In a message dated 99-06-28 15:13:42 EDT, [log in to unmask] writes:
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> Some non-hilltop sites could still represent pre-Christian sacred
> sites (for example, Guiting Power church next to a large Bronze Age
> enclosure) or cemetery sites (Christian and/or pre-Christian, for
> example Bishop's Cleeve). There's no denying the associations, or the
> non-random spatial distributions.
>
Interesting suggestion. Hmmm......
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Well, the Michaelmount (Din Sul) in Cornwall has a 14th century castle
built on top of a 10th century monastery (Benedictine) built on top of a
neolithic burial ground (evidenced by pots and neolithic flint arrows).
Ellen Evert Hopman
http://www.neopagan.net/WillowsGrove/Index.html
"May I be a hill on the shore, may I be a staff to the weak, may I be a star
in the waning of the moon".
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