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JimChampion
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|  New Message Posted!2007-01-21 00:17
The map I had calls the holes "shake holes". While I was there it occurred to me that the (man-made) barrows were like inversions of the (natural) shake holes. Photos are here, if you still haven't looked!
Thanks for your interest.
Jim
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mishkin
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| New Message Posted!2007-01-02 16:02
Few days ago Bronkham barrows photos went through and meant too look them up at the time but did'nt, what was interesting is the sinkholes or dolines that are also found on this ridge alongside the barrows. Some may be recent but apparently, according to my book, Tilley says that there is a direct relationship between the sink holes and barrows - one being a transformation or inversion of the other -. He also goes on to say - "it is hard not to imagine that these circular holes were conceptualised as sites of ancestral activity - the place where ancestors entered and exited the land to the underworld below" - . A bit like the swallow holes on the Mendip which also had bronze age offerings in, and is'nt there a big shaft on Martin Green's farm which I think had a bronze age family from the Mendips buried near its lip.....
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