fitzcoraldo
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Re: What Is It??
Jul 03, 2004, 16:19
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was that the one where you took along a guest from holland? if it was, then I was there.
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Hob
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Re: What Is It??
Jul 03, 2004, 22:31
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You mean the (part of the) Nebra Disk bloke?
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fitzcoraldo
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Re: What Is It??
Jul 03, 2004, 23:25
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I guess I was there the year before.
Don't the coppers look young nowadays?
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Hob
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Re: What Is It??
Jul 04, 2004, 00:57
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If it was the one with half a Nebra disk, it wasn't the bronze age thingy.
I ain't bin to no bronze age thingy.
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BrigantesNation
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Re: What Is It??
Jul 04, 2004, 16:22
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Sorry, Fitz, Hob... what can I say, brain, pea, size durrr...
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fitzcoraldo
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More Ferriter's Cove
Jul 06, 2004, 21:03
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Just had one of those weird moments, when something you were discussing a couple of days ago suddenly appears unexpectedly. This is from my current read, Barry Cunliffes excellent 'Facing the Sea'
"Many of the foraging communities of Ireland will have continued their tradition of food-gathering activities long after food-production techniques of the neolithic period had been introduced, at Ferriters Cove on the Dingle Peninsular, a small community managed to eke out a living clinging on the cliff edge. They hunted pig, caught fish by long line or net, and collected molluscs, mainly limpets, but they were in contact, however distant, with farmers who reared cattle and made polished stone axes. Perhaps they were living in some form of symbiotic relationshio with these settled agriculturalists, but it is equally possible that the foraging community was now beginning to adopt aspects of the neolithic food-producing package which was being established at this time along the Atlantic seaways".
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FourWinds
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Re: More Ferriter's Cove
Jul 06, 2004, 21:21
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Which ties in nicely with part of the book I'm reading right now: Boats and Boatmen by TC Lethbridge.
He mentions the differences between people living in a fishing village and those living in a farming village just a few miles away. The point he makes is that the two are inter-dependent in a way, yet two totally different types of people that dont understand the other's way of life; their values, priorities, convictions or superstitions are all foreign.
Perhaps the differences go back further than even he thought ...
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Of course, a bunch of pissed-up Neolithic farmers could have ventured down to the cove one night for a rumble and got their heads stoved in. The people of the cove, who had no need for the axes the intruders were armed with, simply threw them in the midden pit :-)
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StoneLifter
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Re: axes
Jul 06, 2004, 21:48
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My bit of wood (which has lain under the elements for three weeks) looks as though it has been chopped downwards, once from the left and once from the right and then snapped off. I suspect a stone tool and wonder whether there were rudimentary gloves. The tree cover then is anomalous as it's on top of a peat deposit - so must just have been a warm spell - I suspect rough axes were also chipped out of whatever stone was to hand.
I've found a robbed long barrow today on a previously unwalked site. The stone's been taken for walls mainly. At the middle it's quite close to original ground level if anyone fancies pronging it for a central cist. It overlooks a ritual landscape (as they say). The Alston policeman still wears an old-fashioned hat (incidentally). I wish he drove a Ford Anglia, with the Yardbirds playing in the background, but it's not. I've found the Balfour-Beatty Tracked Vehicle, on his trailer, hidden away beside the Playing Fields.
Are there other 'lowes' with surrounding henges ?
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Forrester
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Re: What Is It??
Mar 31, 2005, 14:36
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The farmer used to come and speak to us when we gathered for the solstice some years ago. He said that on the summits of all the surrounding hills, a King was buried, and that the circle was at the centre, so to speak, of all these. It's pretty high country up there, and i guess the people have always seen themselves as differentiated from those below? Although there'e no exact lay line, as such, a line drawn north from Stonehenge/Avebury, to the Rollright Stones, and then up to Arbor Low, doesn't deviate all that much from a straight line, and i conjecture that these sites were multi purpose, incorporating elements of religion, science, time/space orientation, agriculture, entertainment, and trade.
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