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Submitted by JohnB on Friday, 03 June 2011  Page Views: 4182

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Assycombe submitted by stonedowser : This view is from the top end of the row looking downhill. Ian. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A very interesting issue including stone rows, more about Tigh nam Bodach celtic shrine, the summer solstice and orbs, "the ectoplasm of our age", observes John Billingsley. Here are the details

Northern Earth 126 Contents

Mike Haigh’s Archaeology Review
Not all straight tracks are Roman... Other topics Mike summarises are Mesolithic well rites, Neanderthal family customs and rock art on a Welsh dolmen

Twilight of the Celtic Gods?
David Clarke’s lament for the ancient family who may be driven from their wild glen in the Highlands

Stone Rows: a practical solution
Ritual and cosmos are all very well, but, as Roger Hutchins asks, do they sometimes obscure a plain view of human necessity?

Where The Sun Rises at the Summer Solstice
Robert W E Farrah suggests that a crude diagram in a Cumbrian church may be our first record of astronomical associations at megalithic sites

Circular Arguments (1)
Readers discuss crop circles
Circular Arguments (2)
Orbs? What’s that all about?

Having Your Say
Readers share their thoughts on heads, the hummadruz, giants and saints

The Contested Remains of Mary Bateman
Bateman was a convicted murderer and fraudulent ‘witch’ - but Layla Smith asks if that justifies her posthumous treatment

An Edge of Contention
Jeremy Harte considers Alan Garner’s ‘By Seven Firs and Goldenstone’

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Re: Tigh nam Bodach and Stone Rows by TimPrevett on Tuesday, 07 June 2011
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Sorry for the crude humour, but perhaps Roger didn't want it too close to 'Assy'. Interesting to see from Assycombe, it is followed by 'Piles Hill'. ;o)
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Tigh nam Bodach and Stone Rows by Andy B on Friday, 03 June 2011
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I had resisted doing a site page for Tigh nam Bodach but from the information in NE I'm thinking perhaps we should.

You can read some of Roger's early ideas on stone rows here
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146412653
and of course we list all the sites he refers to, some being

Assycombe (which Roger spells with an 'i' for some reason)
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2080

Piles Hill
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1738

Hurston Ridge
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8345
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