Dear Trevor,
I agree with you completely. These things have obviously caught the
attention and interest of many by their obvious antiquity. There is a superb
Bronze Age settlement somewhere (at least - since there are earlier settlements
within a five mile radius), very little known, rarely visited - and remote
thankfully - that I have been to many times just to ponder 'the system' and
thinking that went into it's construction and operation, to think on the
workings of it's structures and associated enclosures - and in combination
with the surrounding half a mile or so. It is obvious that there was a
significant level of agricultural knowledge... this knowledge did not develop
there, it had been known long before. For some reason or another it was
eventually abandoned, and, as has been said before within this gnrl. subject,
climate conditions are a factor to be considered... whatever be they case
they moved on eventually for whatever reason, but when they went they left
behind them something that had taken a long time to establish - and it was
never re-used... just left to the winds of time.
The re-use of 'things' (whether inferred or proven), creates all sorts of
problems... just takes a bit of time to unravel that's all! Patience,
Persistence, and Determination!
Regards, Bernard
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