The Rudstone Monolith

[poliphilo]

The tallest prehistoric monolith in Britain. It stands around 25 feet high, is made of millstone grit and has been in place for something like 4,000 years. 

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I like that phrase.

Another place we visited was the Saxon church at Appleton-le-Street. It's built on Roman cemetery which may well- in its turn- have been located at a prehistoric sacred site.

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

We see this a lot... a modern church built on the site of a medieval church but on the site of a prehistoric mound or something like it. We will never know what most of these hierophanies were, only that someone thought they were important enough to preserve.