[Stones] Tan Hill and cattle

[Thelma Wilcox]

Ric <megalith6 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:    i've got an EH map of the Avebury region - based on
o/s - produced by one *Nick Burton* [nd / publication
unknown] which shows about three round barrows / ring
ditches where the 'Silbaby' bluff occurs: this is
obviously what Stukeley recorded on Littlestone's map;
the bluff looked out onto the West Kennet Palisade
Enclosures, which could well explain the sacred
atmosphere touching this location, and its suitability
for (later) barrows?
   
  The thing about the palisaded enclosures was that the offerings in the post holes was pig, not cattle, Ric - a feasting ritual complex, with an awful lot of young pigs slaughtered?  Pigs will not be driven ;), woodland creatures are'nt they.... Josh Pollard in Writtle's book(Silbury Hill) on the subject has a drawing of the 'sacred landscape' around Silbury - the palisaded enclosures are a pretty strong feature of the landscape he speculated that thy represented conflagration (they were burnt down) and renewal, but their ritual (seemingly from the archaeological record) a large asymetrical post in one of the enclosures and a trackway, lined with posts, up to the entrance, almost temple like.  Given that there can be hundreds of years apart on all these monuments, The Sanctuary, Avebury and Silbury, one wonders if there is no defining one theme - say water - but at different periods the 'divine' nature of water, or indeed the fertility of the earth - Pollard saw Silbury as
 a symbol of earth, is picked up...Not entering into the Silbaby discussion, though I agree with Nigel and his leyline,  straight line thro Silbury/Silbaby/ Sanctuary, maybe......... even thro the palisaded enclosures taking into account the large asymetrical totem pole ;) 
  Thelma
  
 

       
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