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tiompan Sep 4, 2012 23:56:29
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tjj wrote:
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The heyday of the polished stone axe seems different in different places and times and avebury may have been the heyday place of that region, the size been explained by the amount of old paths that converged there, some later axes were only polished on one side in lincolnshire and elsewhere.
No , in Britain including the Avebury area the heyday was before Avebury was built .
We have to ask the question - were the Avebury and Avenue stones already there, just lying around as they are over at Lockeridge. The fact that a few of them had been used to sharpen axes may have been coincidental. The Avenue stones seem to have been worked so perhaps the axes that worked them were sharpened in situ as they were erected.
By the time Avenue was being built bronze was just about in use .
Not quite, they don't have the finds, you know that's why avebury's known as a neolithic site, it was falling into disuse by the Bronze age, and stonehenge starts to take over as the main place of the region.
The West kennet Avenue was built circa 2400 BC the same time as copper was being extracted at Ross Island .
That's in Ireland and probably taken by people from the med, like the link below greatly shows the people of avebury may have known of it but had not wanted to use the stuff, there would have been a lot of talk of it been used for weapons and this alone would have put a lot of people off for a long time.
"there would have been a lot of talk of it been used for weapons and this alone would have put a lot of people off for a long time."

Eh? a lot of talk ? Punters in the Avebury area put off by metal weapons ?
The comment was "By the time Avenue was being built bronze was just about in use " .That is simply the case . The Avenue was built circa 2400 BC , Boscombe down Amesbury G85 has an inhumation with dagger dated 2450 -2290 BC ,Radley barow Hills barrow 3 has an inmhumation with dagger dated 2395-23865 BC .

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bladup Sep 5, 2012 00:08:18
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
bladup wrote:
tiompan wrote:
bladup wrote:
tiompan wrote:
tjj wrote:
tiompan wrote:
The heyday of the polished stone axe seems different in different places and times and avebury may have been the heyday place of that region, the size been explained by the amount of old paths that converged there, some later axes were only polished on one side in lincolnshire and elsewhere.
No , in Britain including the Avebury area the heyday was before Avebury was built .
We have to ask the question - were the Avebury and Avenue stones already there, just lying around as they are over at Lockeridge. The fact that a few of them had been used to sharpen axes may have been coincidental. The Avenue stones seem to have been worked so perhaps the axes that worked them were sharpened in situ as they were erected.
By the time Avenue was being built bronze was just about in use .
Not quite, they don't have the finds, you know that's why avebury's known as a neolithic site, it was falling into disuse by the Bronze age, and stonehenge starts to take over as the main place of the region.
The West kennet Avenue was built circa 2400 BC the same time as copper was being extracted at Ross Island .
That's in Ireland and probably taken by people from the med, like the link below greatly shows the people of avebury may have known of it but had not wanted to use the stuff, there would have been a lot of talk of it been used for weapons and this alone would have put a lot of people off for a long time.
"there would have been a lot of talk of it been used for weapons and this alone would have put a lot of people off for a long time."

Eh? a lot of talk ? Punters in the Avebury area put off by metal weapons ?
The comment was "By the time Avenue was being built bronze was just about in use " .That is simply the case . The Avenue was built circa 2400 BC , Boscombe down Amesbury G85 has an inhumation with dagger dated 2450 -2290 BC ,Radley barow Hills barrow 3 has an inmhumation with dagger dated 2395-23865 BC .

I think a lot of people would have been scared of it, sometimes the people scared of it may have been powerful and influential people, this could explain why bronze was accepted in the stonehenge region and avebury was left behind and maybe seen as behind the times, because a powerful tribal leader didn't allow it on his patch, and by the time he was gone, time had pasted the great place by.