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Prehistoric standing stone falls over
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| February 2, 2011
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Posted on 02/21/2011 10:19:43 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Who had February 2011 in the pool?
To: Bernard Marx; mewzilla
At another site (probably Avebury, but I don’t know) a gubmint project to raise all the fallen stones led to the discovery of the remains of a 15th or 16th c man (dated based on the coins found in a pocket) who apparently had been involved in the use of the site as a quarry, and paid the price.
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posted on
02/21/2011 11:28:39 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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posted on
02/21/2011 11:32:35 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: Little Bill
The resemblance is so obvious it immediately struck the early colonists, but they were often too busy building 4000 year old colonial root cellars and carving Celtic Ogham inscriptions using only their plowshares. ;’) There’s a table rock on three supporting stones right up on Lookout Mountain as well.
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posted on
02/21/2011 11:35:18 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: SunkenCiv
I had some family killed on Lookout Mountain, are you sure it wasn't a Rebel hiding place?
We got out of Mass and went to Conn, the year after we hit the beach and never paid much attention to rocks, the natives were restless. I think that the options of keeping your hair and archaeological investigations was kind of predetermined.
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posted on
02/21/2011 11:58:06 AM PST
by
Little Bill
(Harry Browne is a Poofter.)
To: SunkenCiv
I’m not buying the climate story. Betcha it was a bunch of teenagers out one night on a cow tipping expedition.
To: SunkenCiv
I’m not buying the climate story. Betcha it was a bunch of teenagers out one night on a cow tipping expedition.
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posted on
02/21/2011 1:21:56 PM PST
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posted on
02/21/2011 1:30:23 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: SunkenCiv
Nearly all the neolithic sites in England were scavenged for local building stone until their archaeological value was finally understood. I visited Stonehenge and Avebury in the mid-90s and picked up a very informative little book at one of the English Heritage bookshops, "Discovering Prehistoric England."
It describes 640 prehistoric sites throughout England -- there are many more in Scotland and Ireland. Of Avebury's original 98 standing stones only 27 remain today (unless erosion has toppled more since the book was written). I walked the 1,280 meter circumference of Avebury's Great Ditch and was astounded by the sheer volume of dirt and chalk that were removed with nothing more than bone tools.
To: SunkenCiv
Several thousand years from now, archeologists will find this fallen stone and deduce it was ritually overthrown as part of a change to a new religion.
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posted on
02/21/2011 3:33:59 PM PST
by
wildbill
(You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
To: Colonel_Flagg; SunkenCiv
Hes no fun, he fell right over.
Firesign Theatre+ 1.
First thing that came to my weird mind also.
There's no way they can be in two places at once when they are not anywhere at all.
Also see:
Fudd's First Law of Opposition:
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.
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posted on
02/21/2011 3:52:43 PM PST
by
Tainan
(Cogito Ergo Conservitus.)
To: SunkenCiv
Human remains were found underneath the scheduled monument at the end of the 18th century. Perhaps it was scheduled to fall at that day and time and it fell on schedule.
So what's the problem?
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posted on
02/21/2011 4:41:49 PM PST
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: Colonel_Flagg
I think we’re all bozo’s on this bus
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posted on
02/21/2011 6:10:41 PM PST
by
Mr. K
(Job #1 is to DEFUND THE LEFT~!!!!)
To: Grizzled Bear
There should be a bell on that thing.
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posted on
02/21/2011 6:17:58 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: wildbill
Wait- are you sayin’ it wasn’t?
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posted on
02/21/2011 6:19:22 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: SunkenCiv
I don’t understand. Did they know this stone was placed over human remains or is this a discovery due to the fact that the stone fell? Seems they aught to make more of it, being that it is evidently a grave with a marker, of ancient times.
So, do they think the buried remains signify an important person or a very beloved person? I take it ‘important’ as there are prob more of these graves.
As Spock would say, ‘fascinating’.
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posted on
02/21/2011 8:33:39 PM PST
by
Beowulf9
To: Beowulf9; SunkenCiv
The person interred under this stone was no ordinary man or woman.in some modern countries even today, the ancient view that man can transcend humanity to a devine state still
is with us.One need to look no further than the ancient Shinto tradition of Japan and its kami.
These standing stones remind me very much of the Shinto view of man, nature and this devine principle.
The stone is a symbol of primordial stroke, a lightning bolt of instantaneous transformation.
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posted on
02/21/2011 9:31:40 PM PST
by
Candor7
(Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
To: SunkenCiv
I’m glad they’re going to put it back up - wonder if they’ll find anything under it?
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posted on
02/22/2011 3:44:14 AM PST
by
arderkrag
(Georgia is God's Country.----------In the same way Rush is balance, I am consensus.)
To: Tainan
There's no way they can be in two places at once when they are not anywhere at all. "Think I'll take the ol' Antelope." :)
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posted on
02/22/2011 10:12:04 AM PST
by
Colonel_Flagg
("It's hard to take the president seriously." - Jim DeMint)
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