An important discussion about the bones of England. Future talks that involve more dating and classification of prehistoric and neolithic stone sites (and more discussion of the human remains sometimes found at these sites) would be eagerly anticipated, I'm sure.
What a great talk - and superbly well illustrated. I wonder if there are any techniques or markers to recognise which quarry/location specific stones come from
Jolly good fun thanks for sharing Re. Your list of ? at the conclusion: Any time served stonemason/builder could answer all those questions in a sentence. Im over educated but worked on my 500 year old house with 3 foot walls so had to work with ‘bastard granite’ which is so hard it doesn’t cleave and lived in a landscape of glacial boulders and erratics. Most had been rolled down hill and used or sold… it was the ones left alone which were most interesting… there were reasons why handy large 2-5 ton boulders were left I lived on a prehistoric trackway with megaliths and finds so there had been plenty of time for anyone to use these stones in nearby stonewalls, road or house foundations and small bridges and generally quarried - as I say the ones left behind in such a busy albeit very remote landscape have messages to illustrate history. All best for a fab talk
Rev Peter is likely 100% correct, apart from Canterbury that you mention in Kent the Cathedral at Rochester Kent also has Sarsens as does my local church at Upchurch & the neighbouring Church in the next village. These stones do not appear in the general landscape as North Kent is on heavy clay so the Sarsen were brought in from another area.
Sarsen stones are common in Kent churches also, in the foundations and as graveyard boundary markers, one in each corner. I also think they denote pre-Christian burial or pagan worship sites that were later adopted by the church
Ted Roberts, sounded pretty meaty to me. I had turned the speed of replay up. Perhaps you could try something similar if your ADHD symptoms make listening a chore?
This sansen stone or watt ever you want call is not just stone, this ar calling dolmens and was bariol site were the body wass cremated or lett in side to prevented animals feed ther self ,I no watt I touk tokin about the ar undred and undred in Sardinia and watt is founding in UK the ar spoke remain from Wen the all the country wass still attaching toughedar milion and million years ago.
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This is an excellent talk. Much food for thought. Fascinating and so clearly prexented
An important discussion about the bones of England. Future talks that involve more dating and classification of prehistoric and neolithic stone sites (and more discussion of the human remains sometimes found at these sites) would be eagerly anticipated, I'm sure.
What a great talk - and superbly well illustrated. I wonder if there are any techniques or markers to recognise which quarry/location specific stones come from
Jolly good fun thanks for sharing
Re. Your list of ? at the conclusion: Any time served stonemason/builder could answer all those questions in a sentence. Im over educated but worked on my 500 year old house with 3 foot walls so had to work with ‘bastard granite’ which is so hard it doesn’t cleave and lived in a landscape of glacial boulders and erratics. Most had been rolled down hill and used or sold… it was the ones left alone which were most interesting… there were reasons why handy large 2-5 ton boulders were left I lived on a prehistoric trackway with megaliths and finds so there had been plenty of time for anyone to use these stones in nearby stonewalls, road or house foundations and small bridges and generally quarried - as I say the ones left behind in such a busy albeit very remote landscape have messages to illustrate history.
All best for a fab talk
Learned loads. Thank You 👍👍👍👍👍
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Rev Peter is likely 100% correct, apart from Canterbury that you mention in Kent the Cathedral at Rochester Kent also has Sarsens as does my local church at Upchurch & the neighbouring Church in the next village. These stones do not appear in the general landscape as North Kent is on heavy clay so the Sarsen were brought in from another area.
Sarsen stones are common in Kent churches also, in the foundations and as graveyard boundary markers, one in each corner. I also think they denote pre-Christian burial or pagan worship sites that were later adopted by the church
TWO ROCKS.. REPRESENTING..INCESTS OR ANIMALS..ONE IS LOOKING EAST..THE OTHER IS LOOKING WEST..AND BOTH ROCKS ARE CUT NEAR THEIR HEADS..
Wow. Academics waffle on.
Ted Roberts, sounded pretty meaty to me. I had turned the speed of replay up. Perhaps you could try something similar if your ADHD symptoms make listening a chore?
This sansen stone or watt ever you want call is not just stone, this ar calling dolmens and was bariol site were the body wass cremated or lett in side to prevented animals feed ther self ,I no watt I touk tokin about the ar undred and undred in Sardinia and watt is founding in UK the ar spoke remain from Wen the all the country wass still attaching toughedar milion and million years ago.