Merehenge? or pile dwellings?
Merehenge, Merehenges? or pile dwellings with lots and lots of bones. or sacrifices? The round Meres of Norfolk appear to be very unusual for English Meres. Would the ancients have realised this and either worshipped or sacrificed stuff there? Were the Norfolk Meres special energy spots? Did the ancients see them being created in an Electric Universe event? Are these related to Seahenge?
from a gEUlogy ponit of view it is interesting that Mickle Mere is found between 2 types of land, Boulder Clay to its North and Loam on its South considering it lies in a Chalk area.
or did they just use the fact that they were a good place for water to build pile dwellings there?
The following was printed in a sheet called
The Geology of the Country Around Attleborough, Watton, and Wymondham by Francis James Bennett.
Mickle Mere, six miles due south of Saham Mere, is by far the largest one, and contains 48 acres of water. Boulder Clay touches it on the north, and loam on the south, but Chalk is seen here and there around it, and it lies in a Chalk area.
Mickele Mere is of much interest, owing to the evidence of pile or lake dwellings found in it when drained and deepened by Mr.Birch in 1856.
Reference to Mickle Mere are by Sir Charles Bunbury in a paper written in 1856, entitled "Notice of some appearances observed on draining a Mere near Wretham Hall, Norfolk:" and also by Professor Newton in a paper read before the Cambridge Philosophical Socitety in 1862 (but separately printed) "On the Zoology of ancient Europe." Professor Newton also records the discovery of the fresh-water tortoise near Wretham in a paper entitled "On the discovery of ancient remains of Emys lutaria in Norfolk."
Sir Charles Bunbury states in his paper that when Mickle Mere was drained by Mr. Birch, 20 feet of black peaty mud formed the bottom, consisting of soft, rotten, unconsolidated peat; at about 15 feet in this peat was found a distinct horizontal layer, 2 to 6 inches thick in various parts, of compressed but undecayed moss of the species Hypnum fluitans. This moss was absent from some parts of the mud. Horns of the Red Deer were also found in the peaty mud at 5 or 6 feet below the surface; some horns were attached to the skull, and some seem to have been sawn of "by human agency". The peaty mud rested on a bed of light grey sandy marl "effervescing with acids." No traces of shells were seen, but pieces of birch and the trunk of an oak of considerable size were found. Impersistent layers of white sand were found in the mud, and a few flints and quartz pebbles.
Numerous posts of oak wood, shaped and pointed by human art, were found standing erect, entirely buried in the peat, and thus a great part of the mud overlaying the moss must have been accumulated before the Red Deer became extinct.
Mr. Troyon takes the evidence of the pointed oak posts found standing erect as proving the existence of pile buildings in Mickle Mere.
Mr. H. Stevenson states that besides the bones of the Red Deer found at Mickle Mere there were those of the Bos Longifrons, goat, and pig.
Mickle Mere - The Geology of the Country Around Attleborough, Watton, and Wymondham | books.google.com
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