tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post6728352093998225039..comments2024-03-28T14:00:12.372+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: Stuart Piggott at work (not Atkinson)BRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-15910780023270304992017-06-26T08:23:34.449+01:002017-06-26T08:23:34.449+01:00
I thought I had posted this earlier this week, g...<br /><br />I thought I had posted this earlier this week, getting used to a new laptop and windows 10<br />3rd time lucky<br />Tony, I only spoke to one person between Adams grave and Knap Hill, were you about to fly off into the blue was it last Tuesday? (now a week last) We, me and the hound were not at our best, she does not like mysterious things in the air and my other hound Horace died the day before. She is still quite a hound though and they both had rather high mph in their day. <br />You are right about the EH guide it would have many updates (mostly due to the Stonehenge Riverside findings) to the 2004 guide that I worked with Julian on, but I think there may have been more interference on the latest guide from EH/HE academics who have a very high opinion of themselves. The reconstructions as you mention should be based on the latest interpretations and discoveries and yet many seem to have details wrong or just not shown.<br />Shame the guide is not available in the public libraries no doubt due to austerity. <br />Julian is producing a revised “Story So Far” book too.<br />The paintings in the Hospice sound very interesting. <br />Peter Dunnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-36958058873542391712017-06-23T17:40:57.950+01:002017-06-23T17:40:57.950+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Peter Dunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05417233316425767843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-18290445269251821752017-06-17T21:46:50.311+01:002017-06-17T21:46:50.311+01:00Talking of reconstructions, recently visited the n...Talking of reconstructions, recently visited the new Julia's House Children's Hospice in Devizes. Artists have produced wonderful recreations of shapes similar to those found on rocks carved by prehistoric man; also large scale photographs of Avebury stones.<br /><br />TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-5821115301796406112017-06-16T17:08:37.246+01:002017-06-16T17:08:37.246+01:00Peter, Brian and I like to monitor the text of th...Peter, Brian and I like to monitor the text of the Stonehenge official E.H. Guide - in relation to its use of the MPP (et al) Ruling Hypothesis stating that glaciers couldn't POSSIBLY have been involved in moving the bluestones the majority of the distance from Preseli to Stonehenge.<br /><br /> Also, as far as the good ratepayers of Wiltshire are concerned, surely Julian Richard's revisions of the E.H. text in each new edition is money well spent to educate our local folk about recent discoveries, interpretations, and artistic reconstructions based on 21st Century digs and related research? At less than a Fiver it seems like a BARGAIN but not even Amesbury and Salisbury public libraries has a copy of the Guide in their stocks, such is the parsimonious attitude of stock contollers. TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-51363624764489285382017-06-15T21:07:16.190+01:002017-06-15T21:07:16.190+01:00That's some Hound Dog you've got there, Pe...That's some Hound Dog you've got there, Peter, ain't nuthin' but a....,last seen aeons ago on Windmill Hill, Knap Hill and Golden Ball Hill? What's his average m.p.h.?TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-42600111733080892572017-06-15T10:55:42.461+01:002017-06-15T10:55:42.461+01:00A bit marginal, sounds like they have had too many...A bit marginal, sounds like they have had too many rides on the Marackesh Express. Graham Nash some time singer? <br /><br />There is better interpretation and understanding of most sites than an EH guide, even written by Julian R. apart from many of the reconstructions which are usually quite good.<br /><br />Tony... Detectorists briliant. <br /><br />Myris.... American Gods, Ian Mchsane AKA Wodin briliant.<br /><br />I must have missed the significance of the Troggs.<br /><br />Peter Dunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05417233316425767843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-1346610038234689132017-06-14T22:33:17.913+01:002017-06-14T22:33:17.913+01:00But please bear in mind, my last comment DID draw ...But please bear in mind, my last comment DID draw attention to the curious Wiltshire Library Service decision to stock just ONE copy of the Official Stonehenge Guidebook, published and revised by English Heritage and written by Julian Richards!! THAT wasn't marginal! I think they would plead lack of funds. <br /><br />Perhaps the Days of Dave - and - George - type Austerity are nearly over, and then, the great Wiltshire public may be as up - to - date on Stonehenge research as the average South American visitor to The Ruin on Salisbury Plain. What say you, Brian?TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-91759930172560356272017-06-14T10:31:53.257+01:002017-06-14T10:31:53.257+01:00Getting a bit marginal here, folkies -- but I supp...Getting a bit marginal here, folkies -- but I suppose with runes and Stenness we can just about get away with it......BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-26164309893531553102017-06-14T09:41:44.551+01:002017-06-14T09:41:44.551+01:00And the wonderful bootleg Troggs tape with all the...And the wonderful bootleg Troggs tape with all the door slamming.<br />After a little psychotropic mind altering, it was the tape to listen to. A firm folkie favourite. <br />"split yer hands"<br /><br />Talking of witch(sic)Toni Arthur was called weird in this months issue of Fortean Times. Totally untrue, wonderful woman. 'Harken to the Witches Rune' Dave and Toni Arthur. Leader Records (Bill is still alive)has a folk song about the Stones of Stenness.<br />Was and is a lovely, lovely lady and Bill is just splendid Bill and should have got gongs galore.<br />MMyris of Alexandrianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-42523546145036280132017-06-12T18:00:50.472+01:002017-06-12T18:00:50.472+01:00Reg must have written "Love Is All Around&quo...Reg must have written "Love Is All Around", whilst standing in the centre of Stonehenge. Gotta be. <br /><br />Anyone else watched the wonderful "Detectorists", currently being repeated? My local library here in Wiltshire stocks the DVD, folks. (However, there's only one copy of the up - to - date official Stonehenge Guide in the whole of Wiltshire Library Service - and that's where the Archaeology Service is, in the History Centre, Cippenham!)TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-2217519049113783852017-06-11T22:28:14.649+01:002017-06-11T22:28:14.649+01:00no I haven't. Reg was a regular at the Barge I...no I haven't. Reg was a regular at the Barge Inn, Alton Barnes.<br />During one quiz night the question "Who wrote Love is all Around?" came up to which Reg shouted out "That'd be Me then!"PeteGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06602290459387947074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-41311068865572343202017-06-11T18:42:52.726+01:002017-06-11T18:42:52.726+01:00Massachussetts is one place I ain't been (sigh...Massachussetts is one place I ain't been (sigh).<br /><br />Pete, have you ever been to The Eponymous Festival. If so, who did you see? If not, who would you like to have seen e.g. the late Reg Presley (archaeology enthusiast) and The Troggs; photographer and some - time singer, Graham Nash.TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-9563414074540511072017-06-06T02:07:10.243+01:002017-06-06T02:07:10.243+01:00Neil old man, your memory is letting you down.
I ...Neil old man, your memory is letting you down. <br />I did a special access for astronomers to see the lunar eclipse in September 2015.<br />Buzz Alrdin had already visited earlier in the year and I didn't take his photo.<br />However I did take a photo of an astronomer with the same t-shirt mimmicking Buzz.<br />Dr Ed Krupp of the Griffith Observatory in LA doesn't wear a wig.<br />PeteG<br /><br />PS I was Nowhere near Wales two weekends ago and that is Not a photo of me in the hills!PeteGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06602290459387947074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-90901813217622800942017-06-05T14:35:18.763+01:002017-06-05T14:35:18.763+01:00Belated apologies to everyone who prefers to keep ...Belated apologies to everyone who prefers to keep this a Donald Trump - free site.TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-80279889449907316772017-06-05T10:56:23.129+01:002017-06-05T10:56:23.129+01:00The Trumpesque toupee is unique and knows no natio...The Trumpesque toupee is unique and knows no nationality. If he ever even looked at the sky it would probably be to sue it for being above him.<br /><br />Your message found its way to me because the Lights are Always on in Massachusetts ...ND Wisemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11925248433335448747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-39390812434169077782017-06-04T18:00:55.044+01:002017-06-04T18:00:55.044+01:00Neil
So, tell, which American astronomer wears a ...Neil<br /><br />So, tell, which American astronomer wears a big wig? What colour? Trump-esque? Surely that one will be heavily patented.<br /><br />[This message has now to wing its way to southern Sweden before it can Go Back To....I think... Massachussetts, Bee Gees style.]TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-22889762804763785302017-06-03T11:22:09.544+01:002017-06-03T11:22:09.544+01:00Tony,
The man in the picture lighting a cigarette...Tony,<br /><br />The man in the picture lighting a cigarette is shielding his match from the prevailing southwest wind in a stance which is universal. (Being a smoker, I can attest.)<br /><br />Buzz Aldrin was a guest at Stonehenge with a group of astro-buffs in September 2015, if memory serves. Pete Glastonbury was involved in organizing the meet and took the iconic photo of Buzz in front of the stones, holding his shirt open ala Superman, sporting a tee shirt which blared: "Get your ass to Mars!"<br />I got a coveted invitation to that one, but sadly was unable to attend. Some big-wig American astronomer got my ticket.<br /><br />Neil<br />ND Wisemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11925248433335448747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-18390128359467310172017-06-01T21:55:49.155+01:002017-06-01T21:55:49.155+01:00Myris, there was a nasty rumour going round that a...Myris, there was a nasty rumour going round that after Sherpa Tensing met a rather irritable Duke of Edinburgh, he took up Qi Gong.TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-81364320245014394822017-06-01T16:29:24.986+01:002017-06-01T16:29:24.986+01:00Talking of Sherpa Tensing and his powerful lungs.....Talking of Sherpa Tensing and his powerful lungs.......I gather Frank Sinatra used to swim for long periods underwater in his pool so as to strengthen his lungs for all those Frank songs of his.<br /><br />Saw a one - off photo of Buzz Aldrin and Stonehenge which may be on the net somewhere. Perhaps Neil knows?TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-76978167705586339622017-05-30T09:36:35.078+01:002017-05-30T09:36:35.078+01:00Tensing again has been airbrushed from history. Sh...Tensing again has been airbrushed from history. Shame on you Wiseman.<br /><br />I thought the New Archaeology/postprocessualist archaeology was about the "little people" or artefacts as their shadows. <br />Actually it is about archies who have sucked -up third hand sociology (I blame liberal arts colleges in the Midwest)statistics and semiotics to talk about themselves or rather about how they should consider charting the cultural (forbidden word) ambience or rather how to counter any perceived ambience be it edic or etic before deciding to how to talk about themselves in a new and potentially earth-shattering way.<br />(Book reviewing not going well).<br />M<br /><br />Did they ever, in the real world, give Tensing any sort of gong?Myris of Alexandrianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-26861106629240494652017-05-29T22:11:20.715+01:002017-05-29T22:11:20.715+01:00Neil - that man you know to be lighting a cigarett...Neil - that man you know to be lighting a cigarette (presumably you have inside information?) - this reminds me of the massive ad campaign that W.D. & H.O. Wills launched in the late 1950's:-<br /><br /> YOU'RE NEVER ALONE WITH A STRAND<br /><br />This was an advertising campaign disaster!<br /><br /><br />TonyTonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-72038475954243908612017-05-29T20:29:33.126+01:002017-05-29T20:29:33.126+01:00Peter, you asked a while ago about who was 'Re...Peter, you asked a while ago about who was 'Reggie On The Lintels'. After a great deal of thought, I think the best candidate is actor, the late Leonard Rossiter, also known as Reggie Perrin.<br /><br />Leonard famously starred in Arthur C Clarke's "2001: A Space Odyssey". Remember all those mysterious monoliths on the Moon, etc?TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-40041878531419444832017-05-29T20:22:30.720+01:002017-05-29T20:22:30.720+01:00I did attempt to submit a comment last night which...I did attempt to submit a comment last night which appears to have got lost in cyberspace (unless Brian is using it for some nefarious purpose, such as recycling it for one of his Angel novels etc.).<br /><br />The photograph may well appear in Julian Richards' book Stonehenge: A History in Photographs. I think this is based on a selection from all the English Heritage images.TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-37130552848220633872017-05-29T12:26:55.359+01:002017-05-29T12:26:55.359+01:00Me Again,
If the picture was obtained from the EH...Me Again,<br /><br />If the picture was obtained from the EH photo site it should be noted that though their captions are unusually accurate in most cases there are still some wildly goofy errors. These sometimes transfer into the public consciousness, causing heartache and the rending of garments by those finicky enough to notice such things.<br /><br />Between 1953 and 1964, Atkinson — an avid shutterbug — has left us a legacy of over 2,000 photographs depicting various stages of the Stonehenge investigations. Most of these are now curated by the photo team at EH.<br />Atkinson is credited for all of them — even though he's in more than a few!<br /><br />Other errors in the caption include Stone numbers, listed as -19 and -20. Stone-19 is merely a remnant and -20 is actually missing; both in the west quadrant of the Circle. The Stones referred to in the picture are the sliver of -30 on the left, with -1 & -2 from there. Lintel numbers are correct.<br /><br />Peter — the man on the right isn't heaving over the side. He's lighting a cigarette.<br /><br />Your Pedantic Correspondent,<br />NeilND Wisemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11925248433335448747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-37286134329165655882017-05-29T10:53:47.019+01:002017-05-29T10:53:47.019+01:00Spoilsports! Spoilsports! Peter Dunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05417233316425767843noreply@blogger.com