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I think 'without parallel' is an exaggeration. The Kennet Long Barrow is similar age, shape and construction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Kennet_Long_B
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
I think 'without parallel' is an exaggeration.
The Kennet Long Barrow is similar age, shape and construction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Kennet_Long_Barrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Kennet_Long_Barrow
Similar barrows exist across southern England, and in the wider Atlantic coast region, from Spain to Brittany and Ireland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotswold-Severn_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotswold-Severn_Group
The only unusual about King Arthur's Hall is the apparent absence of burial chambers.
- barrow_dude 2y agoI'm an American and my last name is Kinnett, I've often wondered if I have ancestry going back to this place? Doubtful but fun to think about.
- card_zero 2y agoThis cluster of surnames lead back to the Roman settlement Cunetio, now Mildenhall, the River Kennet, and a Celtic word for "dog". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunetio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunetio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Kennet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Kennet That's assuming yours isn't from something unrelated such as Kinnettles in Scotland.
- fsckboy 2y ago>That's assuming yours isn't from something unrelated such as Kinnettles in Scotland unrelated, you mean, to Mildenhall in Suffolk, because isn't a word from Cornwall more like than that to be related to a Celtic language name?
- card_zero 2y agoI meant unrelated to "Kennet". We seemed to be talking about West Kennet long barrow by this point. I'm not sure which two of the three things (Kinnettles, Mildenhall, and Cornish names) you're comparing. If you're saying it's outrageous to find a Celtic place name in Suffolk, you're right, except this is a name from Roman times, when Romans were Romanizing Brittonic Britons and the Anglo-Saxons hadn't yet got a look in. And river names tend to be the oldest names and full of debated and unexplained elements, such as the "Or" in Orwell, and the Ouse.
- woadwarrior01 2y agoYeah, I'm from Ireland and Newgrange[1] was the first thing that came to my mind when I read this. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange
- vdvsvwvwvwvwv 2y agoAustralian aboroginal artifacts date back 10000s of years but not sure if they have something like these rock structures from that long ago. But I wouldn't be suprised.
- helpfulContrib 2y ago[dead]
- abeppu 2y agoDo archaeologists or other relevant experts have any sense of how common these things were / what fraction have been destroyed either through natural processes or human activity? Are there a smallish number of these sites because they were always rare (and took a lot of labor to build) or were there a lot more of these but like a lot of them were deconstructed by iron age farmers or something?
- mmooss 2y agoWhy does the OP say it's 'without parallel'?