Megalithic shipping and trade routes

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[Boreades]

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It's not a question of folk memory but practicality. E.g. white arrows are painted on tree trunks as waymarkers in woods.

The 'tradition' of throwing coins into a well seems to be part of the well-developed medieval pilgrimage industry.

Shell beaches are dazzlingly white. They're supposed to be natural features but if so, why are they so rare?

[Boreades]

Ah yes, white pebbles are in some ways more practical than painting white lines on the road.

Pray remind me, what's practical about voltive offerings?

[Mick Harper]

They are tolls. Megalithics were always looking for ways for tolls to be paid but not to be nicked by the next wayfarer. Once a month it was worth going in to collect it all.

[Boreades]

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[Boreades]

[TisILeclerc]

I was wondering if Tel Dor in Israel had any connection with Dorset or Durdle Dor or even Durness at the other end of the Belinus line.

[Mick Harper]

Both Marazion (reputedly Cornwall's oldest town) and Camelford have been cited as Carthaginian/Phoenician names. I am intrigued by the three Carthaginian hotspots (Cornwall doesn't seem to be one!) of Poole, Thanet and Liverpool. We know all about the first two but this is the first time the Mersey has featured in anything. This is itself strange since it would seem far superior for Irish trade than the Dee estuary which everyone seems to have used instead. We need to know what attracted the Carthaginians here. Cue a song from Gerry Marsden.