tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post2328667438867384496..comments2024-03-28T22:13:17.139+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: MPP to talk at Moylegrove 18 SeptBRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-55747002059976403652013-09-13T11:09:10.131+01:002013-09-13T11:09:10.131+01:00Where did Alan's Email address go to? Here it...Where did Alan's Email address go to? Here it is again...<br /><br />Alan.Wills@microsoft.comBRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-87307716752485726562013-09-13T11:07:19.004+01:002013-09-13T11:07:19.004+01:00Another update -- the event is not free -- they ar...Another update -- the event is not free -- they are charging £3 per head. And it looks as if there are now no seats left......BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-80746027584335066892013-09-13T11:05:10.513+01:002013-09-13T11:05:10.513+01:00Chris and anybody else -- the talk has not been ad...Chris and anybody else -- the talk has not been advertised very effectively. The event is free, but because the hall is very small there is a limitation on space. They are taking "bookings" for seats -- contact Alan Wills as follows: <br /><br />Alan Wills <br /><br />and ask him to reserve a seat. 110 are booked in so far -- I imagine many of those will be volunteer diggers!!BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-82966770297886014682013-09-13T09:19:32.191+01:002013-09-13T09:19:32.191+01:00Unfortunately the event is now advertised as "...Unfortunately the event is now advertised as "fully booked". I had not understood that I needed to book and I hope somebody is going who can make a report.<br /><br />ChrisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-36147988964554634492013-09-09T22:07:46.968+01:002013-09-09T22:07:46.968+01:00Thanks Tony -- useful info. I don't propose to...Thanks Tony -- useful info. I don't propose to shell out that vast sum of money, so will have to go on what others report. But in the author's defence I suppose that the term "quarrying" could also refer to the process of picking up erratics from one spot and putting them up nearby. There -- isn't that generous of me?BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-31265039447988643582013-09-09T20:51:05.103+01:002013-09-09T20:51:05.103+01:00Here's an interesting book title.
"Build...Here's an interesting book title.<br /><br />"Building the Great Stone Circles of the North", edited by Colin Richards. Windgather Books, Nov 2013.<br /><br />Available via Oxbow Books, Oxford at the knock-down price of £32.<br /><br />The blurb I have says....."the volume looks in detail at the context of the circles and cairns from Orkney and the Outer Hebrides - from QUARRYING THE RAW MATERIAL to their symbolic role within the landscape........"<br /><br />Colin, of course, is MPP's main man when it comes to promoting the notion of quarries in Preseli as well as N Scotland, the two having worked in tandem up there as well for many years.<br /><br />Now we're back to Quarries and Wild Geese Hunts.....<br /><br />Are you listening, Our Man in Scotland, George Cur? TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-50154796383378348312013-09-09T20:20:35.111+01:002013-09-09T20:20:35.111+01:00I see the Society of Antiquaries has recently cele...I see the Society of Antiquaries has recently celebrated its tercentenary, then, Myris of Alexandia FSA. Any gems to impart from that august body? How are they finding life in the 21st Century with all its challenges e.g. Glaciology?<br /><br />I have just noticed to my astonishment that the Moylegrove Advance Notice includes the question "Were they [the bluestones] moved from the Preseli hills by human agency or by a glacier?" <br /><br />I suppose that's something, but I shan't be holding my breath...........TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-38473721835376479572013-09-08T21:12:40.823+01:002013-09-08T21:12:40.823+01:00Too much cholesterol from Devonshire cream teas in...Too much cholesterol from Devonshire cream teas in the arteries may also affect the flow of blood to the brain, and may be over-stimulating the more imaginative zones as well as those responsible for deep sleep and dreams. I sense a nighmtare or too in store at the end of the Wild Goose Chase [see discussion below Monet illustation Post on this Blog, autumn 2012]TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-72007875748623562962013-09-08T19:31:48.250+01:002013-09-08T19:31:48.250+01:00here's the latest EH Spin
http://www.theguardi...here's the latest EH Spin<br />http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/08/stonehenge-ice-age-solstice-axis<br /><br />Fails to say it's only on a small part of the avenue and dismisses everything but MPP's pet theories.<br />PeteGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-90717749222003878092013-09-08T13:30:09.086+01:002013-09-08T13:30:09.086+01:00Myself, I blame the Fellows of the Society of Anti...Myself, I blame the Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London. <br />Being opposite F and Ms or is it Harrods? distorts the view. Cream teas to die for!!<br />MMyrisof Alexandra FSAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-83373000067594991802013-09-08T09:06:40.516+01:002013-09-08T09:06:40.516+01:00I see Mike is leading a "collaborative" ...I see Mike is leading a "collaborative" project "involving universities". But how inter-disciplinary across subjects is the project these days?<br /><br />Are they still the equivalent of early 19th Century Antiquarians with labourers from their own estates, all ignoring the new science of Geology in preference to an obsequious, overly - literal, Bible - based, 4004 B.C. origin of the Earth approach? <br /><br />A plea for Geomorphology and Glaciology to be taken properly seriously and on an equal footing to those disciplines they are already using. Otherwise, why DO we have Universities in the Twenty-First Century?TonyHnoreply@blogger.com