BrigantesNation
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Re: Fire reveals moor's stone legacy
Dec 23, 2004, 14:11
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I think many people here see it as behaving responsibly and dealing with the world as it is, not some ideal.
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smallblueplanet
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Re: Fire reveals moor's stone legacy
Dec 23, 2004, 14:13
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Obviously your philosophy on how the world is, is not my philosophy on how the world is.....
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BrigantesNation
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Re: Fire reveals moor's stone legacy
Dec 23, 2004, 14:18
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No I think it does matter, I can't comment on what state the object is "said" to be in.
If burying it can be shown to give the object a shorter life than some other means of conservation tell me about it - give me the facts - what will cause the erosion, how long will it last?
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BrigantesNation
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Re: Fire reveals moor's stone legacy
Dec 23, 2004, 14:25
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I'm pretty certain we can agree on that.
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smallblueplanet
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Re: Fire reveals moor's stone legacy
Dec 23, 2004, 14:26
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There are comments, further up this thread, from the people who laser-scanned it, about the potential deterioration of the stone.
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BrigantesNation
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Re: Your not worthy
Dec 23, 2004, 14:27
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I have no problem with EH denying access whilst it is unstable and if excell visitors is causing erosion of the site.
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BrigantesNation
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Re: Your not worthy
Dec 23, 2004, 14:27
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Excess - not excell
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Jane
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Hey Fitz! Have you...
Dec 23, 2004, 14:32
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.... a high resolution photograph of this beautiful stone? if so, could you email to me, please? I'd like to study the patterns and shapes more closely. I have an idea...
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Spaceship mark
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Re: to add to the complexity
Dec 23, 2004, 14:40
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I think I outlined above my views on this (general) subject. It's so specific to the site in question and so requiring of all the information. As I mentioned before re: statue menhirs in SE france I would have loved to have seen the ones I saw in Rodez museum in situ, as it is I feel blessed to have seen them at all.
As I think I said before, in this particular case, I think it all boils down to this point that the stone may be susceptible to some sort of accellerated erosion and also that it is potencially unique.
If it were to transpire that the stone is perfectly stable and would not suffer from reburial/being left where it is, then I beleive that's the course to take as, as the point has been made, it can always be revisited when the funding or whatever is available TO study it.
If however the stone is very fragile then that's where the problem lies. Is there any point in reburying it for the sake of leaving it in context if the art itself is going be gone in a few years.
I am in no position to choose one of these options. I don't know what type of rock it is, if the fire damge has made the stone more fragile, what the soil conditions are, how deep or faint the carvings are, how the stone would be reburied and any number of other variables.
I can't really join the debate as such as, with the information I personally have, I can't form an opinion.
But yous carry on ;-)
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smallblueplanet
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Re: to add to the complexity
Dec 23, 2004, 14:52
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I've seen a copy of the statue menhirs from the Aveyron area in a very interesting "Roman pottery production site" museum (can't remember its name!). I'd loved to have seen an original, anywhere.
This troll's opinion is that France has too much great rock art and we should ship some of it over here!! ;-) Where abouts did you go in the Aveyron? Did you fly to Rodez, its often a very cheap place to fly to.
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