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Mr Hamhead Oct 13, 2004 08:27:53
Replying to FourWinds

I couldn't have put it better..

I am happy to have the well removed..if that is the general feeling....but as you say what about all t'other things that have arrived over the years.

As for the tree chimneys!

Wells must have been worshiped pre Christian times, or at least used. I was up on Carburrow Tor on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor yesterday. There is a large Bronze Age settlement there plus two big cairns and a supposed quoit. Slap bang in the middle of the settlement is a spring...much walked in by cattle and not the sort of thing you would want to drink from but...

It has never been Christianised....there is a well nearer the modern setlement, much more handy. If there had been a "temple" here it has long dissapeared or fallen amongst the rest of the granite that litters the hillside....we will never know.

Once again we get back to the "in the past 4000 years much has changed, we have no proof" discussion.

Mr H

G goffik
goffik Oct 13, 2004 09:15:37
Replying to Mr Hamhead

I certainly don't think the well you've posted should be removed from here! I remain convinced of that one in particular and tons of others being very old and that (I want so much for there to be some evidence though! Please someone!)

I just thought that the ones I mentioned have (seemingly) no trace of the original well, or water, or anything like that, so there will never be any proof... I'd love to be proved wrong!

When I get my website going, we cna have al the wells we like - holy or otherwise! ;o)

G x

B baza
baza Oct 13, 2004 18:31:00
Replying to Mr Hamhead

I agree with goffik: I'm the only one who's raised any objection to holy wells appearing here and 'your' Holywell has been classified by you as a Cave/Rock Shelter. Seems reasonable to me. I have no say on the matter other than giving an opinion. There is a classification on TMA called 'Sacred Well'; it's up to the Eds to decide what's relevant to TMA, not me.

:o)


Baz