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Siting of Nant Tarw monuments — coincidence?

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thesweetcheat Mar 6, 2016 21:19:32
Replying to tiompan

Sometimes the siting must surely be because "it's a nice spot" though, mustn't it? I don't believe every prehistoric site is there because it has an alignment, celestial or earthly. Sometimes they're just in the *right* place.

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tiompan Mar 6, 2016 23:31:18
Replying to thesweetcheat

thesweetcheat wrote:
Sometimes the siting must surely be because "it's a nice spot" though, mustn't it? I don't believe every prehistoric site is there because it has an alignment, celestial or earthly. Sometimes they're just in the *right* place.
That was almost my point . Alignments referencing landscape features or the heavens are a mid 20th C view and doesn't seem to be supported by the evidence . So often the reason for choosing the spot was related to what had happened in the past i.e. before the megalithic or earthen monument .
"Stone circles " can just be the last building done on a site that had previously seen earlier activity .

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