tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post7885979226858184673..comments2024-03-28T00:46:01.084+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: More missing Stonehenge stonesBRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-17745040589917916462012-10-29T13:34:04.130+00:002012-10-29T13:34:04.130+00:00Dear Rim Groper
Who is to know.
MDear Rim Groper<br />Who is to know.<br />MMyris of Alexandrianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-56366288333804487622012-10-28T19:07:20.655+00:002012-10-28T19:07:20.655+00:00It is a sad fact that were it not for a pair of gr...It is a sad fact that were it not for a pair of grannies doing unmentionable things with a pair of grandfathers, (or simply with stray men, as the case may be), then the world as we know it, wouldn't have a Myris. <br />Perhaps that wouldn't be such a bad thing after all.The Rim Greapernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-60056461867588800412012-10-28T08:44:08.435+00:002012-10-28T08:44:08.435+00:00Yoy are on dangerous ground here, Myris. Beware t...Yoy are on dangerous ground here, Myris. Beware the wrath of Hell's Grannies..........BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-60904331432352147732012-10-28T08:35:00.614+00:002012-10-28T08:35:00.614+00:00Help Schmelp!
I tell it like it is.
Throughout hi...Help Schmelp!<br /><br />I tell it like it is.<br />Throughout history people:-<br /><br />General Philip Sheridan 'The only good grannies I ever saw were dead'<br /><br />'Will no man rid me of this meddlesome granny'. H. II Rex. <br /><br />'How weary' stale' flat and unprofitable seem to me all the grannies of this world' Danish Prince<br /><br />I could go on and no doubt shall. Let them declare a Fatwa but the truth must be told.<br /> <br />The path to Hell is paved with old ladies with poised crochet needles, poor eyesight and an inability to pay the correct postage. A pox on them.<br /><br />Was the woman that overpainted the Christ painting recently not a granny trying to help? <br /><br />Here in Egypt we know what to do with grannies we stuff them (a Wayne Rooney joke can be inserted here) and wrap them in bandages.<br /><br />MMyris of Alexandrianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-37626077263858405892012-10-27T22:22:19.535+01:002012-10-27T22:22:19.535+01:00You are very hard on grannies, Myris. They are on...You are very hard on grannies, Myris. They are only trying to help, as grannies (and grandads) tend to do........BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-33509638084969397862012-10-27T14:53:26.627+01:002012-10-27T14:53:26.627+01:00Myris,
No doubt! In Truth we are all One!
Kostas...Myris,<br /><br />No doubt! In Truth we are all One!<br /><br />KostasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-8797824321297201812012-10-27T10:05:30.080+01:002012-10-27T10:05:30.080+01:00Ah I am channelling!
Kostas Clarification
T...Ah I am channelling! <br /> Kostas Clarification<br />The rubbish stones -these are the bits of cement, Midlands dolerite road stone, New Age amethyst and rock crystal,plus the rubbish that inspired amateurs send through the post with insufficient postage and even less politesse. But amongst these second XI lithics (the term is really restricted to unstratified material mainly from the spoil of earlier excavations, anything from the plogh soil and anything sent through the post by senile grannies) are sub-sets of odd material that turn up too regularly to be initally dismissed.<br />By definition rhyolites will not be rubbish stones. <br />I hope the mists now are clearing-they are for me. We have a connection in the cosmic aether Kostas perhaps I am an ancestor of yours?<br />M<br /> mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-5381722476381320482012-10-27T05:34:03.392+01:002012-10-27T05:34:03.392+01:00Myris,
Are you including the foliated rhyolite fr...Myris,<br /><br />Are you including the foliated rhyolite fragments among the rubbish stones found at SH? If so, interesting these are found so <i>“low down in the lithic queue”.</i><br /> <br />KostasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-19505718275379979462012-10-26T21:50:49.901+01:002012-10-26T21:50:49.901+01:00Sting and Trudie, are you the anonymous buyers of ...Sting and Trudie, are you the anonymous buyers of this collection of Stonehenge vicinity material? Having recently donned my Sherlock Holmes cape and filled my pipe, I did some sleuthing and was struck to discover this coincidence, readers: Sting purchased Lake House, Wilsford-cum-Lake (adjacent to the Avon and fairly near the Avenue and so-called Bluestonehenge) around 1991. Regular readers will know that Lake House had outside it the Meteorite said to have been found in a barrow not far away. Previous owners of Lake House have had archaeological connections. Sting is rather keen on things prehistoric, and permitted an Iron Age/ Bronze Age dig within his own estate in the '90's. And what was that song "Fields Of Gold" really about??TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-61070355458919971102012-10-26T17:04:55.606+01:002012-10-26T17:04:55.606+01:00We will probably never know the truth -- the bloke...We will probably never know the truth -- the bloke who paid £285 has probably disappeared without trace, taking the loot with him. So all is speculation. Rubbish stones? Now that's a value judgment -- maybe they are actually the most important stones of all?BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-33213867899116962892012-10-26T16:06:52.072+01:002012-10-26T16:06:52.072+01:00I suspect that all the pottery is pottery and of m...I suspect that all the pottery is pottery and of mixed ages including some Roman: the 'black shales' may be black burnished ware. No idea what the limonitic material is, however. However,<br />I have been taking a look by cosmic chance at loose non-bluestone lithics from a number of sites in and around SH.Unstratified material.<br />One thing that is almost universally missing is shale/slate from Wales or elsewhere.<br />Metamorphics (ignoring the fact that all the Welsh material has been metamorphosed)are also almost totally absent.<br />I doubt your 10 different rocks.<br />One thing I have learned is that macroscopical id. of this material is for mugs and doubly so for a photographic id. I count myself amongst the fools that have done it and been quite, quite wrong. <br />The rubbish stones have something to tell us but what? and they are low down in the lithic queue. <br />Sent to me in a Pythian vision from Dr I and 'the great the sublime Apollo'. <br />How blessed am I to be favoured by both.<br />M.Myris of Alexandrianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-17649533082014776902012-10-26T15:22:53.768+01:002012-10-26T15:22:53.768+01:00Well well -- let's hope that it was an anonymo...Well well -- let's hope that it was an anonymous buyer bidding on behalf of EH.......BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-38803080472728740242012-10-26T14:56:02.169+01:002012-10-26T14:56:02.169+01:00I didn't buy it. It went for £285
PeteGI didn't buy it. It went for £285<br />PeteGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-16308956696274745442012-10-26T13:03:13.117+01:002012-10-26T13:03:13.117+01:00@Pete. Did you buy it?
Must be difficult to be su...@Pete. Did you buy it?<br /><br />Must be difficult to be sure of the provenance.<br /><br />I had a very nice arrowhead in my collection which my mother-in-law threw away while tidying up. Still feel guilty about not having donated it to a museum.chris johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16210890033354730381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-75004989678956505622012-10-26T10:48:14.203+01:002012-10-26T10:48:14.203+01:00I wrote to the ebay seller. The photos are his and...I wrote to the ebay seller. The photos are his and appeared on ebay. By the time I found the sale there was only a day left.<br />PeteGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-39473043616092206032012-10-26T07:36:55.419+01:002012-10-26T07:36:55.419+01:00Whoever bought it will treasure it so one just hop...Whoever bought it will treasure it so one just hopes that when their time comes the samples don't end up as junk in a skip. As Pete will confirm, I have chased material that has ended up in boot sales spread across Wiltshire in a similar situation. A lesson for us all - that is why I donate material as soon as I can to the Wiltshire Heritage Museum, rather than it gather dust in my place. Think on everyone!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-33755749002288343352012-10-25T23:09:15.666+01:002012-10-25T23:09:15.666+01:00I wonder where Pete got the written notes from. Al...I wonder where Pete got the written notes from. Also, who took the the photographs? Was that you, Pete? We know what an ardent photographer you are of all things Stonehenge, Avebury, and elsewhere in Prehistoric Wiltshire.Tony Hinchliffenoreply@blogger.com