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Re: Smallacombe Rocks Settlement - Haytor's symbolism? by AngieLake on Tuesday, 07 August 2012

Maybe the ancient settlers at Smallacombe Rocks - and other Dartmoor dwellers with a similar view of Haytor's protruding rocks - saw them as symbolic of bull's horns rather than a Mother Earth/ Goddess shape?
Here is an example, from the far NE of Dartmoor at Mardon Down:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=44051
and the ridge mentioned in the Smallacombe Rocks settlement's description, including Honeybag and Chinkwell Tors, also features in the view from Mardon:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&gid=102&pid=44052&orderby=dateD
(I think I was using a film camera rather than digital at Mardon, so apologies for the quality of photos. Also a duller day.)

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