Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset: shaped stone, believed to be a pagan omphalos discovered at the Abbey in the 1910s by architect Frederick Bligh Bond.
A smoothed and shaped stone, believed to be a pagan omphalos or egg-stone, discovered at Glastonbury Abbey in the 1910s by architect Frederick Bligh Bond. Photographed beside the Abbot's Kitchen in May 1997 showing a cavity, possibly cut to hold the shaft of a Christian cross. There is a navel-like depression on the smoothed side of the stone pushed up against the wall. Similarly shaped stones at places such as Delphi are believed to represent the Great Goddess, the navel of the earth, the centre of the world.
Size: 4481px × 6000px
Location: Glastonbury Abbey, Magdalene Street, Glastonbury, Somerset, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: -, abbey, age, ancient, avalon, base, bligh, bond, britain, british, celtic, centre, ceremonial, christian, christianised, christianized, country, cross, cross-base, earth, egg-stone, england, enigmatic, folklore, frederick, glastonbury, goddess, great, holy, isle, isles, kingdom, legends, myths, navel, object, omphalos, pagan, place, pre-christian, sacred, sanctuary, shaped, site, smoothed, somerset, south-west, stone, summer, symbol, symbolic, uk, united, world
