tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post5261105802425136413..comments2024-03-27T11:23:43.902+00:00Comments on Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley: SolsticeWodeWosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18381754587879658356noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-17501210542672446472015-06-21T10:06:37.331+01:002015-06-21T10:06:37.331+01:00I had to google on Rollright Stones, I admit, to c...I had to google on Rollright Stones, I admit, to check up on this one. I think you will find that the Angles came a bit late to this party, as the Rollrights were erected, if that is the right word, by our Neolithic ancestors about 2,000 years ago (it says on the English Heritage site).<br /><br />I live in Dorset which is full chock-a-block with henges, barrows and other prehistoric remains but is a bit short on standing stones. Aerial photography has revealed yet more sites which have been long since destroyed by the plough, the needs of the motor car, and (in one notorious instance) by the needs of the golfer. If these were all worship sites, or sites of religious significance, then our ancestors must have lived constantly in sight of the eternal. And in hearing, if the new investigations into the use of stone as a sort of sounding-board prove to be correct.<br /><br />No-one will ever know, until the Last Day, what and how these people worshipped, or if they did. My own, uninstructed, instinct is that they were acutely conscious of <i>place</i>. That some <i>places</i> seem to embody a power of their own which needs to be protected, or placated, or celebrated for its own sake.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com