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AVELINE’S HOLE
…. is a cave at Burrington Combe in Somerset, England and is the earliest scientifically dated cemetery in Britain. The human bone fragments it contained were from about 21 different individuals, are thought to be between 10,200 and 10,400 years old.A series of inscribed crosses found on the cave wall are believed to date from the early Mesolithic period which came just after the last Ice Age. The pattern is said to be comparable with others known from Northern France, Germany and Denmark. A gate has been installed in the cave to protect the engraving, after consultations between English Heritage,the landowner and English Nature.
The cave was discovered in 1797 by two men digging for a rabbit and was excavated and the entrance enlarged in 1860 by William Boyd Dawkins who named it after his mentor William Talbot Aveline.
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Archaeology in caves. Awesome.
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"Every land should be a holy land. One should find the symbol in the landscape itself of the energies of life there. That’s what all early traditions do. They sanctify their own landscape."
Joseph Campbell
True myth may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero — really look — and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. “You must change your life,” he said. When true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life."
Ursula K LeGuin
