[Stones] Heel Stone / Stonehenge

[Ric]

btw - if 'heel' does = 'haul', this may be big time -
nothing else leads directly, as far as i'm aware, back
from the Celtic British Isles to Megalithic Britain

for Celtic culture to have bequeathed the word for sun
upon the Heel Stone, presupposes a working knowledge
of the astronomical function of the prehistoric
monument -

this begs a question - how old are the Celtic
languages in Britain: was a form of Proto-Brythonic
spoken in these isles, a good millennia before the
accepted date for the Celts in Britain, the Iron Age?

;-)

ric


--- Ric <megalith6 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> s'mae Cerri,
> 
> Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda
> 
> seems so obvious, in retrospect?
> 
> bests
> 
> ric
> 
> 
> --- Cerridwen Connelly
> <Cerridwen.Connelly at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> 
> > Could be:-)
> > 
> > Many Welsh speakers suspect so - including me.
> > 
> > For anyone who didn't look it up, haul is Welsh
> for
> > "sun".
> > 
> > Hwyl,
> > 
> > Cerri 
> > http://www.technopagans.co.uk
> > "for those who honour the past but love living in
> > the present"
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > hi,
> > > 
> > > wondering if the name Heel Stone preserves an
> > archaic
> > > Welsh/Brythonic 'haul'?
> > > ric