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I don't think I mentioned this earlier. If you look just above
the face on the *right* root of f33r (yeah, same page as the pinmo/pinilo
reference earlier) you can clearly see "Bere". I have been trying to
figure what that might refer to. Very strange coincidence, if I may say
so.
****************************** Larry Roux Syracuse University lroux@xxxxxxx ******************************* >>> glenclaston@xxxxxxxxx 06/19/03 07:52PM >>> Nick, Not being to certain about medieval spellings, is that "nave" or "knave"? Remember, you were the one who raised the question of semantics? :-) Seriously, I haven't a clue. If it were me, I'd spend most of my time talking to people at the Abbey and seeing if they can guide you to a knowledgeable historian. Now that I'm getting acclimated to Texas however, my second inclination would to be to rent a bulldozer, use some dynamite, and let the archaeologists mark where the pieces land. I hear the British are really big on America's "get it done" attitude lately? :-) (If I can be of any less help, don't hesitate to ask.) GC > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx]On > Behalf Of Nick Pelling > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 6:41 PM > To: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: VMs: More about Abbot Bere / Beere... > > > Hi everyone, > > > From Leland's account, it would seem we know exactly where Beere was > > buried: under a marble floor in the South Aisle of the Chapel of the > > Sepulcher (which he had built), in its South End Nave. > > Here's the streetmap.co.uk map of the Glastonbury Abbey area:- > http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?x=350250&y=13875 > 0&zoom=2&isp=200&ism=500&arrow=y?36,101 > > And here's a nice tourist-friendly map of the Abbey grounds themselves:- > http://www.glastonburyabbey.com/groundsmap.php > > Putting the two together, it looks like the tourist map has been drawn > facing roughly South-East, so South would be off in the direction of the > top-right corner. > > I'd be very grateful if anyone who is better at interpreting church ruins > than I am (that's probably 90% of you) would be so kind as to make an > educated guess at where on the tourist map Leland would have been > describing? > > On that map, the Nave is marked as (9) - to my (uneducated) eyes, this > looks like it would have been on the South side of the building > there, next > to the cloisters (14). I have a dim archaeological memory of bishops and > abbots often being buried near the entrance to cloisters - is > that roughly > where I should go? > > All suggestions and comments welcome! > > Thanks, .....Nick Pelling..... > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying: > unsubscribe vms-list ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying: unsubscribe vms-list |