In a message dated 99-06-28 15:13:42 EDT, [log in to unmask] writes: << > 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...... >> 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". %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%