[Stones] Herefordshire stone serpent

[jtg]

I never said otherwise, but the concept you seemed to be advancing was that
that this was an early Le Creuset collection, laid out for the admiration of
others!

They could have been fire-shattered stones from any source. Possibly eve3n
frost-shattered.

Dunno!


John Germain

Jersey
British Channel Islands

-----Original Message-----
From: stones-bounces at henge.org.uk [mailto:stones-bounces at henge.org.uk] On
Behalf Of Ric
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 10:44 PM
To: The Stones Mailing List
Subject: RE: [Stones] Herefordshire stone serpent

well, it seems that the stones were shattered prior to
being laid out in the serpent shape?

Ric 

--- jtg <jtg.germainsjy at localdial.com> wrote:

> Or, possibly, the effect of gorse and bracken fires
> raging over them for  
> centuries?
> 
> John Germain
> 
> Jersey
> British Channel Islands
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stones-bounces at henge.org.uk
> [mailto:stones-bounces at henge.org.uk] On
> Behalf Of Ric
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 10:23 PM
> To: The Stones Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Stones] Herefordshire stone serpent
> 
> ye gods - could they not incorporate a 'raised
> section' in this miserable road?
> 
> wonder if the fire-cracked stones (symbolism) may
> derive from an early method of cooking foodstuffs,
> whereby stones were exposed to intense heat before
> being deposited into broth or soup-like
> consistencies,
> within relatively fragile ceramics of even stout,
> leather containers?
> 
> there was doubtless some mythology surrounding these
> 'cooking stones' ... something which would have been
> right at the heart of every stoneage community?
> 
> additionally, there is the snake symbolism ...
> 
> Ric
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