There are some remarkable stone heads on the corbels of All Saints church, Kilham. This church is very definitely on a pre-christian site. No pictures on the web and I can't get up there to photograph them myself
stonedoggy said:good update AND a photo... happy happy!
does it continue on adjacent stones?
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stonedoggy said:Did you get an idea of the date range there Austen?
Kath
Eburacum45 said:Some stuff about these heads and an example or two in the museum at Skipton...
A retired fisherman has discovered an ancient stone head that experts say could be 24,000 years old — the oldest found in Britain.
Arthur Mack, 70, found the 5in stone head while he was walking off Long Island in Langstone Harbour, Hampshire. Archaeologists say the find could be a piece of Neanderthal art made by cave dwellers who were once thought too primitive for creative thinking. A similar stone head was found in a Neanderthal cave in northern France and was dated to 28,000BC.
The ancient stone would have been carved into a face by a caveman thousands of years ago. Mr Mack, of Portsmouth, said: “There was a face poking out of the cliffs in some mud and it scared the living daylights out of me. I think the tide must have exposed it.
“I have found stone flints and axe heads before but nothing like this. It is a work of art and shows how much skill these ancient civilisations had."