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41: 802: 853: 845:. During the 1960s, excavations identified cracks in the rock, suggesting the ground had moved in the past. This, combined with wind erosion, started to expose the footings of the tower, which were repaired with concrete. Erosion caused by the feet of the increasing number of visitors was also a problem and paths were laid to enable them to reach the summit without damaging the terraces. After 2000, enhancements to the access and repairs to the tower, including rebuilding of the parapet, were carried out. These included the replacement of some of the masonry damaged by earlier repairs with new stone from the 886: 510: 610: 606:), a design found all over the Neolithic world, can be easily transposed onto the Tor so that by walking around the terraces a person eventually reaches the top in the same pattern. Evaluating this hypothesis is not easy. A labyrinth would very likely place the terraces in the Neolithic era, but given the amount of occupation since then, there may have been substantial modifications by farmers or monks, and conclusive excavations have not been carried out. In a more recent book, Hutton writes that "the labyrinth does not seem to be an ancient sacred structure". 747: 591: 198: 538: 1030: 623: 393: 205: 1004:, an artist with interest in the occult, who thought the zodiac was constructed approximately 5,000 years ago. But the vast majority of the land said by Maltwood to be covered by the zodiac was under several feet of water at the proposed time of its construction, and many of the features such as field boundaries and roads are recent. 533:
to make ploughing for crops easier. Author Nicholas Mann questions this theory. If agriculture had been the reason for the creation of the terraces, it would be expected that the effort would be concentrated on the south side, where the sunny conditions would provide a good yield, but the terraces
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of their slopes. The normal form of ramparts is a bank and ditch, but there is no evidence of this arrangement on the Tor. South Cadbury, one of the most extensively fortified places in early Britain, had three concentric rings of banks and ditches supporting an 44-acre (18 ha) enclosure. By
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are equally deep on the northern side, which would provide little benefit. Additionally, none of the other slopes of the island have been terraced, even though the more sheltered locations would provide a greater return on the labour involved.
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During the late Saxon and early medieval period, there were at least four buildings on the summit. The base of a stone cross demonstrates Christian use of the site during this period, and it may have been a hermitage. The broken head of a
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about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the Tor. It consists of an embankment with a ditch on the east side. The purpose and provenance of the dyke are unclear. It is possible that it was part of a longer defensive barrier associated with
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settlement in about 300–200 BC on what was an easily defended island in the fens. There is no evidence of permanent occupation of the Tor, but finds, including Roman pottery, do suggest that it was visited on a regular basis.
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Archaeological excavations during the 20th century sought to clarify the background of the monument and church, but some aspects of their history remain unexplained. Artefacts from human visitation have been found, dating from the
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A second church, also dedicated to St Michael, was built of local sandstone in the 14th century by the Abbot Adam of Sodbury, incorporating the foundations of the previous building. It included
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also mentions the alternative possibility that the terraces are the remains of a medieval "spiral walkway" created for pilgrims to reach the church on the summit, similar to that at
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and the Tor being seen as either a breast or the whole figure of the Goddess. This has been celebrated with an effigy of the Goddess leading an annual procession up the Tor.
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contrast, the Tor has seven rings and very little space on top for the safekeeping of a community. It has been suggested, that a defensive function may have been linked with
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dated to the 10th or 11th century was found partway down the hill and may have been the head of the cross that stood on the summit. The head of the cross is now in the
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Another suggestion is that the terraces are the remains of a three-dimensional labyrinth, first proposed by Geoffrey Russell in 1968. He states that the classical
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The Tor has been a place of Christian pilgrimage at least since the 11th-century and continues to be so, both because of the long-standing dedication to
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Other explanations have been suggested for the terraces, including the construction of defensive ramparts. Iron Age hill forts including the nearby
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until the 20th century. The last owner of the Tor was Robert Neville-Grenville who wished to give the Tor to the National Trust along with the
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above which the Tor is clearly visible for miles around. It has been described as an island, but actually sits at the western end of a
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A proposed flag for Somerset (designed by Dil Roworth) featuring Glastonbury Tor and St Michael's Tower, which came third in the 2013
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bought the Tor and funded the repair of the tower in 1804, including the rebuilding of the north-east corner. It was then sold to the
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and trackways, in which the Tor forms part of the figure representing Aquarius. The theory was first put forward in 1927 by
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flint tools recovered from the top of the Tor show that the site has been visited, perhaps with a lasting occupation, since
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is an English word referring to "a bare rock mass surmounted and surrounded by blocks and boulders", deriving from the
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occurs because rays of light are strongly bent when they pass through air layers of different temperatures in a steep
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that have reinforced it to produce the caprock. Iron-rich but oxygen-poor water in the aquifer carries dissolved
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A model vaguely based on Glastonbury Tor (albeit with a tree instead of the tower) was incorporated into the
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is unclear, but when the settlement was first recorded in the late 7th and early 8th centuries it was called
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exposed. The slopes of the hill are terraced, but the method by which they were formed remains unexplained.
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and perpendicular bell openings. There is a sculptured tablet with an image of an eagle below the parapet.
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occupation during the 5th to 7th centuries around the later medieval church of St. Michael. Finds included
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in London. As the athletes entered the stadium, their flags were displayed on the terraces of the model.
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occupation on Glastonbury Tor. The 1970 excavation suggests the 12th century or later. The historian
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dating from the 10th or 11th century has been recovered. The original wooden church was destroyed by
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strata. The uppermost of these, forming the Tor itself, are a succession of rocks assigned to the
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in 1539 when, except for the tower, it was demolished. The Tor was the place of execution where
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at the base of the Tor, flow out as an artesian well impregnating the sandstone around it with
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that it is part of a great Celtic sanctuary, probably 3rd century BC, while others, including
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The plaque fitted to the wall inside the ruin of St Michael's Church atop Glastonbury Tor
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drops out as insoluble "rusty" oxides that bind to the surrounding stone, hardening it.
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is depicted milking a cow as a stone carving above one of the entrances to the tower.
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St Michael's Church, monastic remains, and other settlement remains on Glastonbury Tor
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The Tor and other sites in Glastonbury have also been significant in the modern-day
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of gargantuan proportions said to have been carved into the land along ancient
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took control of the Tor in 1937, but repairs were delayed until after the
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were identified at the site in 1892, which confirmed that there was an
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The sides of the Tor have seven deep, roughly symmetrical terraces, or
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to Roman eras. Several buildings were constructed on the summit during
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and is believed by some, including the 12th and 13th century writer
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The low-lying damp ground can produce a visual effect known as a
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A stone carving that is said to depict St. Brigid milking a cow.
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The Tor is in the middle of the Summerland Meadows, part of the
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in origin and could refer to either a fortified place such as a
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and decorated floor tiles. There was also a portable altar of
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that Glastonbury Tor is one of the possible locations of the
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who raised money by Public Subscription for its upkeep.
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A persistent myth of more recent origin is that of the
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Front of the tower showing mythological iconography
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The last few yards of the concrete path up the Tor.
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sandstone
Iron Age
Saxon
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wheel cross
an earthquake in 1275
Old English
Celtic
kinship group
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