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tjj wrote: tiompan wrote: Pardon the pedantry but there are no Neolithic -BA labyrinths in the British or Irish RA corpus ,or in the megalithic art from Iberian /Franco passage graves ,that I know of .There is a definite similarity due to central cups being surrounded by rings ,penannulars,spirals ,arcs etc but none have the rigidity of that design . The Saward article was right to use the the term labyrinthine .There are a bunch of labyrinths in Russia that he didn't mention , thatsome have considered to be neolithic but with the usual problems regarding dating impossible to prove and unlikely . Its not pedantry to correct a misinformation Tiompan. Referring to Stan Beckensall's book Prehistoric Rock Art in Britain there are photos in there of concentric rings with a line through them to the centre (13a&b Rings: Buttony and Achnabreck) and (14a&b Rings: Gled Law and Galloway) which do have a labyrinth appearance and in the case of Buttony have seven circles as in a seven fold maze. PRAiB is a great little reference book to check what is actually there as opposed to what you thought was there. Yep they are good examples of being labyrinthine but none are actually labyrinths . Reply | with quote |  25th February 2010ce 20:02 In reply to: Re: The tor maze (or not) (tjj) |
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