[HN Gopher] Cornish monument is 4k years older than was thought ...
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       Cornish monument is 4k years older than was thought and 'without
       parallel'
        
       Author : zeristor
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2024-11-09 07:37 UTC (4 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | mikhailfranco wrote:
       | I think 'without parallel' is an exaggeration.
       | 
       | The Kennet Long Barrow is similar age, shape and construction:
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Kennet_Long_Barrow
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       | Similar barrows exist across southern England, and in the wider
       | Atlantic coast region, from Spain to Brittany and Ireland:
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotswold-Severn_Group
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       | The only unusual about King Arthur's Hall is the apparent absence
       | of burial chambers.
        
         | barrow_dude wrote:
         | I'm an American and my last name is Kinnett, I've often
         | wondered if I have ancestry going back to this place? Doubtful
         | but fun to think about.
        
           | card_zero wrote:
           | This cluster of surnames lead back to the Roman settlement
           | Cunetio, now Mildenhall, the River Kennet, and a Celtic word
           | for "dog".
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           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunetio
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           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Kennet
           | 
           | That's assuming yours isn't from something unrelated such as
           | Kinnettles in Scotland.
        
         | woadwarrior01 wrote:
         | Yeah, I'm from Ireland and Newgrange[1] was the first thing
         | that came to my mind when I read this.
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         | [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange
        
         | vdvsvwvwvwvwv wrote:
         | Australian aboroginal artifacts date back 10000s of years but
         | not sure if they have something like these rock structures from
         | that long ago. But I wouldn't be suprised.
        
         | abeppu wrote:
         | Do archaeologists or other relevant experts have any sense of
         | how common these things were / what fraction have been
         | destroyed either through natural processes or human activity?
         | Are there a smallish number of these sites because they were
         | always rare (and took a lot of labor to build) or were there a
         | lot more of these but like a lot of them were deconstructed by
         | iron age farmers or something?
        
       | yungtriggz wrote:
       | But it's Cornish
        
         | CapeTheory wrote:
         | Someone paid a Cornish builder to work on their patio, this is
         | how far he got. I'm sure he'll finish it dreckly.
        
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