{"id":18535,"date":"2012-10-21T10:09:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T09:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=18535"},"modified":"2021-12-13T08:40:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T08:40:28","slug":"troy-towns-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/troy-towns-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Troy Towns <\/strong>is the name given to turf mazes in Britain and their counterparts, the many stone lined labyrinths to be found in Scandinavia, the Baltic countries and as far east as Russia, where <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/arkaim-n\/\">Arkaim<\/a> is <span style=\"color: #000000;\">considered by some to be a form of troy town<sup>(d)<\/sup>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;<\/span><\/strong>A German website (in English) offers a detailed review of Troy Towns in Sweden<sup>(f)<\/sup>.<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&lt;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span>W.H. Matthews (1882- ) listed a total of thirty-seven extant English turf labyrinths in his 1922 book <sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/m\/\"><sup>1686<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>, noting that there were once many more, including some in Scotland and Wales. Today, only eight historic turf labyrinths survive in England, only two of which still bear the name of Troy: The City of Troy in Dalby, North Yorkshire, and Troy at Troy Farm, Somerton, Oxfordshire. Saffron Walden is home to the largest, and some maintain oldest, surviving English turf labyrinth.<sup>(e)<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>All these are supposedly inspired by the \u2018original\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/labyrinth\/\">labyrinth<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/crete\/\">Crete<\/a>. To suggest<sup>(c)<\/sup> that\u00a0labyrinths or Troy Towns\u00a0are in any way intended to memorialise Plato\u2019s description of the layout of Atlantis is just unbridled conjecture.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mymaze.de\/trojaburg_en.htm\">https:\/\/www.mymaze.de\/trojaburg_en.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Troy_Town\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Troy_Town<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210414144504\/http:\/\/mmmgroup2.altervista.org\/e-labiri.html\">The mystery of the labyrinth (archive.org)<\/a>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><sup>(d)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newdawnmagazine.com\/articles\/arkaim-russias-ancient-city-the-arctic-origin-of-civilisation\">https:\/\/www.newdawnmagazine.com\/articles\/arkaim-russias-ancient-city-the-arctic-origin-of-civilisation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(e) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailygrail.com\/2017\/07\/the-labyrinths-of-troy\/\">https:\/\/www.dailygrail.com\/2017\/07\/the-labyrinths-of-troy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(f)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mymaze.de\/trojaburg_en.htm\">The Troy Towns (mymaze.de)<\/a>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troy Towns is the name given to turf mazes in Britain and their counterparts, the many stone lined labyrinths to be found in Scandinavia, the Baltic countries and as far east as Russia, where Arkaim is considered by some to be a form of troy town(d).\u00a0 &gt;A German website (in English) offers a detailed review [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2044,63,714,1546,1375,715,6180],"class_list":["post-18535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arkaim","tag-crete","tag-labyrinth","tag-mazes","tag-scandinavia","tag-troy-towns","tag-w-h-matthews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52404,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18535\/revisions\/52404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}