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Photo Pages: West Kennett Long Barrow - Long Barrow in England in Wiltshire
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Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 03 September 2004 Page Views: 14503
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Re: West Kennett Long Barrow (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Monday, 28 October 2002 | I visited the barrow on Thursday. The fields approaching the monument are now unfenced, but there has been a half-hearted attempt to enclose the
monument plus incorporate an aluminium farmer's gate into the fenced enclosure. But the gate has been left off its hinges, slumped against the fence. The general effect is of a run-down farmyard - you expect to find spare bits of tractors dotted around the barrow. It's so bad it's bizarre.
Once inside the barrow I removed no less than 5 night lights, one still burning away at the crumbling dry stone walling, at the extreme west end of the interior. With an electric torch looking for more, I discovered numerous chalk drawings all over the megaliths, and numerous black, waxy burn marks where candles have been set into stone crevices and allowed to burn out.
Now I suspect some of the contributors to this list may know or know of people who are actively involved in this business - probably local youngsters - from Marlborough, Swindon or Calne, etc. And this is what I'd like to say to them: If you want to spend some time in West Kennet Long Barrow, take an electric torch. Fire harms stone. Please don't light fires near or within megalithic monuments. And remember, you are not the only ones who want to enjoy this monument - please clean up after yourselves. I'm talking about plastic bags left around and small piles of gently
rotting fruit. After you have dedicated things, you
can take them away again - and perhaps give them away to people, a nice gesture.
And please don't draw on the stones - if you want to be an artist, go to art school.
Rick | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: West Kennett Long Barrow (Score: 1)
by f1racer on Wednesday, 14 September 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | You will fine these tea lights and flowers are not left by youngsters but by pagans who should know better the so called goddess og Glastonbury uses this barrow quite often for there rituals. If they carry on causing damage we will find the monument either closed or a fence around it like stone henge
I visited the barrow last week and glad to say it was clean. it should be respected as a burial sight as intended there may be bodies there now but the spirits of the dead are . all I can say to the pagans is use a torch like ever one else and take your rubbish home. it,s Abuse it you loose it. then we all suffer. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: West Kennett Long Barrow (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Sunday, 20 May 2007 | I've only recently visited the West Kennnet site, as the Avebury stone circle NT car park was charging £5, which I flatly refused to pay on good friday this year! So we hared off to view Silbury Hill, and I was pleased to see that the boggy area below it, showed signs that indeed the lake was still there. The lAst time we visited, many moons ago, a swan had been on the lake.Then off to the west kennet barrow, and looking for those other three mounds, not sure what they are...?
I was appalled to see many people,walking up fast behind us, so we went off on a false trail, leaving the others to climb the hill, whilst I inspected the old trees bordering the feild, and the rags hung on them... then up to pay my respects, in my own way, I do not hold with children jumping all over the top, I thought this a good time to visit, on Good Friday, when all the xians would be at their kirks, and I for one would be honouring our long dead ancestors.
Knowing Im odd, or a sensitive,on the walk up, I stopped and linked in with the silbury hill vibrations,and other spritual genii loci, and did my invitation , like an spiritual shamanic song under my breath, tos ee what would happen, if anything...
so told hubby not to go in, but to go alongside to the left, in a semi circle and view it from the other end, as if I was taking an invisible host of people to view it, from another age, it seemed like, walking round it firstly, honouring the area it stood on.
When the others had stopped visiting, and children running and jumping on the top, which incensed me no end, that i had to apologise to the spirits, for the awful way the site was being treated, and for all the graffitti, there... I then found I was rewarded when the stones talked back to me!
I went first to the left hand side, and then to the right, opened up the channels, and waited, with hand outstretched on the cold stones... eyes closed in prayer, to see if anything would happen.... wowee, yes it did... I would need a further visit, to interpret the talk of those stones...! Wowwweee I was high, and been transported to another land, had to steady myself, on the large stone outside, before I could come abck to land and walk back,l after doing my song and dance and waved my owl handled walking stick at the mound, in honour of the old ancestors, lurking there,.. whoever they were, and whatever its used for today, those stones said it all!!!!!! | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: West Kennett Long Barrow (Score: 1)
by AngieLake on Friday, 03 August 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | ADMINS please note:
Not sure if there ARE two ways to spell this, but was unable to find 'West Kennet Long Barrow' by entering that title in 'Search'.
I have been spelling it with two 'T's in 'Kennet' in diary, and letters and postcards to friends that I've sent from Wilts holiday, but see that official EH/NT spelling in Avebury booklet is only one 'T'. | [ Reply to This ]
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