There is also good news!!! Tom Stephenson has been ill and is now recovering, thanks to his partner for keeping us up to date. Whilst wishing a Happy Birthday to a long ago friend from the prehistoric side of my past. I stumbled on the great news that King Arthur's Hall on Bodmin Moor is prehistoric in its date. So to an old friend who I feel is no longer around, Roy Goutte. Roy it was your nagging that did it and I remember the wonderful time Paul and I had when you took us around your part of Cornwall. See here for the Heritage Trust article.
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Bodmin Moor King Arthur site five times older than thought - researchers - BBC News
Of course King Arthur's Hall was prehistoric, the arrangement of a square was unusual, may have in fact been rearranged in medieval times but those stones had a reason to be there, with a tor of course always in sight
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Roy, Paul and Paul's cousin and husband
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| Me being pulled up? Note one of Roy's sheepdog at his side. Roy trained sheepdogs and I think one even went out to Australia Andrew! |
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| I remember being so excited about this place |
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I was rarely in photos as I was the one with the lens, I guess it was a photo you took. So we don't see you.
ReplyDeleteYes Andrew but I found one from the same time. I am never tidy, my hair being a problem, so don't like to appear too much ;)
ReplyDeleteYou have certainly had so many adventures in your life, Thelma! You know about so many things that I have never even heard of before! I'm sure you have mentioned it before but I forget how you got so interested in ancient places and things...
ReplyDeleteShort story. Widowed at 27 years old with 3 year old daughter. Decided to move to Wales and a smallholding. But during the drive up passed Avebury and Silbury Hill monuments. Which sparked an interest and so I settled in a town nearby. Studied archaeology and then married the lecturer. 28 years later met Paul and fell in love. His spiritual home was Silbury Hill - shared passion ;)
DeleteI have quickly browsed through the two attachments. I am excited too! To have something to come back to read later when I have time to really think on it. That neat 'square' is very evocative...even in a picture. I cannot imagine the magic of seeing it in real life.
ReplyDeleteHi Debby. I was so excited this morning, it just blew my mind and got rid of the news. Roy would have been so happy, but I don't think he is on this Earth any longer and I miss all the CDs he used to send me of his dogs and family of magpies. So I want to see him recognised as the one with his little team of volunteers as the group that worked so hard to try and get this site excavated and the truth found.
ReplyDeleteThat is fairly amazing, for the site to be so much older than anticipated. Off to check out the attachments now.
ReplyDeleteI am glad a part of the truth has been unveiled Jennie. It is near a boundary of estates and has always been thought of as a pound/watering place. Though clearly not, cattle do not like standing in water.
ReplyDeleteHello Thelma...Also pleased for Roy...we too visited King Arthur's Hall, & the nearby Leaze stone circle years ago. I remember we got lost temporarily in the thickets on the moor & got fairly scratched up...fun times. One of Roy's passions was Trethevy Quoit , about which he wrote his theory on its construction & self published it in pamphlet form.
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ReplyDeleteHello Carol, Roy also took us to Trevethy Quoit and I have just looked up his book on it, my late partner's website Heritage Trust featured it. He was such a kind and giving person and of course his sheepdogs also kept him busy. I will do something in a blog on Trevethy. Thank you for reminding me.
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