to get my head around all of this, and you have all provided some very useful details for me to follow.

Thank you

Jaq

S StoneLifter
StoneLifter Sep 21, 2004 23:37:12
Replying to Pigeon

Thorn used to be a letter in both the Scandinavian and Old English tongues, representing the sound 'th'. The, that, this, there, thistle (and so on. It's rune three. Also Thor has Norse meaning of thunder.

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