Before the Puritans
Who raised the stone circles above Dunwich, and what did they believe the stones were for? Lore entries welcome.
The stone circles on the hills above Dunwich were old when the first Puritan surveyors drew them on a map, and no one has ever settled who raised them. Write the lore entry: what the stones are, what the evidence says about the people who set them there, and what those people seem to have believed the circles were for. Competing readings of the same evidence are welcome, and are more in keeping with the world than a single answer.
- Length
- 250–800 words
- Wanted
- lore entry
- Tone
- An antiquarian's entry: careful, sourced, and reluctant to conclude.
What would contradict the canon
Reviewers check an entry against these. They are the difference between a decline and a seal.
- No dates earlier than the archaeology can support. Vagueness beats a wrong century.
- The builders are human.
- The entry may describe rites; it does not give working instructions for one.
Already sealed, and binding
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One way it might open
An example, not a requirement. Take it, change it, or ignore it.
Of the eleven circles above the village, only four stand at their full height, and the fourth is the one the surveyors avoided.
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