tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post4336956068700549922..comments2024-03-28T22:13:17.139+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: The Stones of Stonehenge web siteBRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-90191914664945402842015-11-07T22:18:04.521+00:002015-11-07T22:18:04.521+00:00Ah have no idea who the best in show is?
I shall g...Ah have no idea who the best in show is?<br />I shall guess a footballer.<br />M<br />The only best in show I know is Caversham Kuku of Yam great great great grandfather of Wu Wei our first Peke.Myris of Alexandrianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-16812953041927741772015-11-07T16:31:31.350+00:002015-11-07T16:31:31.350+00:00All is forgiven when you can remember Johan's ...All is forgiven when you can remember Johan's skills, and some will for as long as soccer is played. He is so inarticulate about his wondrous achievements that he might well become a geologist in the next life.<br /><br />Johan will be remembered by more and for longer than CRyf, I predict.chris johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16210890033354730381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-81369707977715163002015-11-07T14:30:23.119+00:002015-11-07T14:30:23.119+00:00Bring it all on, Myris! As long as everyone is joy...Bring it all on, Myris! As long as everyone is joyfully yet laterally reminded of Holland's Johann Cruyff's extravagant footballing skills when CRyf's red herrings are revealed, the world of Legends will be a brighter and friendlier place.<br /><br />Incidentally, Johann Cruyff is not extravagantly handsome these days and not in the best of health. TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-28103817742164908222015-11-07T14:24:52.365+00:002015-11-07T14:24:52.365+00:00Channel 4 have just announced their next male News...Channel 4 have just announced their next male News Presenter for the Seven O'Clock News HAS to be extremely ugly so the audience, or if you will the viewers, will concentrate on the carnage in the headlines and NOT be distracted by the steaming sensuality of the Presenter.<br /><br />Personally, I find just LISTENING to Katie Derham on Radio Three concerts deeply affecting.TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-36960318897260210652015-11-07T06:50:54.518+00:002015-11-07T06:50:54.518+00:00Why am I hearing the tunes from Gigi in all this.
...Why am I hearing the tunes from Gigi in all this.<br />We want proper presenters like Mr Moore, do not start me on the Sky at Night. Somewhere there is a cabal of scientific iconoclasts determined to present the pretty side of science.<br />It will end with lace-trimmed abacuses, abba curses on them but it is the name of the game.<br />You are correct it will be out in Dec but will be Jan/Feb. Current Archaeology are also running articles in Jan on CRyf etc.<br />Brian's typewriter will be bathed in righteous indignation and PO profits up that month.<br />MMyris of Alexandrianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-8647126196885900372015-11-06T21:57:29.263+00:002015-11-06T21:57:29.263+00:00Stop this blog - sledging of Alice Roberts!! She i...Stop this blog - sledging of Alice Roberts!! She is, after all, half - WELSH, she took her second (Anatomy) degree in Cardiff (her maternal grandmother was sad she'd never learned Welsh). Alice says she loves walking in Wales, and she took her 18 - month - old daughter for a walk right up Sugarloaf Mountain when she was 18 months old.<br /><br />She also strikes me, as well as the academic world and the BBC, as being extremely intelligent. The ladies have ex - pop star Lancastrian Professor Brian Cox to gawp at; men have Alice from Bristol, who cannot help also being multi - talented.<br />TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-90337617395509624212015-11-06T21:27:24.851+00:002015-11-06T21:27:24.851+00:00Don't think it will be the December issue of B...Don't think it will be the December issue of B.A., Myris. It may APPEAR in December, but will likely be the January - February 2016 edition.......... Mike Pitts likes to keep one step ahead.<br /><br />I look forward to reading Brian's letter in the issue after that, on the same topic. Not TOO cynical, Brian, you may want M.P. to print an article soon....TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-14714563741192107952015-11-06T21:22:54.104+00:002015-11-06T21:22:54.104+00:00Well I'm all for South Western anatomist Prof ...Well I'm all for South Western anatomist Prof Alice Roberts, she is exceeding decorous, and much preferable to her latest tv partner, the backwards - walking, pouting, hair - flicking, ex - archaeologist Celtic Scottish Oliver! - who is not from "Oliver!" (you gotta flicka hairdo or two, you, you gotta flick a hairdo or two, Neil).<br /><br /> I,too, wish she would answer Alice W's last, rather butch, geological avalanche - type remark about arses and elbows. She is, after all, an anatomist.<br /><br />I am guessing, but angry "Ms Alice Wunderland's" more accurate nom de plume might be Petrock Preseli.TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-22987092583700327002015-11-06T16:42:58.136+00:002015-11-06T16:42:58.136+00:00At last! Several years too late. Look forward to...At last! Several years too late. Look forward to reading it and being suitably cynical.....BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-33830289481278542622015-11-06T16:36:44.752+00:002015-11-06T16:36:44.752+00:00Oh I shall steal that.
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The December issue of Bri...Oh I shall steal that.<br />M<br />The December issue of British Archaeology will have a large article on CRyf and Carn Goedog.Myris of Alexandrianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-47044122153284139822015-11-06T16:20:26.605+00:002015-11-06T16:20:26.605+00:00Your cynicism does you credit, Myris. "I win...Your cynicism does you credit, Myris. "I win, we all win" is my noble motto.......BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-78664783527944466272015-11-06T15:53:56.568+00:002015-11-06T15:53:56.568+00:00So long as their are no petrographical Asylums, th...So long as their are no petrographical Asylums, then the world may continue. Boney Alice has a perch in the geology department at Brum Uni, it has tv studios in the same building. Scholarship is not the only method for successfully playing university musical chairs.<br /><br />As the 1930s musical tells us Stay young and beautiful and pretty pout for the camera, <br />Nepotism was far better and more reliable,how the old order changes, lest one good customer should corrupt the world.<br /><br />Good news on the book front, you certain we are not just part of your advertising copy.<br />As ever cynical but with a pure heart<br />MMyris of Alexandrianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-61384568237690441312015-11-06T14:11:49.478+00:002015-11-06T14:11:49.478+00:00Ah, I suspect, Alison, that there are several Alic...Ah, I suspect, Alison, that there are several Alices, some more professorial than others, just as there are no doubt several Alisons, some more petrological than others....BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-31026159259252579572015-11-06T13:38:29.282+00:002015-11-06T13:38:29.282+00:00I see there's no response from Alice Roberts, ...I see there's no response from Alice Roberts, she must be busy professing or whatever.<br />I recommend, that before you air your thoughts to the world, you verify the relative positions of your arse and your elbow.<br /><br />Best wishes from me.<br />Alison Wunderlandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-49994464716624114422015-11-06T13:30:29.097+00:002015-11-06T13:30:29.097+00:00Wonder how our fellow blog - contributor PhilG is ...Wonder how our fellow blog - contributor PhilG is getting on with his obtaining permission to "walk the hard miles" on the Salisbury Plain Training Area beyond the Greater Stonehenge landscape area, generally towards Heytesbury/ Boles Barrow?<br /><br />Anyway, Pete, Simon Banton's collection of photographs of the array of stone types which, no doubt in time, will be shown to be a fairly good representative sample of what the ?Anglian? Ice Sheet deposited all those aeons ago, should prove useful to you in your intrepid search.<br />Take care!TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-61739996903519919212015-11-05T21:44:12.776+00:002015-11-05T21:44:12.776+00:00I? That should be "She".I? That should be "She".TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-47579886915165273622015-11-05T18:18:45.805+00:002015-11-05T18:18:45.805+00:00Professor Alice Roberts, bless her, is still doing...Professor Alice Roberts, bless her, is still doing a nice overview of British archaeological digs, region by region, on BBC4, alongside Matt Williams, 8pm Thursdays.<br /><br />Some very nice summaries on there, with footage of the digs and contributions from the diggers on site.<br /><br />Her visit to "Tim & Geoff Going Wild Up Carn Menyn" was from an early series. I appears to still be in good health.TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-31033303185317257822015-11-05T17:16:13.115+00:002015-11-05T17:16:13.115+00:00Very good -- look forward to seeing it...Very good -- look forward to seeing it...BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-86995163452049614862015-11-05T16:46:59.021+00:002015-11-05T16:46:59.021+00:00Next year.
The data are not mine and so will be pu...Next year.<br />The data are not mine and so will be published in somewhere suitable when all the authors agree.<br />MMyris of Alexandrianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-23200670554023424762015-11-05T16:33:35.380+00:002015-11-05T16:33:35.380+00:00Lower Palaeozoic Sandstone is now dated? Excellen...Lower Palaeozoic Sandstone is now dated? Excellent. Tell us more, Myris.....BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-30415185084987926022015-11-05T15:43:10.681+00:002015-11-05T15:43:10.681+00:00Dear Professor Alice,
Just for me, for I'm obv...Dear Professor Alice,<br />Just for me, for I'm obviously really stupid, can you explain the connection between the Altar Stone of Stonehenge, which is clearly a sedimentary micaceous sandstone, and the Preseli blustones, which most educated people consider to be igneous.<br />You have me confused.Alison Wunderlandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-2790403399710746512015-11-05T14:11:55.067+00:002015-11-05T14:11:55.067+00:00Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! Enlightenment is the...Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! Enlightenment is there for all who open their eyes and are willing to see...... with just a little help from their already-enlightened friends. Hope you did not catch the flu after that thorough soaking up on the mountain.....BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-28084841679278764812015-11-05T13:54:45.249+00:002015-11-05T13:54:45.249+00:00Dear Alison Wunderland,
are you for real with all...Dear Alison Wunderland,<br /><br />are you for real with all this geological so - called expertise? You should really have gone to the Horse's Mouths, the Oracles, the Founts of ALL Knowledge, aka Prof Tim Darvill and Geoff Wainwright, as I did, with my BBC cameraman, a few years back, up on Carn Menyn, in a rainstorm. I was left in no doubt, as was my cameraman. The myyths literally lifted from my eyes there and then, and I was healed. Thanks, Geoff & Tim.Alice Roberts (Professing)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-24887480733493195092015-11-05T13:54:31.447+00:002015-11-05T13:54:31.447+00:00Ah with you.
The garnet reference in Thomas is odd...Ah with you.<br />The garnet reference in Thomas is odd and difficult to reconcile with anything.<br />#277 and the small bits of Altar Stone are all the same lithology. No problem with that and it is very different from The Lower Palaeozoic Sst (now dated).<br />The only material with lots of garnet (seen by the PRB) is Devonian sst from Milford Haven (stones collected by many people including our genial host).<br />Agreed, thin section 277 and other old thin section at the Nat Hist Museum are all labelled Altar Stone.<br />M<br /><br />Myris of Alexandrianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-24924902173914823972015-11-05T13:13:56.852+00:002015-11-05T13:13:56.852+00:00Hello Myris,
'Big eyes' = correct, but th...Hello Myris,<br /><br />'Big eyes' = correct, but they are failing.<br /><br />Perhaps my last post was a little garbled. <br />The thought is ------ Are the samples in the Stonehenge Layer bone fide Altar Stone? <br /><br />If the sample/s that Thomas collected came from the Altar Stone, then they may have contained abundant garnet, whereas, if ts#277 came from the buried stump 42c, then the garnet may well be absent and Ixer Bevins 2014 would then still stand.<br /><br />Once again the hammer is the answer.Alison Wunderlandnoreply@blogger.com