[Stones] Scilly Isles

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Cerri wrote -

"But the theorising patter of the presenter and archaeologist that Bronze Age people may have commuted from the mainland in log boats..."

Mark Horton really is an irritating so-an-so; at one point he climbed into a tomb with a jovial, "I think I'll just climb into this." remark :-(  And I've never forgiven him for firing and breaking up one of the sarsens on Fyfield Down - just to show how it was done!  Apart from Horton's wittering it was a good prog, and I also thought the analysis of the light at St Ives was interesting (there was, maybe still is, an industrial paint research laboratory just outside St Ives). I agree that the cremated remains are more likely those of islanders. You never know though, the Isles of Scilly may have been seen as something special by the mainlanders and a place where their important people were laid to rest - like the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens across the Nile from Luxor, or the distances Hindus will travel to scatter the ashes of their loved ones in the Ganges.
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