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| Submitted by | AngieLake |
| Added | Jun 22 2011 |
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The site noticeboard has a plan of how the site would have looked originally. Sorry it is a bit fuzzy, but it'll help to interpret the layout.
(I dowsed briefly and found the horns of the forecourt extending further to the south, touching the present-day hedge. This involved walking around at a much lower level as the fenced area of the dolmen is raised up on a bank.)
(I dowsed briefly and found the horns of the forecourt extending further to the south, touching the present-day hedge. This involved walking around at a much lower level as the fenced area of the dolmen is raised up on a bank.)
Posted Comments:
AngieLake (2011-06-22)
There may have been another passage in the mound on the narrowing western side, not far into the field. At first I thought it was the end of the mound, but Adam explained that the crop-growth seemed to indicate it terminating further into the field. Excavations are to take place soon.
AngieLake (2022-07-24)
This was my comment from the visit in 2011 after dowsing Arthur's Stone. Adam Stanford came with me into the field across the road while I was dowsing, but I don't remember if he saw me dowsing the horns of the forecourt.
AngieLake (2023-01-08)
Did anyone see Digging for Britain on BBC2 tonight (2/6 in the current series)? Adam Stanford was interviewed and had some very high-tech new ways of surveying using a drone. The dig seemed to be on the other side of the hedge, to the left, where the forecourt was uncovered. (I was generally right dowsing that it was 'further south'.) Interesting about the avenue of posts leading towards the forecourt. This would explain why my rods usually open and close several times leading to the entrance to burial chambers, ie: Cairnholy1 https://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=54465&orderby=dateD, and what may have been an avenue of posts at Drift Stones: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=214422&orderby=dateD. But in 2011 when I was with Adam here, I dowsed the mound to be back across the road, into the field to the right in the image above. They seemed to find it to the left, in front of the current stones. (I must watch it again sometime on i-Player.
peatpot (2023-01-09)
Wow. I'm definitely gonna try and watch this episode!
Bladup (2023-01-09)
I'm the same as you Angie, Everytime i've been there (At least 4 differnet times) i've been "pulled" to the thinner end of the mound in the field over the road, I'm even starting to think that maybe the "false entrance" and the so called Forecourt (and posts) were in fact the back of the monument to the builders, With the thinner ends of the mounds the actual entrances, You just never know what the builders were thinking, I've learnt to question everything we're taught as "fact" though
Bladup (2023-01-09)
This works quite well at Belas Knap as well, With the false entrance (a symbolic vagina) and forecourt been the back or bottom, With the bones of the dead been placed with"in" the chambers, For them to be reborn "out" of the false entrance (vagina), A literal rebirth.
In this sense the thinner end would be the front entrance (To the bones) and the forecourt end the back exit, You just never know!
In this sense the thinner end would be the front entrance (To the bones) and the forecourt end the back exit, You just never know!
AngieLake (2023-01-10)
Hi Paul, you would have had more time in four visits (lucky man) to come to that conclusion, and I was surprised that they hadn't mentioned the mound extending back into the field across the lane. I did wonder if my dowsing was influenced by the diagram on the info board (above), and the mention of it being 'partly truncated by the road'. But Adam seemed persuaded that the mound would have been there because of the crop growth outline (see 2nd comment above). My rods indicated another entrance from the western side, which would have matched the existing passage into Arthur's Stone monument further south. The forecourt would have been for rituals, and I'm convinced that The Skirrid was a focal point of that, and the orientation of the chambered tomb. (A great sight for the emerging new 'rebirth' as you suggested.) If the forecourt was much more to the left, the single stone (which was like a gun-sight to The Skirrid) must not have formed part of the forecourt as described in the diagram above. Of course, this photo was taken in 2011, and may have been replaced with newer info since then!
Not having visited Belas Knap, I've been thinking of Capel Garmon, and the false entrance forecourt there: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=220717&orderby=dateD.
in my 2006 dowse. However, in my memory of that single visit, I don't recall the view being anything special, but from the other end of the mound there would have been views of the lovely mountains: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&gid=92&pid=21971&orderby=dateD. There are better shots than my old photo on the site page.
Not having visited Belas Knap, I've been thinking of Capel Garmon, and the false entrance forecourt there: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=220717&orderby=dateD.
in my 2006 dowse. However, in my memory of that single visit, I don't recall the view being anything special, but from the other end of the mound there would have been views of the lovely mountains: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&gid=92&pid=21971&orderby=dateD. There are better shots than my old photo on the site page.
Bladup (2023-01-11)
I agree, it's a beautiful view of the mountains from Capel Garmon and yes the false entrance suggests similar builds/beliefs, and your photos are just fine
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