Is back......
Apr. 1st, 2006 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
weaselettFresh from a whistlestop week - is tired - v tired- walked much - saw much - many photos of the companions at various sites. Had to clean - my housemates - grrrrr - glass? frigging glass? you'd think they'd clean beofre going away for three weeks wouldn't you? *sigh*. also - timetable for next term - god *head desk* - no revision sesions but ONE marked on it. it looks like i have like, four weeks of being bored till the exams - which isn't good - no work leading up to exams means weasel stops thinking about the work i need to learn for exams. Starts culivating plot bunnies.....*sigh*
oh well
This past week, i went fossil hunting (fun, and wet), went to maiden castle again, saw the cerne giant (he needs clothes, nods saggely), the 'most recent chalk horse' but only one with a rider, went to Corfe Castle, and was reminded that kids are still at school....the swannery up the coast, three abbeys (well, ruins), house hunted with parentals, and finally, y-day we went to glastonbury. Nods saggely. further information behind a cut, because, no spoilers, not really, i haven't seen season nine yet peeps....
Glastonbury tor ISN'T avalon. Nope. Glastonbury ABBEY is Avalon. That's were the supposed tomb of arthur and gwen is. The abbey. Not the tor. The tower on which being st Michael's, built in the 15th cent (the present one...), based on a prehistoric site, most likely a hill fort looking at it. the tor's 521ft, due to the harder rock of the top. the base is really bad, erodable stuff. This doesn't have anything to do with Stargate really, it's just me getting peeved with 'american' ideas of british heritage. and the arthur legend is just the one that's most obvious at the moment. i'll move on to rome and alexander again soon enough....
The most entertaining thing about the Abbey? the evidence of how much the monks and abbot played people back then to get the money to build it. they had the holy thorn, that they were most of the time apparently replanting every year, plus it's a hawthorn. they don't grow in deserts. plus there's the tomb of gwen and arthur. the monks just happened to find this tomb in a graveyard that they more or less built around, that was arthurs and that they then proceeded to move. If anyone wants the pics of the place, let me know, will send them on.
The tor its self, is bloodly windy. especially in the windtunnel that is the ruin of the tower, which is more or less just a shell now, the ceilling and floors are all gone, as well as more of less all of the figures that were on the side, the one remaining 'monk' out of five (we guessed looking at the stands) is headless on one side. The view however, is brilliant, came see for miles. could have seen cadbury (one of the possible camalots for anyone interested, and also one of my lecturers projects) had it not been misty out that way. The tower also provoided some much needed shelter for photos time, nearly being blown of the side of a near vertical 521ft tor is NOT fun, no matter what some people might tell you.
the sides are done almost the ramparts of all the old hillforts, only it's like steps, there isn't any ditches, and its a bloodly steep climb. Being set in flat land as it is it looks impressive, with the ridges that come away from it, but i'd hate to try and built anything more than that tower in the higher summit, it's too small, and unsheltered, through it would have been easier back in st patrick's day when he first went up there 'through woodland'
So lessons learned y-day -'Avalon' can be found in the middle of the town of Glastonbury, in the form of the ruins of an abbey. If you go for that theory.....
personally, i think da's provoided condessed version of Bernard Cornwall's series, (winter king etc) is a better theory on that particular site....
oh well
This past week, i went fossil hunting (fun, and wet), went to maiden castle again, saw the cerne giant (he needs clothes, nods saggely), the 'most recent chalk horse' but only one with a rider, went to Corfe Castle, and was reminded that kids are still at school....the swannery up the coast, three abbeys (well, ruins), house hunted with parentals, and finally, y-day we went to glastonbury. Nods saggely. further information behind a cut, because, no spoilers, not really, i haven't seen season nine yet peeps....
Glastonbury tor ISN'T avalon. Nope. Glastonbury ABBEY is Avalon. That's were the supposed tomb of arthur and gwen is. The abbey. Not the tor. The tower on which being st Michael's, built in the 15th cent (the present one...), based on a prehistoric site, most likely a hill fort looking at it. the tor's 521ft, due to the harder rock of the top. the base is really bad, erodable stuff. This doesn't have anything to do with Stargate really, it's just me getting peeved with 'american' ideas of british heritage. and the arthur legend is just the one that's most obvious at the moment. i'll move on to rome and alexander again soon enough....
The most entertaining thing about the Abbey? the evidence of how much the monks and abbot played people back then to get the money to build it. they had the holy thorn, that they were most of the time apparently replanting every year, plus it's a hawthorn. they don't grow in deserts. plus there's the tomb of gwen and arthur. the monks just happened to find this tomb in a graveyard that they more or less built around, that was arthurs and that they then proceeded to move. If anyone wants the pics of the place, let me know, will send them on.
The tor its self, is bloodly windy. especially in the windtunnel that is the ruin of the tower, which is more or less just a shell now, the ceilling and floors are all gone, as well as more of less all of the figures that were on the side, the one remaining 'monk' out of five (we guessed looking at the stands) is headless on one side. The view however, is brilliant, came see for miles. could have seen cadbury (one of the possible camalots for anyone interested, and also one of my lecturers projects) had it not been misty out that way. The tower also provoided some much needed shelter for photos time, nearly being blown of the side of a near vertical 521ft tor is NOT fun, no matter what some people might tell you.
the sides are done almost the ramparts of all the old hillforts, only it's like steps, there isn't any ditches, and its a bloodly steep climb. Being set in flat land as it is it looks impressive, with the ridges that come away from it, but i'd hate to try and built anything more than that tower in the higher summit, it's too small, and unsheltered, through it would have been easier back in st patrick's day when he first went up there 'through woodland'
So lessons learned y-day -'Avalon' can be found in the middle of the town of Glastonbury, in the form of the ruins of an abbey. If you go for that theory.....
personally, i think da's provoided condessed version of Bernard Cornwall's series, (winter king etc) is a better theory on that particular site....
