Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: Standing Stones
I am always amazed by the number of standing stones in Essex. Mostly hidden away and usually by the side of roads especially where three roads or paths meet.
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:16 am Post subject: Re: Standing Stones
david hobbs wrote:
I am always amazed by the number of standing stones in Essex. Mostly hidden away and usually by the side of roads especially where three roads or paths meet.
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:34 am Post subject: Re: Standing Stones
meiah wrote:
david hobbs wrote:
I am always amazed by the number of standing stones in Essex. Mostly hidden away and usually by the side of roads especially where three roads or paths meet.
This is interesting. I didn't know about standing stones in Essex.
Are they still in their original positions, or do you think they've been moved? It's interesting they should be found at crossroads, as a crossroads can represent a kind of threshold between this world and the otherworld. It's a bit like when we cast a circle, it's between the mundane world and the world of spirit. These stones could well be memorial stones. Do you know if any inscriptions have ever been found on them? If not, it would suggest that they were positioned there when the locals were pre-literate, which makes them very old indeed. And of course the number three was sacred to the pre-Roman peoples, as it represented the triple goddess, the original three-in-one - Maiden, Mother and Crone. There are many sets of triple goddesses in Celtic mythology. I wonder which ones were native to Essex? That's another idea - the stones may have been set up in honour of a particular deity.
This is interesting. I didn't know about standing stones in Essex.
Are they still in their original positions, or do you think they've been moved? It's interesting they should be found at crossroads, as a crossroads can represent a kind of threshold between this world and the otherworld. It's a bit like when we cast a circle, it's between the mundane world and the world of spirit. These stones could well be memorial stones. Do you know if any inscriptions have ever been found on them? If not, it would suggest that they were positioned there when the locals were pre-literate, which makes them very old indeed. And of course the number three was sacred to the pre-Roman peoples, as it represented the triple goddess, the original three-in-one - Maiden, Mother and Crone. There are many sets of triple goddesses in Celtic mythology. I wonder which ones were native to Essex? That's another idea - the stones may have been set up in honour of a particular deity.
The stones were place around 4.600 years ago or so I am led to believe. It is not until you begin to look at what is under your very nose that you begin to realise that we are surrounded by evidence of the old ones.
Some of the stones have been moved from there original positions but we can tell which ones because we have seen so many that we understand where they should be.
Searching the landscape is a wonderful pastime and anyone who cares to take time out to do it will soon find things that will draw then further into the mysteries of the past. _________________ Please visit our main site
And that's one of my favourite things to do, when I get the chance!
Standing stones usually make people think first of Cornwall and the West Country, so it's really good to know that they're in other parts of the country as well. My family roots are on the Suffolk/Norfolk border, but I was taken away as a baby, so I've never lived there, but it's a part of the country I'd love to go back and see properly, because it feels ancestral to me, like it's where I come from, where my origins were.
And that's one of my favourite things to do, when I get the chance!
Standing stones usually make people think first of Cornwall and the West Country, so it's really good to know that they're in other parts of the country as well. My family roots are on the Suffolk/Norfolk border, but I was taken away as a baby, so I've never lived there, but it's a part of the country I'd love to go back and see properly, because it feels ancestral to me, like it's where I come from, where my origins were.
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Join! (free) 
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
