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Anonymous
User not Registered |  Posted 02-01-2005 at 23:08
add to that the nine ladies..NOW FICTION 
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| Posted 06-01-2005 at 09:00
There a book called A Midsummer Knightmare by Gary Kilworth. It is a story of how the fairies of Sherwood Forest decide to up sticks and move to the New Forest in a battered bus which they commandeer. It takes in Avebury, Stonehenge, Silbury Hill and various other sites on their journey and features cameo performances from the Green Man, The Long Man of Wilmington and a number of mythical beasts.
I wasn't hugely impressed by the overall book, but it did improve towards the end.
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| Posted 25-01-2005 at 22:14
Thorgrim started this thread then failed to mention the stylised stone monuments in Conan the Barbarian (Thorgrim is a character in that!).
The Excalibur film with Nigel Terry also has stone circles in.
Two weak examples from a late contributor.
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| Posted 23-02-2005 at 06:33
There was in the early 70's this paperback of, at portions, questionable repute that illustrated the ancient people of Britain around the time of the building of Stone Henge. The Hero(or villian) was a mainland Greek who was rescued from "death by Minotaur" on the (Atlantian) island of Crete by an earthquake. He traveled by ship to Britain and was the only survivor of it crashing on the rocks. On through the story, he designed and built the said monument in order to help the "Beaker Folk" fight off an even more aggresive people trying to invade. This book went into much detail. As for example, the big milk gulping orgies of spring. (Too much color?) If anyone is interested, I'll try to dig up the title and author.
P.S. ah HA! the title is Stonehenge by Harry Harrison & (__). Mycenean prince, Egyptian architect, Stonehenge as a sort of pariamentary (United Nations) meeting place, etc. Read it in 1972 or '73.
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| Posted 23-02-2005 at 20:09
The film "Rob Roy" had several scenes with standing stones, the most memorable for me was the love scene.....
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User not Registered | Posted 25-02-2005 at 07:21
I remember the (Megalithic scenes) of Rob Roy and also enjoyed them for many reasons. One of which was the illustration of two people who could live freely and expressively in a compassionate manner depite the way a hierarchy, misdirected by it's own immaturity, tried to villianize them. Such energy that was exuded around the megaliths was all part of what they were erected for. Excuse the possible mispellings only.
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| Posted 25-02-2005 at 07:46
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On 2005-02-25 07:21, Anonymous wrote:
I remember the (Megalithic scenes) of Rob Roy and also enjoyed them for many reasons. One of which was the illustration of two people who could live freely and expressively in a compassionate manner depite the way a hierarchy, misdirected by it's own immaturity, tried to villianize them. Such energy that was exuded around the megaliths was all part of what they were erected for. Excuse the possible mispellings only.
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The one thing that was immature about the "hierarchy" was that The Marguiss of Montrose was anable to control his "charge" (Cunningham) and was unaware of his "servant" being capable of exploiting the whole situation behind his back. Montrose was so obsessed with trying to set Campbell(Duke of Argyll) up as a Jacobite sympathiser that he allowed demented power grubbers to control the field. Such dramatic cinema is a good example of how people are, in the sum total of it all, more respectible if they just live and love freely without concern for what others have. And are allowed to do so as the MacGregor couple should have been allowed. Who knows, maybe the stones would come back "ALIVE" with all the magic that the Rob Roy love scenes showed was possible.
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| Posted 19-10-2005 at 17:59
The new Narnia film, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe features a stonehenge-esque monument with the White Witch doing her thang; may have mentioned it already, the TV film "Merlin" features a trilithonic site where the evil Queen Mab apparates.
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| Posted 19-10-2005 at 23:21
How pre-bloody-dictable...
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|  Posted 19-10-2005 at 23:57
I thought I'd mentioned these:
'Taliesin', and 'Merlin', which are the first two of the 'Pendragon Cycle' by Stephen Lawhead.
The books contain quite a few scenes with stone circles, sacred groves, etc, and last night I was reading that a certain tribe moved to a 'crannog', or 'cave in a mountain' for the winter!
I was always under the impression that crannogs were lake-houses, built on artificial platforms?!
I don't recall any 'known' monuments being mentioned but am quite enjoying the atmosphere of these books. Most of the action happens in Wales.
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Anonymous
User not Registered | Posted 09-11-2005 at 12:01
Coming into this very late, doesn't "Stig of the Dump" end with the construction of a cromlech?
There was a BBC children's adaptation about 25 year ago of something (and I can't describe it in enough detail to find it on the net) set round the Uffington white horse and Wayland's Smithy (is the Simpson's Waylon Smithers a reference???)
Dorothy Edwards' "The Witches and the Grinnygog" briefly mentions a stone circle among the mysterious artefacts found during construction of an airport - it's a book that's worth reading for lots of other reasons though.
And somewhere I've got a 1950s childrens book called (IIRC) The Two Young Explorers) about a couple of young stone-age Briton, which includes a highly imaginary Stonehenge ceremony.
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| Posted 10-11-2005 at 00:16
Manda Scotts Boudica series of "Dreaming" novels have many references to the sacred places of the ancestors, some are caves, some burial mounds. Fantastic books too.
Visit this page for a synopsis and reviews of book one BOUDICA I: DREAMING THE EAGLE http://www.mandascott.co.uk/?page=book&title=25
Then buy the book and enjoy!
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| Posted 10-11-2005 at 06:20
Robert Goddard - Sight Unseen
Take a look at the Amazon picture
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0552152102/026-2400529-6940438
It is set in Avebury.
Any have anything to say on the book?
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| Posted 10-11-2005 at 21:05
Going back to an earlier mention of "The Lion,the witch and the wardrobe," does anyone remember the 60's series on a Sunday night? Six parts I think.
I remember Aslan being sacrificed on what looked like a dolmen before the mice freed him.
Remember the Old Magic or even Older Magic going back to the dawn of time. Even CS Lewis, christian though he was, seems to acknowledge that earlier religions had a part to play in the scheme of things.
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| Posted 10-11-2005 at 21:43
Yes I remember it well and an excellent production it was too. The White Witch was gorgeous - was she played by Kate Nelligan or Barbara Kellerman?
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| Posted 12-11-2005 at 20:51
The Uffington/Waylands series mentioned above was the Moon Stallion, I remember it from 1978:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134256/
A young girl named Diana (played by a young Sarah Sutton, later to star in Dr Who), her archeologist father and her brother visit friends in Berkshire near the site of the ancient Celtic horse cut into a chalky hillside. Though Diana is blind, she has the "sight" which connects her to a mysterious white stallion, to an ancient legend of Arthur as a Celtic chieftain, and to danger from others who seek paranormal power.
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| Posted 13-11-2005 at 16:40
http://www.peteralfredplease.co.uk/
A book for children, but beautifully written, "The Chronicles of the White Horse".
The white horse is the Uffington one, and the story revolves around a boy and a mole, but with lots of spiritual allusions slipping out of one world to another, its also to be read for its understanding of the natural world. The final denoucement between good and evil is played out in Wayland Smithy. A bit like Tolkien's play on good triumphing over evil, a particularly catholic view of the world, which of course can also be seen in the Lion, Witch and Wardrobe. Peter Please must have come from around Uffington, like Tolkien who lived in Oxford, they both must have been profoundly influenced by the surrounding landscapes...
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| Posted 14-11-2005 at 03:51
The feature film that still entertains me is "The Wicker Man", starring Edward Woodward as Sgt. Howie who goes to Summer Isle to investigate the disappearence of a girl only to find a collusion of the girl, the islanders(played by Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt, etal), and Lord SummerIsle played by Christopher Lee. There is a lot of symbolism in the movie together with women dancing about the megaliths. An enchanting and thoughtful film with a little tongue-in-cheek.
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| Posted 14-11-2005 at 13:12
Great film and now has cult status. Christopher Lee reckons its his best film
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