tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post6486886666082781796..comments2024-03-28T22:13:17.139+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: The aurochs and snow sledge theoryBRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-19988009049845702282016-12-13T19:14:31.110+00:002016-12-13T19:14:31.110+00:00Very handy. Maybe, from a safe distance, he can a...Very handy. Maybe, from a safe distance, he can attribute certain outrageous statements to his ex-colleagues, and be far enough away not to hear their violent outbursts when they find out about it?BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-42769885852012975942016-12-13T17:17:05.263+00:002016-12-13T17:17:05.263+00:00A lot of MPP's Best Buddies are still at Sheff...A lot of MPP's Best Buddies are still at Sheffield University, where he resided for many, many moons, before his move (utilising genetically - resurrected aurochsen?) lock, stock and barbecue to UCL, somewhat east of Stonehenge.TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-25694871001184690682016-12-13T10:22:14.689+00:002016-12-13T10:22:14.689+00:00Quite so, Myris. I still find it quite entertaini...Quite so, Myris. I still find it quite entertaining that when somebody wants to promote the idea that some statement or other is PROBABLY TRUE, the words "according to Cambridge University" or "Oxford University reports that...." or "Aberystwyth University research reveals that...." are used. Or some such nonsense........ MPP uses another old trick. He pretends that many of his more wacky ideas are not his at all, but that they have come from some other expert, sometimes named and sometimes not.....BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-65123617131030316452016-12-13T09:33:12.798+00:002016-12-13T09:33:12.798+00:00Ah that is true for senior geomorphologists too.
...Ah that is true for senior geomorphologists too.<br /><br />Only Sublime Apollo and his most senior acolytes hold the truth (and 'Agios Kostas, of course)the rest is just opinion, prejudice and SWAG.<br /><br />Scientific Wild Arse Guess.<br /><br />M (beloved of Apollo).MoAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-19768040821504945522016-12-12T20:22:43.939+00:002016-12-12T20:22:43.939+00:00Chris -- please don't say "the County His...Chris -- please don't say "the County History says" this, that or the other. That invests things with a certain authority or even infallibility. The chapters were written by individuals who are not at all any wiser than the rest of us -- and in some cases a good deal less so. So -- personal opinions, often seriously flawed. That having been said, type in "Cana" into the search box -- we have 2 posts on the blog on the spotted dolerite used, and why.BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-13790475479981962062016-12-12T17:53:44.809+00:002016-12-12T17:53:44.809+00:00Interesting to look back at the stone collecting a...Interesting to look back at the stone collecting article. The County History also mentions that two stones were sledded from Carn Goedog to Mynachlog-ddu (Lewis 1967, 39).<br /><br />I don't know which route they would take but it is likely they passed very close to Carn Menyn where very similar stones could have been quarried. <br /><br />I wonder why the stones were taken from Carn Goedog in preference?<br /><br />The History also reports that the Cana Independent Chapel near Felindre Farchog was built with spotted dolerite from Carn Goedog, again not the most convenient source.chris johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16210890033354730381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-9184974764813150012016-12-12T17:25:21.113+00:002016-12-12T17:25:21.113+00:00Try 'Car Llusg'
Proper Welsh, not fingers...Try 'Car Llusg'<br /><br />Proper Welsh, not fingers in the wrong places.<br /><br />DaveDave Maynardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162915474983638825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-63645130322647518262016-12-12T16:41:55.641+00:002016-12-12T16:41:55.641+00:00Have a look here:
http://brian-mountainman.blogspo...Have a look here:<br />http://brian-mountainman.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/stone-collecting-on-preseli.htmlBRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-11000387466785637432016-12-12T16:37:02.133+00:002016-12-12T16:37:02.133+00:00All slush and no substance, Chris. Sounds like sl...All slush and no substance, Chris. Sounds like sloppy writing to me -- too much of it about.BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-21608692520282542082016-12-12T13:29:23.126+00:002016-12-12T13:29:23.126+00:00I do stand ever so humbled as in a short shrift, i...I do stand ever so humbled as in a short shrift, it is of course aurochsen. <br />Is it a weak noun?<br />In German it is der Auerochs so die Auerochsen I guess.<br />MMoAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-57958078521030600432016-12-12T13:14:29.882+00:002016-12-12T13:14:29.882+00:00Cited is MPP 2012 p120. The appendix gives "...Cited is MPP 2012 p120. The appendix gives "MPP. 2012. Stonehenge: Exploring the greatest stone age mystery. London. Simon and Schuster"<br /><br />Presumably the reference is to the work done on provenancing the bones from Durrington Walls and the feasting that appears to have taken place. Professor Jane Evans is generally associated with Nottingham University and the British Geological Survey and, of course, the work done on the isotopic origins. I was not aware similar work has been done at Sheffield but MPP would know better of course, or is it sloppy academic editing? Bit of a shame really as a lot of care has been taken with the official Pembrokeshire County History.<br /><br />Myris - try googling Car llsug. It sounds like the slushing of a wooden sledge on a wet welsh hillside.chris johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16210890033354730381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-88333104823814353142016-12-12T12:09:30.695+00:002016-12-12T12:09:30.695+00:00Is this Jane Evans- related work.
How do you say l...Is this Jane Evans- related work.<br />How do you say llsug? retype phonetically please. Does it rhyme with thug?? They crossed a lot of roads!<br />MMoAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-67461185181133496812016-12-12T10:32:55.141+00:002016-12-12T10:32:55.141+00:00Who asserts this? Wainwright? Which Sheffield Un...Who asserts this? Wainwright? Which Sheffield University work? Far too many vague assertions and suppositions in there for comfort, Chris. What is the EVIDENCE for all this stuff? Case still open.BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-27639519724511483812016-12-12T10:06:29.776+00:002016-12-12T10:06:29.776+00:00The Pembrokeshire County History asserts the isoto...The Pembrokeshire County History asserts the isotopic work done by the University of Sheffield which suggests that cattle droving from West Wales to Wiltshire was established by 2500 BC, hence a network of well trodden paths over the hills. The method of transport was almost certainly the llsug, a traditional sled used for transport in Preseli into recorded history.<br /><br />Can't we close the case on this one now?chris johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16210890033354730381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-57864860844164152592016-12-11T21:26:08.028+00:002016-12-11T21:26:08.028+00:00Let's call the whole thing off,
You say auroch...Let's call the whole thing off,<br />You say aurochs,<br />I say arochsen,<br />TomAyto<br />TomAHto<br />PotAto<br />PotAHto<br />Let's call the whole thing off!TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-16149735195926404532016-12-09T11:59:00.773+00:002016-12-09T11:59:00.773+00:00Ah of course there is a germ of an idea here.
But ...Ah of course there is a germ of an idea here.<br />But aurochs were not tameable (I think) and fellow geologist has overlooked evidence on the ground. <br /><br />They were man-hauled by dog-teams, mush mush, as the tooth from Blick Mead clearly demonstrates.<br />At festive times they also brought slate tools and votive pretty pink flint ducks aber nicht von dem Morganland.<br /><br />Oh who was a naughty boy, slipping in a comment about Stonehenge orthostats being erratics. The shaggiest of stories. Pity the quarries prove that absurdity.<br /><br /><br /><br />I once had to comment on a similar theory from a committee working on SH they had men sliding the orthostats on ice. My comments were short and not to their liking.<br /><br />For my money SH and ice have nothing to do with each other from inception to creation to destruction. Well a bit of frost shattering perhaps.<br />M<br /><br /><br /> <br />MoAnoreply@blogger.com