Re: Durrington Walls on TV today | Forum

moss May 17, 2006 07:36:41

Replying to nigelswift

Nothing was said about Woodhenge's relationship to Durrington and all those huts maybe gives the lie to the term "sacred space within a henge. Also, being critical this morning, Robinson's idea of all that colour - just where did they get purple, etc, and great flags flying between the posts - doubt if they could have woven something fine as that. Reconstructional work is best seen through drawings and paintings - the spirit can be captured more easily, Poor old pigs always get the worst of it for being so tasty - pity they are quite intelligent creatures.....

nigelswift May 17, 2006 07:49:17

Replying to moss

Flags are a bit of a leap of imagination, without the least evidence I agree. But if they had huge great timber posts then that they carved them and coloured them seems quite a reasonable guess. It fits rather better with the finding of ritual deposits in the post holes hundreds of years later, to commemorate the post had once been there. If each post had been a spectacular work of art, or even a deity, that would explain the longevity of reverence towards it more convincingly.

tiompan May 17, 2006 08:00:04

Replying to moss

" just where did they get purple "
Small quantities can be obtainedfrom the dog whelk ,awful lot of whelks for a flag presumably .