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david hobbs

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.

The question is why.
wackyjacky

Maybe the earth energy is stronger at the points where the roads cross?!

Just a suggestion, I don't know for sure.
david hobbs

wackyjacky wrote:
Maybe the earth energy is stronger at the points where the roads cross?!

Just a suggestion, I don't know for sure.



It really is worth while exploring the north Essex countryside Whakey.

We are not Stone henge or Avebury but we are rich in Neolithic stones.

Look them up on Google and get your walking boots on.
wackyjacky

I might just do that, my fella is from Essex, so it may just be a big possibility!
david hobbs

wackyjacky wrote:
I might just do that, my fella is from Essex, so it may just be a big possibility!


It makes for a great day out and don't forget to visit the local hostelry for some liquid refreshment.

Fresh air neolithic stones a drink afterwards.

Heaven.
wackyjacky

I have to say, it does sound like a good idea! :D
meiah

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.

The question is why.


Have you asked them? (Not as silly as it sounds)
david hobbs

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.

The question is why.


Have you asked them? (Not as silly as it sounds)



Not my thing I'm afraid.

Deaf as a post.
david hobbs

I did once think that they formed some kind of communication system. That seems barmy but who knows.
Sceptic Tel

Quote:
Deaf as a post.


Don't you mean you're stone deaf lmao (sorry)
david hobbs

Sceptic Tel wrote:
Quote:
Deaf as a post.


Don't you mean you're stone deaf lmao (sorry)



beantighe

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.
david hobbs

beantighe wrote:
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.
beantighe

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.
david hobbs

beantighe wrote:
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.


The Suffolk Norfolk border is stone country.

It is littered with them
beantighe

Wow!!  Now I do really want to go and see it!!  Is there any reading matter or any website you can recommend?
david hobbs

beantighe wrote:
Wow!!  Now I do really want to go and see it!!  Is there any reading matter or any website you can recommend?



Here is a good site Beenie.

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146411030

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