![]() The site was surveyed in 1957 by students from a Nottingham University summer school and The Workers’ Educational Association of Buxton. The E side is protected by 2 banks with a ditch beyond the outer. The N and S sides are protected by natural slopes. In a Guide to Prehistoric England (1960), Nicholas Thomas noted that: View from Castle Naze, looking north-west along the alignment to Winter Hill Summit on the horizon(indicated by red arrow) (SK 0527 7848) - 443 m elevationĪt the other end of our alignment is Castle Naze, an Iron Age hill fort located on a westerly-pointing tip of Combs Moss, above the small town of Combs in Derbyshire. ![]() The obvious and visible link with fertility and life itself would cause these natural features to become… tangible manifestations of the invisible powers they worshiped."Ĭastle Naze Hill Fort Summit - Natural and Second Artificial Alignment Marker (map ref #7) It is not difficult to appreciate the psychology underlying the veneration of the source of a great river or of a powerful spring. For example, a certain well or spring… over which a… cult legend evolved, dealing with the patron deity of the well, or the source of a river, worship extending beyond the spring to embrace the flowing water itself. That springs served as shrines in the northern region is evidenced. Rivers are important in themselves, being associated… with fertility and with deities such as the divine mothers and the sacred bulls. "Springs, wells and rivers are of first and enduring importance as a focal point of Celtic cult practice and ritual. The River Ribble or Bellisama - meaning "the brightest one" Reflection of the light off the water, being the mouth of The Pike Tower silhouetted in the foreground - note, the 2014 sunset looking to the Irish Sea in the distance,
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