Jane
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Landscape Mysteries - 'Figures in the chalk'
Oct 01, 2003, 18:40
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Plan your telly viewing, fellow TMAers!
Tomorrow night (Thursday) 7.30pm, BBC2, Professor Aubrey Manning (who is a dude) will be <B>thrilling</B> us with his explorations of British chalk figures. Uffy poppo, the Long Man and Cerne Abbas will all star!
Set your videos, to code 6192 and get watching. You'll be cross if you forget...
J
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Earthstepper
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Re: Landscape Mysteries - 'Figures in the chalk'
Oct 01, 2003, 20:19
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Yes it should be good. Looks like it will confirm the Uffington White Horse as Bronze Age, but I wonder what it will have to say about the age of Wilmington and Cerne Abbas. Is the Head Heritage logo a piece of 18th century graffiti? My money says it is.
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AtomicMutton
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'Figures in the chalk'
Oct 02, 2003, 07:29
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17th.
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Jane
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Re: 'Figures in the chalk'
Oct 02, 2003, 08:59
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Whatever.
Ancient? Modern? Ancient? Modern? I remain to be convinced either way and hope to learn more.
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BrigantesNation
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Re: Landscape Mysteries - 'Figures in the chalk'
Oct 02, 2003, 09:26
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Yes, I started a section on Brigantesnation for hill figures and really drew a blank except Uffington.
However, what I would like to say is, the vale of the white horse, and white horse cliff up here at Sutton Bank near Thirsk were called that long before the hill figure was carved. Yet there were poems about the white horse and notable antiquaries were commenting on how the cliff naturally looked like a white horse. Could it be the site of earlier works? If so, does it being covered up by the modern horse mean we will never look?
I found a reference in a "Bogg" book about there being seven stones originally at the Devils Arrows.
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Moth
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Re: Landscape Mysteries - 'Figures in the chalk'
Oct 02, 2003, 10:24
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"Bogg"?
Qu'est que c'est?
Ignorant Moth
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BrigantesNation
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Re: Landscape Mysteries - 'Figures in the chalk'
Oct 02, 2003, 10:43
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Scratched on a toilet wall!
Noooo Edmond Bogg, wrote masses of books about Yorkshire, he surveyed almost everywhere and was very well read, and therefore makes some interesting reading. Being an antiquarian, some of his interpretation is a tad suspect, but in terms of recording ancient stuff he's definately one to read.
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Moth
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Re: Landscape Mysteries - 'Figures in the chalk'
Oct 02, 2003, 10:51
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Cool - thanx BN. Out of print?
love
M
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AtomicMutton
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Bogg = Bo ?
Oct 02, 2003, 11:03
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I slept past the Devil's Arrows both ways yesterday - in a white van.
What is the Bogg book ?
(White van was National Express coach)
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BrigantesNation
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Re: Landscape Mysteries - 'Figures in the chalk'
Oct 02, 2003, 11:07
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Yes, but widely available in libraries (in Yorkshire) and a quite expensive buy in 2nd hand shops
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