tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post4216888243096617892..comments2024-03-28T14:00:12.372+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: Literature Wales: the truth is whatever you want it to beBRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-14591209216938187952017-04-27T22:22:33.673+01:002017-04-27T22:22:33.673+01:00Dr Bronwen Price no doubt sees Mike Parker Pearson...Dr Bronwen Price no doubt sees Mike Parker Pearson's heavy footprints embedded deep in the surface of Rhosyfelin. Some of us take a much more Friends of the Earth, ecological view of the British landscape, and prefer that people tread lightly, both literally and also when offering their theories of landscape construction and/ or modification by Man(Woman).TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-68149825426642135222017-04-27T22:14:16.984+01:002017-04-27T22:14:16.984+01:00Someone (on a completely unrelated topic) talked a...Someone (on a completely unrelated topic) talked about "Best Fit" theories the other night on Radio Three. Brian - and the rest of us dissenters from the human transport tale - ought to concentrate upon best fit, and present the two opposing theories with all their claims, and leave it to Modern Man and Woman to choose which is the best fit, in the light of modern science, rather than speculation, someone called Geoffrey from East Wales, and whimsy.TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-73332353102579508482017-04-24T14:42:50.084+01:002017-04-24T14:42:50.084+01:00From our: For What It's Worth department ...
...From our: For What It's Worth department ...<br /><br />The 'U-Shaped stones' she talks about is most likely the overall shape of the Trilithon set - not individual arches.<br /><br />NeilND Wisemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11925248433335448747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-85590232837061486972017-04-24T08:44:24.467+01:002017-04-24T08:44:24.467+01:00Agree with that, Chris. I suspect that she person...Agree with that, Chris. I suspect that she personally took the decision to put that site in, and then wrote the text for it, demonstrating to the world how little she knows about Rhosyfelin. Then she was personally affronted that somebody like me should come along and question both her judgment and her understanding of the site and the literature -- since she holds a PhD in archaeology! It would have cost her nothing at all -- and indeed would have demonstrated a willingness to take advice -- had she simply changed the text to something more nuanced. She could even have thanked me for my help. Had she been really smart, she could have flagged up the truth / myth issue in quite an entertaining way for future tourists to the area.......BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-67683475726057728412017-04-24T08:23:49.317+01:002017-04-24T08:23:49.317+01:00Dr Price does the subject and indeed her country a...Dr Price does the subject and indeed her country a disservice. In such a publication one expects to finds fictional stories; they are entertaining. One also expects to discover truths. The responsibility of the author is surely to distinguish clearly when she is entertaining with a story and when she is educating based on facts.<br />Wales has always had a huge respect for teachers and educated people. Perhaps Dr Price is too dazzled by big London reputations - or Sheffield even. Hopefully she can have a change of heart and rewrite her piece. chris johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16210890033354730381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-67374453779789539622017-04-22T16:33:11.409+01:002017-04-22T16:33:11.409+01:00That should be HHT, of course.....That should be HHT, of course.....BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-77202015043460334022017-04-22T11:09:28.355+01:002017-04-22T11:09:28.355+01:00The problem here is the dressing up of assumptions...The problem here is the dressing up of assumptions and "leaps of imagination" as facts. When I talk about the glacial transport theory, I hope I always make it clear that it is nothing more than a theory -- albeit a very well supported one when we come to look at evidence on the ground. "Antiquity"and its reputation? You have to be joking -- I have said it before, and will say it again -- that paper by MPP et al is one of the worst papers I have ever seen in a supposedly reputable journal. It should never have found its way into print. <br /><br />How tactful was I with Lit Wales? Probably not very! I have tried tact and gentle diplomacy, and as you know I am a very polite sort of fellow, but as you also know I have asked over and again for a more nuanced approach to Rhosyfelin, and for a recognition that there is a dispute over quarrying and transport mechanisms -- but the commercial imperative trumps everything else. Lit Wales, Pembs CC, National Park and all sorts of other outfits have clutched the MPP myth to their bosoms, regardless of what the evidence shows, because it allows them to say "We have here a cultural heritage that is second to none!!" Nothing much has changed since HTT in 1923.....BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-88971498645025963602017-04-22T10:21:55.269+01:002017-04-22T10:21:55.269+01:00I agree it is rather naively written and am surpri...I agree it is rather naively written and am surprised that 'inverted U shaped' would be used by a professional archie ("in my day etc etc ")for the well-understood term trilithon but she is presumably youngish.<br />But her myth is as good as your myth and just because you believe something true does not make it so. <br />It is hard, sometimes extremely hard, to have something published in Antiquity as it is correctly and rightly jealous of its reputation; hence it is very acceptable to take that as an authority.<br />On a scale of 1 to 1.0001 how tactful were you? <br />M<br /><br />I do, however, wonder alongside you at the change from a unknown and neglected outcrop in a field to a promoted picnic site- all within the lifetime of a (roasted) guinea pig. A transformation that can be traced back to the few seconds when the Jovian fabric was matched and recognised or to when a couple of extra Ph.D samples were sectioned. Icing on the cake I guess.Myris of Alexandrianoreply@blogger.com