tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post654434881895090875..comments2024-03-28T14:00:12.372+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: Garn Ffoi -- prehistoric stock management features?BRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-46837802176503903132015-05-24T08:25:13.677+01:002015-05-24T08:25:13.677+01:00Sounds thoroughly idyllic, Dave! Sitting in the s...Sounds thoroughly idyllic, Dave! Sitting in the sun somewhere, glass of red wine in hand, watching the world go by.......BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-63981633645437724262015-05-24T07:04:22.543+01:002015-05-24T07:04:22.543+01:00I might indeed have something to say.
I looked at...I might indeed have something to say.<br /><br />I looked at this area a long time ago, very interesting with a mix of prehistoric and later features. The Dyfed Archaeological Trust have put up a report on their website about some work carried out recently here, which will be the most recent view.<br /><br />I guess all the straight lines are 19th century field boundaries and the parallel ones are probably an attempt to plant shelter belts.<br /><br />What I find odd is the need to have these funnel boundaries. Today's shepherds and their dogs, usually get the sheep into the right pen. Perhaps earlier dogs and sheep were less obedient.<br /><br />Where I am at the moment, flocks of sheep are herded all day long by a boy and a stick and sometimes a dog, which usually is not interested. The controls are extremely docile sheep, who know the daily routine and stones thrown by the boy to keep the sheep out of the field of barley or alfalfa next door. There is a complete absence of field boundaries or hedges.<br /><br />Cows, horses and donkeys are individually tied by a rope and just get moved every so often to some water. <br /><br />We also pass everyday, a man herding geese, about 50 or 60 or them. The last few days he's taken a chair with him.<br /><br />DaveDave Maynardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162915474983638825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-84445602212305949552015-05-20T23:45:30.944+01:002015-05-20T23:45:30.944+01:00
Dave M. might have something to say about the da... <br />Dave M. might have something to say about the date for these walls i.e. also medieval . Geo Curhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03616965043116389325noreply@blogger.com