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Megalithic
Sites of Ancient Britain in England and Wales:
England
Southwest | Cornwall
| Devon
| England South
| Herefordshire
| Oxfordshire
| Gloucestershire
| Stonehenge
| Wiltshire
| England
Southeast | West Sussex
| Lewes | East Sussex
| Kent | Berkshire
| Wayland's
Smithy
| Bedford
| Derbyshire
| Peak District
| Creswell Crags
| Lancashire
| West Yorkshire
| Snowden Carr
| East Yorkshire
| North
Yorkshire
| Northumberland
| Cumberland
| Isle of Man
| North Wales
| South Wales
England South Central
| Rollright Stones | Kings
Stone | Whispering
Knights | The Rollright Virgo Stone |
The
Probable Rollright Survey Triangulation | Fallen Stones at the
Rollrights |
| The Circle of Rollright
Stones | Rollright Stones
Entrance |
| Hoar
Stones Enstone | Minchinhampton
| Lyneham Stone |
| Harold's
Stones Trellech | Chadlington
Hawk Stone |
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Megaliths Deciphered
ENGLAND
SOUTH CENTRAL
OXFORDSHIRE
! This
page is a bit for fun
and very speculative !
THE
LYNEHAM
BARROW STONE
Lyneham is ca. 8 km
southwest of Chipping Norton
The
Lyneham Barrow Stone
shows the stars of Cepheus
as cupmarks,
using the stars of that
constellation
as the basic components
of two distinct human faces
carved on either side of the megalith.
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Update, 2013:
Mediterranean type axe carvings
have now been found at Stonehenge
by laser scanning. Well, interesting.
But it may have nothing
to do with Lyneham.
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Legends
of the Scots, Welsh and Irish
claim that there was influx to the
British Isles
from the Mediterranean Sea in ancient days
and that the
ancient kings of Britain
were related to the Pharaohs.
The Lyneham
Megalith may suggest
that these legends are true,
since one side of the
stone
looks definitely Pharaonic
and the other apparently indigenous,
but it could also just be
a man and a woman
with gender hairstyles.
In
recent years Norse-type longboats
capable of sea voyages
have been
found at Abydos in Egypt,
dating to ca. 3000 BC.
What is the
significance of these boats?
Were there
ancient ties
between Egypt and the British Isles?
Ivory
and wooden tablets of Pharaoh Djer
could be interpreted to indicate
that one son of a pharaoh
departed for distant lands.
Was
there some kind
of technology transfer at this time?
There is much
similarity
between the stone work on the Orkneys,
for example, and the
pyramids,
both showing corbelling and cladding technology
not in
evidence elsewhere at this time.
Below
is a replica of the Djer tablets,
showing a pharaonic figure
being held in the air
and being taken to a boat.
Someone either left
voluntarily or was
exiled,
and based on the above tablets,
went off in a boat.
Who went? And where did they go?
We
suggest very speculatively
that these tablets may relate
to the start of the journey
of the
ARGONAUTS,
and although called "Greeks" in later legend
these may not
be the Greeks of Hellenistic Athens,
but their relations far before that
era,
who could be the Minyans (Minoans?) of Egypt,
for the kinds
of boat(s) which the ARGONAUTS used
are first in evidence in ca. 3000
BC (e.g. at Abydos)
and already are well-known
by the time of Hellenistic
Greece.
Perhaps the boats found at Abydos
which were found at the
temple of Hor-Aha
(who we equate with King Orry and King Arthur)
ARE
the boats of Jason and the Argonauts,
who were sent of to find
the
Golden Fleece at Colchis.
See the
Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius
at
http://sunsite
berkeley.edu/OMACL/Argonautica/
and
Bulfinch's Mythology
at http://www.bulfinch.org/fables/bull17.html
where it is written as follows:
"There was another
kingdom in Thessaly
near to that of Athamas,
and ruled over by a relative of his.
The king AEson
[Our comment:
Hor-Aha?],
being tired of the cares of government,
surrendered his crown
to his brother Pelias
[Our comment:
Djer?]
on condition that he should hold it
only during the minority of Jason
[Our comment:
Den?],
the son of AEson.
When Jason was grown up
and came to demand the crown
from his uncle,
Pelias pretended to be willing to yield it,
but at the
same time
suggested to the young man
the glorious adventure
of going in
quest of the Golden Fleece,
which it was well known
was in the kingdom
of Colchis, and was,
as Pelias pretended,
the rightful property of
their family.
Jason was pleased with the thought
and forthwith made
preparations
for the expedition.
At that time the only species of
navigation
known to the Greeks consisted of small boats
or canoes
hollowed out from trunks of trees
[this puts the date back to several millennia
prior to Hellenistic Greece],
so that when Jason employed Argus
to build him a vessel
capable of
containing fifty men,
it was considered a gigantic undertaking
[and one that needed previous technology].
It was accomplished, however,
and the vessel named "Argo,"
from the
name of the builder....
Jason sent his invitation
to all the
adventurous young men of Greece,
and soon found himself
at the head of
a band of bold youths,
many of whom afterwards were renowned
among the
heroes and demigods of Greece.
Hercules, Theseus,
Orpheus, and Nestor
were among them.
They are called the Argonauts,
from the name of their
vessel."
[We add: argos
could have meant
"Earth, Clay".
The Argonauts were
"the first surveyors of the Earth".]
Well, that is the
speculative theory.
Years that come will prove
if it has any basis.
If so, perhaps the megaliths
in fact have a connection.
Update, 2013:
Mediterranean type axe carvings
have now been found at Stonehenge
by laser scanning. Well, interesting.
But it may have nothing
to do with Lyneham.
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