Posted on 12/29/2010 6:27:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A team of experts hope to shed new light on one of Nottinghamshire's most mysterious ancient monuments.
A 'Thing', or open-air meeting place where Vikings gathered to discuss the law, was discovered in the Birklands, Sherwood Forest, five years ago...
It started after husband and wife team Lynda Mallett and Stuart Reddish, along with their friend John Wood, came into possession of a 200 year old document.
It described a walk around part of Sherwood Forest which marked an ancient boundary.
They searched for the boundary on the landscape and found a place called Hanger Hill on which stood three stones.
The historians, from Rainworth, researched further and found that the same place was called Thynghowe on a 1609 map...
"A 'thyng' is the name of a Viking assembly site while a 'howe' is possibly a Bronze Age burial ground," said Lynda...
References to Nottinghamshire's Thynghowe have been found in an ancient Forest Book dating back to the 1200s.
The site is also thought to be a bronze age burial mound...
However, it may date back much further, as 'howe' is a term often used to indicate a prehistoric burial place...
"We've got documentary evidence that people met there right up to the 1800s. Local people were still meeting up there and raising each others spirits 200 years ago," said Stuart.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Sherwood forest?
Not my fault!
I’m going to have to thyng about this first. Howe are they going to probe the forest?
They’ll probably have to barrow some remote imaging techniques.
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