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Unique pre-Viking Age monuments uncovered at Old Uppsala pagan ceremonial site in Sweden
Fox News ^ | October 17, 2013 | Associated Press

Posted on 11/03/2013 6:24:48 PM PST by SunkenCiv

As archaeologists dug in preparation for a new railway line, they found traces of two rows of wooden pillars in Old Uppsala... One stretched about 1,000 yards and the other was half as long... were likely from the 5th century...

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; sweden; uppsala; vikings
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1 posted on 11/03/2013 6:24:48 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

2 posted on 11/03/2013 6:25:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: SunkenCiv

“If you like your pagan ceremonial site, you can keep your pagan ceremonial site.”


3 posted on 11/03/2013 6:31:23 PM PST by vladimir998
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Flygfoto, Karin Eriksson Ekero

Flygfoto, Karin Eriksson Ekero

4 posted on 11/03/2013 6:33:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: SunkenCiv

The Swedes worshipped fences. I knew it. I just knew it.


5 posted on 11/03/2013 6:35:39 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

Good observation. They are too close together for a telephone line, so it must have been a holy fence.


6 posted on 11/03/2013 6:41:29 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: SunkenCiv

I went out in the back yard and dug a hole by the fence. I put a naked Barbie doll, a nerf ball and three dog turds in it. Wait until some archeologist digs that up in two thousand years. That’s right. They’re going to be thinking that about us. I’m making history.


7 posted on 11/03/2013 6:41:51 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: JimSEA

Naw....the Swedes were using mobile phones back then.


8 posted on 11/03/2013 6:44:19 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SunkenCiv; Revolting cat!

9 posted on 11/03/2013 6:50:37 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: vladimir998; Slings and Arrows

10 posted on 11/03/2013 6:51:19 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: SunkenCiv

Spear and magic helmeeeet!


11 posted on 11/03/2013 6:56:42 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Exciting find: Archaeologist Fredrik Thölin sitting next to one of the foundations where the wooden poles were erected around every 20 feet

IMAGES

12 posted on 11/03/2013 6:57:10 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: blueunicorn6; SunkenCiv

Toilet seat ring with a LEGO figure seated on a chair displayed in center, a ring of flat rocks, sand flooring, gravel walkway, buried under charcoal sh and peat.


13 posted on 11/03/2013 6:58:54 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: blueunicorn6

It’s about time you buried that naked Barbie doll.


14 posted on 11/03/2013 7:32:54 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Fred Nerks

Thanks FN!


15 posted on 11/03/2013 7:33:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: SunkenCiv

it`s a humongous giant linear sundial-
the smaller one is a moondial=


16 posted on 11/03/2013 7:35:24 PM PST by bunkerhill7 ((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.)))
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17 posted on 11/03/2013 8:49:09 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv; Slump Tester

“We’ll have to import fill, this stuff has a crap R value...”


18 posted on 11/03/2013 11:19:59 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: SunkenCiv

looking at the shape of the road, I wonder if these timbers were discovered forty years ago.

“Hey Ole - what’s up with all of these wood posts?”

“Off Da Sven. Looks like an ancient Viking site. Just shovel that back up and we’ll move the road over or it will NEVER get done.”

(And whatever was buried must have been something REALLY spectacular to warrant the big jog near the top of the photo.)


19 posted on 11/03/2013 11:46:40 PM PST by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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To: blueunicorn6

When I was a child — about 6, or 7 — I used to write fanciful notes and stick them behind the floor and casing moldings of my grandmother’s house, hoping that someday somebody would find them when they tore the house down and imagine some ridiculous story about who lived there.

The house (more than 125 years old) was sold out of the family about 10 years ago. I’ll have to check to see if it is still standing the next time I visit her town.


20 posted on 11/04/2013 7:58:36 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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