andrew f
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Re: Spellings
Jan 09, 2004, 10:53
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Ha! This, then, shall be what I know it as from now on.
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pebblesfromheaven
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Re: Spellings
Jan 09, 2004, 10:59
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Aye the animal carvings are here:
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/14586
I wasn't convinced they were deer really! Why is it called goatsgrag anyway??
We could go on for hours!
.o0O0o.
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moey
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Routing
Jan 09, 2004, 11:21
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Routing meaning To bellow. Used of cattle, comes from Middle English routen, to roar, from Old Norse rauta.
So that could well be where it comes from.
I reckon, in my simplified way, it might just mean a noisy waterfall then. A Roaring Waterfall.
Presumably there was more of it in the past if that's the case, because it's normally pretty peaceful now.
moey
ps Dictionary.com is a handy place
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fitzcoraldo
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Re: Routing
Jan 09, 2004, 11:36
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Lies, lies & damn lies.........it's Horny Stags
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BrigantesNation
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Re: Routing
Jan 09, 2004, 11:39
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I thought it might be a reference to that lady joiner who won yesterdays darts game.
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moey
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Storny Hags
Jan 09, 2004, 11:56
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OK then ;O)
moey
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Kozmik_Ken
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Re: Spellings
Jan 09, 2004, 13:29
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Do you have any idea of a date for the stag carvings Pebs?
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pebblesfromheaven
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Re: Spellings
Jan 09, 2004, 14:05
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Yes I believe it was between 3 and 8 pm on the evening of Monday 3rd August, 2134 BCE.
How the bleeding 'ell do I know?!?!
;-PPPPPPPPP
[Sorry, it's a friday and the sun is shining for the first time in what feels like weeks!!]
.o0O0o.
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Kozmik_Ken
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Re: Spellings
Jan 09, 2004, 14:07
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Just wanted to know if they'd been dated as Bronze Age or Iron Age 'cos I was interested.
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Hob
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Re: Spellings
Jan 09, 2004, 14:31
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I second that interest.
Is there a general assumption that zoomorphic carvings were created later than abstract motifs. 'cos that's not the case with cave painting. But then Pebs is right that saying those carvings are deer is pushing the definition of deer to a fairly abstract degree. They may be carvings of goats and the hill should really be called deerscrag.
What do we want?
Reliable methods of dating rock art
When do we want it?
Ooh, erm maybe late neolithic, not sure really...
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