[Stones] Scilly Isles

[Cerridwen Connelly]

Littlestone wrote:
>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.

The issue isn't so much if the remains were local or from the mainland of
Cornwall, but where the builders of the sites lived. I very much doubt that
the construction crews commuted from the mainland. Mainland remains may have
been added to the sites in later times though.

Hwyl,

Cerri
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