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| Re: Castlerigg (Score: 1) by graemefield on Tuesday, 08 July 2008 (User Info | Send a Message) |
| it is a terrible shame that the national park authority takes the "what can we do about it approach". i admire the action you took, as many would stand by and say nothing. i have e-mailed the liverpool holistic society demanding (if they are truly responsible) an explanation. maybe we should visit their meeting place and dig up the centre of their communial hall and tell them to "feel the love". how would you feel about that?. once again thank you for you direct intervention in this most disrespectful act. |
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| Re: Castlerigg stone circle (Score: 1) by GAZ on Saturday, 04 September 2004 (User Info | Send a Message) |
| My first visit to the stones at Castlerigg and I was not disappointed. When viewing the magnificent panoramic-landscape on this site, you can certainly appreciate the sensibility of the place. Stunning...Gaz |
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| Re: Castlerigg (Score: 1) by coldrum on Tuesday, 08 July 2008 (User Info | Send a Message) |
| Not everyone who is pagan damages ancient monuments. Many are just as horrified by such destruction. They may go to stones to do rituals but theirs are non destructive. Coldrum in Kent has had the same problem. One pagan was so fed up with the mess that he took it open himself to go down as often as possible to clear the mess away and report any damage to the authorities. People were leaving plastic flowers and one day he arrived to find someone had covered the monument in sand and seashells. The same is happening to some Holy wells around the country. Fair enough in the past bits of rag would be tied to trees by such wells but the rags were of cotton or other natural fiber which would rot away. Nowadays man made materials are used which don't. If people do want to go to these sites for spiritual reasons ( as I have done myself) I wish they would think a bit before they go. Is it really necessary to stick candles to stones and leave a mess of wax all over them ( I've seen the mess they cause while visiting West Kennet long barrow), do you really need to draw symbols on monuments, or dig holes. As for offerings, think about it. Plastic and man made fibers do not rot as easily as natural products. If people must leave something then maybe a few wild flowers laid at the base of the monument and outside of burial chambers. And most important of all, respect others who are visiting the monuments. They have just as much right to be there. Pagans do not have a monopoly over ancient monuments. All of us whatever we care to believe in have a right to go to these places. And I'm sure that we would all like to see them at their best and not damaged and covered in rubbish. |
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| Re: Castlerigg stone circle (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Tuesday, 25 April 2006 |
| Visiting for lunar standstill in July. Anyone got any details of the alignments at Castlerigg or anything else I should know? Castlerigg virign and can't wait!! |
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| Lunar Standstill July 2006 (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Thursday, 13 July 2006 |
| Managed to get an intermittent but totally majestic view of the mother moon on Tuesday night up at these marvellous stones having been there since Saturday. So so low in the sky and only to return in 19 years. What will have become of us in those years? Crazy weather in Cumbria this week !!!! Drums were beaten Mead was drunken Bashas were raised Merriment was had. Thank you Castlerigg PS your only hope of being at the stones without stone-sitting tourists is to stay there all night. The briefest chance to commune one to one (or one to thirty eight as it were) is worth all the effort as this site is incredible. |
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| Re: Castlerigg (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Wednesday, 09 July 2008 |
| Contact details for the people responsible: anne@ixcanaan.org www.@ixcanaan.org Why not tell them how you feel about their actions - I have ! |
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| Re: Castlerigg (Score: 1) by ShropshireTraveller on Monday, 12 March 2007 (User Info | Send a Message) |
| Castlerigg on YouTube |
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| Re: Castlerigg (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
| They are in fact defacing a monument surely, which under the law is illegal, just because neopaganism has arrived in the world does'nt mean that they can high jack stone circles for their own particular religious use. Not sure of the answer, except notice boards, but EH is bringing out a document today about destruction of ancient monuments which should be interesting.... |
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| Re: Castlerigg (Score: 1) by Condros on Monday, 07 July 2008 (User Info | Send a Message) |
| What an inept response from the officials, since what the "visitors" were doing is illegal, local constabulary could easily locate the perpetrators, and either jail them, and make them pay a hefty fine for their desecration. Just maybe it would signal to "visitors" that acts of vandalism to British heritage will not be tolerated. |
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| Re: Castlerigg (Score: 1) by TheCaptain on Sunday, 06 July 2008 (User Info | Send a Message) |
| I saw what I considered to be utterly disgraceful scenes at Castlerigg last Sunday, with several people there with a couple of "colourful" characters from (I believe) Guatemala blowing horns and smoking god only knows what, who proceeded to dig a pit and start a fire in the centre of the circle as part of some sort of "ceremony", while trying to get the other visitors and onlookers to join in with them. Both myself and another challenged them about what they were doing, but got nothing but stuff about "feeling the love" etc etc.... I put my point about this being a criminal act, and damaging to history and culture, and would they do this in a church, but got short shrift. I had to leave, with about 15 friends, because it was so upsetting seeing such willful damage to this splendid place..... I reported this to the national park office in Keswick afterwards, but they sort of shrugged their shoulders and said what could they do about it ? And that this sort of thing is getting more and more common.... |
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| Re: Castlerigg (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Wednesday, 09 July 2008 |
| The problem for the rangers is that they are not able to risk a violent confrontation with these people, and police resources are stretched too far. It might have taken a couple of hours for the police to reach the scene and by then the perpetrators would have fled. Far better to offer the photographic evidence to the National Trust now and suggest that they might have enough evidence to make a prosecution, or at least send a very strongly worded letter informing these people of their disgusting behaviour. |
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| Re: Castlerigg (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Wednesday, 22 April 2009 |
| To decode part of the mystery and therefore reason for building such monuments as castlerigg recount the stones - the '10' stones forming the oblong enclosure are actually 13 stones forming a half circle on the 38 stones of the main circle, like a cog on the inside of a wheel, each sharing 3 stones with the other! (13 is a lunar number by the way - I will include an explanation of this in the forthcoming book The Ancient Code) The next bit is slightly tenuous BUT the circle could actually have had 39 stones (some think up to 41) BUT if you include the key/king/outlying stone that is 39. 39=3(the shared stones, trinity etc)x13 I am gonna leave this hanging in the air to see if anyone else ends up where I have ended For more titbits visit http://www.ancientcode.com and http://www.dragonsandrings.com All the brightest Steve |
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| Re: Castlerigg (Score: 1) by coldrum on Wednesday, 07 October 2009 (User Info | Send a Message) |
| Pastscape: http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=9828 |
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