Northern Earth Issue 172 Out Now
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Events
In this issue: • Megalithic construction techniques: Trapezoidal long barrows - John Hill demonstrates how Neolithic builders may have approached the building of Capel Garmon and similar long barrows.• Were the Wollaton Gnomes ‘intelligent light forms’? - This celebrated ‘fairy’ sighting is mysterious however you view it. Mave Calvert suggests another perspective.
• The Folkton Drums - Were these charming Bronze Age artefacts ‘for’ anything, or were they simply toys, as some have suggested? John Billingsley throws in another suggestion
• Meldine & the prophecies of the sea - Traditions of seer-ship linger in the lowlands of the
Netherlands, as Remco van Straten and Angeline Adams explain
• Having Your Say- Further discussion of royal geomancy, cuckoos... and a
hint of Quatermass
• All Things Considered - Magic’s role in the political life of Britain, a quest for a mythological landscape in S Wales, and overviews of planetary influence, astrology and European history
• Evil dayes in July- A curious find enlivens an archive visit
• Mike Haigh’s Archaeology Review - Another investigation into hidden meanings in cave art, Neanderthal social diversity, and history for hens
• Egyptians ate testicles - another of the editor’s random finds
From the website - Free access: • The Alt-Antiquarian - The arcane and obscure may enliven some neo-antiquarian conversations, but may also obscure a toxic political subtext
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