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Hello, Blonde! Welcome to TMA!

Glad you made it - a fine set of first posts if you don't mind me saying..! ;o)

I gotta couple of points/questions...

1) The <a href="http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/3924">Harold Stone</a> - I was just wondering about access. Did you have any problems? Kammer wrote "The Harold Stone is on private land, so I'm guessing access is a potential problem" - but then adds he was in a hurry... Also - the shape of the stone looks very wide in Kammer's pic, and a bit slimmer in yours - is it just the angle?

2) <a href="http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/32763">This is a lovely looking stone!</a>

3) At <a href="http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/594">Cerrig Meibion Arthur</a> - you mention "4 springs converge in the area"... This is of great interest to me, as people here might already know! And, indeed, as YOU know, I have an unhealthy fascination with wells and springs. We've had a big conversation here recently (see <a href="http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?thread=20761&offset=25">here</a>) about wells and their significance (or otherwise) to prehistoric people... more really to do with the antiquity of the wells themselves, but it all tallies, for me, when this sort of thing happens... There are several sites that I know of, and I'm certain there are many more, that seem to have connections with water sources. Erm... <a href="http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8333">Swallowhead Spring</a> is pretty much the only one that springs (ha. ha.) immediately to mind, but humour me!

I won't go on (again), suffice to say cheers for pointing that out!

Wish we would have gone with ya now! :( Next year...

G x

PS - hope all my links work... Sorry if they don't - I'm just showing off... ;o)

Hi G and B,

> Also - the shape of the stone looks very wide in Kammer's pic,
> and a bit slimmer in yours - is it just the angle?

I guess it's possible that my stone wasn't the right one, but it looked convincing. There are a lot of stones with this name in the area. Is it possible that Blonde's is a different one? I guess this is unlikely though.

> There are several sites that I know of, and I'm certain
> there are many more, that seem to have connections
> with water sources.

There's loads of that going on in our area. The rivers and valleys seem to have been of special significance to the Bronze Age people of Ceredigion. The cairns in particular (Hirnant, Dolgamfa etc) are planted overlooking the Rheidol Gorge, but then there sites like Ysbytty Cynfyn that are just over the hill from the river (coincidence or part of a cunning plan?). I find it fascinating, but nobody else comes a'visiting round here.

:-(#

> PS - hope all my links work... Sorry if they don't - I'm just showing off... ;o)

Links in posts work on the TMA version of this Forum, but not if you're looking at it through the HH interface (Head to Head):

http://www.headheritage.co.uk/headtohead/show.php?show=message&id=233590

K x