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What criteria for a natural TMA monument?

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tiompan Jan 5, 2011 10:09:17
Replying to moss

moss wrote:
Not sure if this link has appeared but it relates to Jamie's swallets on the Mendips, Jodie Lewis (Capra) http://capra.group.shef.ac.uk/2/upwards.html.
Given that the Mendips is a fascinating place with caves.swallets, gorges and underground river/s, there seems to be evidence of deposition of an axe, etc in the Brimble swallet. Similar to the shaft on Martin Green's Down farm, which is mentioned in the concluding paragraph....
Apart from the aforementioned .
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?thread=60988&message=773607 which covers the natural and built distinction .
J ohn Barnatt and Mark Edmonds did a a paper for the CAJ "Places apart ? Caves and monuments in Neolithic and earlier Bronze Age Britain " which is about deposition in natural places mostly the peak district but they also refer to Gop Cairn .

M moss
moss Jan 5, 2011 12:56:57
Replying to tiompan

And just to get back to shakeholes and stones George;

Bradley uses a better term for 'sacred' which is 'significant' and which he used for his later book; the shakehole is a significant marking of the landscape.... Given the fact that 'deposition' can take the place of 'ritual offering', and that ancestral and landscape memory become part of the backcloth of interpretation for the neolithic and bronze ages , its a flipping minefield and thats not counting in the stars, moon and sun.
Marking of the landscape; for me, the Carn Meini outcrop has very significant factors in the surrounding land, the natural carns look very much like longbarrows -the landscape has become ancestral. Hamish said somewhere that the capstones of the cromlechs on Anglesey echoed the shape of the mountain tops which has been said by others.......