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Photo Pages: Swastika Stone - Rock Art in England in Yorkshire (West)
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Submitted by andy_h on Wednesday, 17 January 2007 Page Views: 21248
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England
Site Name: Swastika Stone Country: England County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Ilkley
Map Ref: SE09554696 Landranger Map Number: 104
Latitude: 53.918697N Longitude: 1.856082W
Condition:| 5 | Perfect | | 4 | Almost Perfect | | 3 | Reasonable but with some damage | | 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site | | 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks | | 0 | No data. | | -1 | Completely destroyed |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access | | 4 | Short walk on a footpath | | 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk | | 2 | A long walk | | 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find | | 0 | No data. |
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Accuracy:| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates | | 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map | | 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map | | 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village | | 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town | | 0 | no data |
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External Links:            Swastika Stone, Woodhouse Crag, Ilkley Moor, West Yorkshire submitted by andy_h
Rock Art in West Yorkshire. The swastika motif is now badly worn, but is still possible to see a cross of cups, five by five, surrounded by four curved arms. The right hand one ending in a loop and cup mark.
BBC News: Boomerangs a 'British invention' says Horrible Histories author, see comment. It's not even the silly season yet.
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 Swastika Stone submitted by PeterSmith
The iron railings steadfastly protect the viewer from actually seeing anything that looks remotely like a Swastika. Just my eyes I guess.
 Swastika Stone submitted by PeterSmith
A freezing cold January afternoon gave the Swastika Stone a blue hue. The stone is badly worn but there are still dozens of visible cups covering its surface.
 Aussie Swastika Stone submitted by andy_h
Diagram of the Aussie Swastika Stone near Brisbane.
 Aussie Swastika Stone submitted by andy_h
The Aussie Swastika Stone near Brisbane.
Image credit: David Bird
 Swastika Stone submitted by andy_h
Art based on Swastika Stone, Ilkley Moor.
 Swastika Stone submitted by andy_h
 Swastika Stone submitted by DavidRaven
The Swastika Stone.
 Swastika Stone, Woodhouse Crag, Ilkley Moor, West Yorkshire submitted by andy_h
Thought to be one of the younger carvings on the moor dating from the end of the Bronze Age, possibly Iron Age. The design is marked on an outcrop, now surrounded by and iron fence. In front of the original carving is a 20th Century replica.
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Re: Boomerangs a 'British invention' (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Tuesday, 23 January 2007 | The shape appears in proto-Bulgarian as cross fourchee, >+<, read as letter A and with II is pronounced /ang/. It is seen as meaning "sacred vow (to Zeus)" and may relate to Celtic ang meaning "narrow spot. death". The Brahmi script promoted by Syrians has K back-to-front as letter A, which may relate to the Bulgarian shape. This led to Devanegari and Cham scripts of Brahmin Hindus, which have that reverse K for letter A. Champa ang means "numerals. respect", which suggests meaning for the Yorks. swastika. ANCyra fort in Asia Minor was visited by Alexander the Great, and is linked to ANGora goats for camelot goatwool cloth (OED 'camlat' 'chimere'). The Chimera goat there became guardian of Hades._H.Rose "Handbook Gr. Myth"p.83., which relates to Celtic ang "death" and the swastika symbol.
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Hindus opposing EU swastika ban (Score: 1)
by Andy B on Wednesday, 17 January 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | Hindus in Europe have joined forces against a German proposal to ban the display of the swastika across the European Union, a Hindu leader said.
Ramesh Kallidai of the Hindu Forum of Britain said the swastika had been a symbol of peace for thousands of years before the Nazis adopted it.
Germany took over the six-month EU presidency on 1 January, [just don't mention the war!].
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Re: Hindus opposing EU swastika ban (Score: 1)
by Klingon on Friday, 19 January 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Well, this is our goverment. Without giving it much thought they decide. |
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Re: Boomerangs a 'British invention' (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Thursday, 27 January 2005 | How can you say that it is 100% not a boomerang, when no-one knows for certain what it is. I was with a member of the Australian boomerang throwing team (now based in London) when we saw the images of the stone in the press. He immediately admitted that it looked exactly like a boomerang and that there are boomerangs on the market today that look identical tto this carving.
Terry Deary's point - "If it looks like a boomerang, and no-one else can prove it is anything else, then it probably is a boomerang" shouldn't be sniffed at. There are far too many historians and so called experts who dispell new theries far too soon without really looking at the possabities. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Boomerangs a 'British invention' (Score: 1)
by andy_h on Friday, 28 May 2004
(User Info | Send a Message) | It should be remembered here that Terry Deary has a new book out and is sponsored by a company called 'Boomerang'. So I suspect that this has more to do with publicity than any serious contribution to interpreting rock art.
It is probable that the carving dates from the Iron Age (c. 700 BC up to the Roman Invasion), not the Neolithic. The other rock art on the moor is mostly based on cup, ring and groove motifs and are quite broad and deep, being carved with stone tools and probably dating from the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. The carving of the swastika motif is much more shallow and narrower than the other carvings, and was probably carved with a metal tool (the picture that has appeared in many of the news items is of the 20th century reproduction that sits next to the original).
The swastika motif (sometimes called a Fylfot), appears all over Europe and Asia and was thought to have originated in Scandinavia and Germanic Europe. A similar motif was also used as a symbol for Brigid (also known as Brid, Bride, Brig, Brigantia and the christianised St Bridget), the Celtic spring goddess in the shape of a fylfot woven out of straw. As most of Yorkshire was inhabited by the Brigantine tribe during the Iron Age, it is possible that the carving may date from that time.
The motif on Ilkley Moor also has much in common with the 'Camunian Rose' found in the rock art of Valcamonica in Northern Italy, dating from the Iron Age. This is based on a cross of cup marks, interwoven with a groove design.... not always in a swastika shape. So another possibility is that the design came to Britain with Roman troops recruited from that area, and stationed at Olicana, the Roman Fort established where Ilkley now stands.
There are many theories about what the Swastika represents. One is that it is a sun symbol, another that it represents the turning of the heavens around the pole star. The Ilkley Moor version has a hook-shaped groove protruding from it's eastern arm, enclosing a groove. This points in the direction of the summer solstice sunrise and could symbolise the progression of the sun. Whatever it means.... it's definitely not a boomerang!
If you'd like to read further on the Ilkley Moor Swastika Stone, or the Camunian Rose motif, there are a few excellent on-line essays here...
http://rupestre.net/tracce/FARINA.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2996/swastika.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2996/camros2.html
http://norlonto.net/index.cfm/action/articles.view/itemID/66
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Boomerangs a 'British invention' (Score: 1)
by Andy B on Thursday, 20 May 2004
(User Info | Send a Message) | Children's author Terry Deary claims the famous "Swastika Stone" on Ilkley Moor in West Yorkshire proves the boomerang was invented in the UK.
The Horrible Histories writer argues the carving, said to be 3-4,000 years old, can only be a throwing device.
But Gavin Edwards, West Yorkshire's County Archaeologist, doubts the Deary interpretation and believes the rock art has a simpler explanation.
"The swastika was a common abstract symbol in prehistoric Europe," he said.
Angry Australians
The famous four-armed carving is a popular tourist attraction.
"It is one of thousands of abstract carvings on rocks in the area," Mr Edwards told BBC News Online.
Terry Deary came up with his assessment while out jogging on the moor.
"It's the earliest representation of a boomerang. There is nothing else it could be," he said.
There is evidence that many Stone Age civilisations used throwing sticks, but Aboriginal Australians have commonly been associated with their invention, about 10,000 years ago.
It is Deary's claim, however, that the Ilkley Moor carving would be the first representation of a return boomerang. Over time, the two-armed boomerang was developed.
Mr Edwards, whose job it is to protect the Ilkley Moor carvings, does not however think it is a boomerang.
"There are almost identical swastika symbols found carved on rocks in Italy, Sweden and Portugal," he says.
The swastika symbol was often used by ancient peoples. It is thought to represent the Sun. It bears only a little resemblance to the emblem used by the Nazi's in the last century.
Victorian prank
Gavin Edwards even has a sneaking suspicion that the Ilkley Moor swastika may not be entirely authentic.
"It is very difficult to date rock carvings," he said. "After all, they are just damage to the surface of a rock.
"I have no proof of this but I suspect that it is possible the Victorians - who wanted to promote the region as a place worth visiting - may have embellished some rock carvings on the moors to add to the region's appeal."
However, most of the rock carvings are undoubtedly authentic - if mysterious in origin.
"We do not know why they are there. Clearly there was a thought process behind their shapes and the places where they were carved, but we do not know what it is," Mr Edwards said.
"Remember, 4,000 years ago the moors would have been heavily wooded, meaning that we do not see them today as they were originally."
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Re: Boomerangs a 'British invention' (Score: 1)
by Andy B (andy@megalithic.co.uk) on Thursday, 20 May 2004
(User Info | Send a Message) | Look - a link from BBC news to this page (that's how I found this story!)
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