"and a fourth possible example, the Coffin Stone" Well, the Coffin Stone isn't really a fourth possible example; it may have once been a part of a fourth example. Similar issue a few lines earlier; "If they were parts of a destroyed chambered long barrow, then the White Horse Stones would have been built" - the stones weren't built, the barrows were.
I've changed the first instance to "part of a fourth possible example"; the second I've changed to "If the White Hose Stones were originally components of chambered long barrows, then they would have been erected by pastoralist communities shortly after the introduction of agriculture to Britain from continental Europe." Do you think that this does the trick?
Midnightblueowl (
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10:53, 6 September 2019 (UTC)reply
"by various Folkish Heathen groups, namely the Odinic Rite" including, perhaps?
"The eastern group consists of Smythe's Megalith, Kit's Coty House, Little Kit's Coty House, the Coffin Stone, and several other stones which might have once been parts of chambered tombs, most notably the White Horse Stone." Again - referring to a stone as a barrow!
"was located in the northwest angle of the Pilgrims' Road and the Rochester-to-Maidstone road" Maybe this is my problem, but I don't know what this means
I believe it means that the stone existed in an area of land located inside just to the north-west where the Rochester-to-Maidstone road (now the A229, but then probably little more than a trackway) was bisected by the Pilgrims' Way. I'll try and make that clearer in the article.
Midnightblueowl (
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11:14, 6 September 2019 (UTC)reply
"probably now under the dual carriageway." Which road, sorry?
"In 1842, Douglas Allport included a woodcut of the Lower White Horse Stone in his book on the nearby town of Maidstone" Do we have this? It'd be a great addition to the article! (Or Post's sketch, but maybe the copyright situation would be trickier there...)
I've had a comparatively quick look through the usual sources (Google Books, Internet Archive etc) and they don't seem to have digitised versions of Allport's book, which is a shame.
Midnightblueowl (
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11:41, 6 September 2019 (UTC)reply
"and a fourth possible example, the Coffin Stone" Well, the Coffin Stone isn't really a fourth possible example; it may have once been a part of a fourth example. Similar issue a few lines earlier; "If they were parts of a destroyed chambered long barrow, then the White Horse Stones would have been built" - the stones weren't built, the barrows were.
I've changed the first instance to "part of a fourth possible example"; the second I've changed to "If the White Hose Stones were originally components of chambered long barrows, then they would have been erected by pastoralist communities shortly after the introduction of agriculture to Britain from continental Europe." Do you think that this does the trick?
Midnightblueowl (
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10:53, 6 September 2019 (UTC)reply
"by various Folkish Heathen groups, namely the Odinic Rite" including, perhaps?
"The eastern group consists of Smythe's Megalith, Kit's Coty House, Little Kit's Coty House, the Coffin Stone, and several other stones which might have once been parts of chambered tombs, most notably the White Horse Stone." Again - referring to a stone as a barrow!
"was located in the northwest angle of the Pilgrims' Road and the Rochester-to-Maidstone road" Maybe this is my problem, but I don't know what this means
I believe it means that the stone existed in an area of land located inside just to the north-west where the Rochester-to-Maidstone road (now the A229, but then probably little more than a trackway) was bisected by the Pilgrims' Way. I'll try and make that clearer in the article.
Midnightblueowl (
talk)
11:14, 6 September 2019 (UTC)reply
"probably now under the dual carriageway." Which road, sorry?
"In 1842, Douglas Allport included a woodcut of the Lower White Horse Stone in his book on the nearby town of Maidstone" Do we have this? It'd be a great addition to the article! (Or Post's sketch, but maybe the copyright situation would be trickier there...)
I've had a comparatively quick look through the usual sources (Google Books, Internet Archive etc) and they don't seem to have digitised versions of Allport's book, which is a shame.
Midnightblueowl (
talk)
11:41, 6 September 2019 (UTC)reply