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Jacquetta Hawkes: Events drowned in time
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"When the ritual and whatever its accompaniment may have been of masks, effigies and offerings have vanished so long ago, when there is no stir of emotion and the ghost which keeps emotion alive, when the very people responsible for raising these mounds have been overwhelmed, absorbed and forgotten, then their detailed study can become lifeless enough. Better perhaps to look at them with knowledge but with knowledge unexpressed, these round barrows that are like the floating bubbles of events drowned in time."*

* Jacquetta Hawkes. Prehistoric Monuments and Roman Monuments in England and Wales; 1954.

Thanks to moss for that.


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Littlestone
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23rd March 2007ce
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