I've started a new thread over on the AEL site to try to stimulate some discussion in Sheila McGregor's work.
http://www.applied-epistemology.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=26365#26365
{I'd love to hear Dan Crisp's take on it.. innit.}
Iona wrote: It is surely the case that monks' cells grew out of prison cells.
hvered wrote:Iona wrote: It is surely the case that monks' cells grew out of prison cells.
Our local market place has preserved its prison cell (just one!) which suggests it was an adapted animal pen. Come to think of it, every self-respecting village regularly put people in stocks.
macausland wrote:Boreades
Or we could pack it with ice in the winter and use it as a meat store?
I remember one in a local park many years ago shaped like an old fashioned domed beehive. I'm not sure when it was built, probably Victorian times or a bit earlier perhaps.
Chad wrote:All of this "life after decapitation" stuff... brings to mind the very Megalithic practice of coppicing.
spiral wrote:Chad wrote:All of this "life after decapitation" stuff... brings to mind the very Megalithic practice of coppicing.
It is metal working.
Chad wrote:spiral wrote:Chad wrote:All of this "life after decapitation" stuff... brings to mind the very Megalithic practice of coppicing.
It is metal working.
No Spiro, that would be way too recent... (though it may have added a later layer of stratification).
The roots ('scuse the pun) of this reach far deeper into pre-history... and the Green Man's involvement shows this relates to bush-craft and woodland management.
These are skills which date back to the first Mesolithic settlers... a time when metal working was nowt but science fiction.
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