Posted on 02/21/2011 10:19:43 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The Carlinwell stone at Airlie, near Kirriemuir, toppled over as the snow, ice and frost from the long cold spell melted away.
The 7ft prehistoric unsculptured standing stone is situated on the crest of a knoll on a farm. Human remains were found underneath the scheduled monument at the end of the 18th century. It is one of a number of standing stones across the country.
Historic Scotland is now looking to carry out an investigative dig of the site, before reinstating the stone.
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Who had February 2011 in the pool?
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.
LOL!
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.
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.
I’m not buying the climate story. Betcha it was a bunch of teenagers out one night on a cow tipping expedition.
I’m not buying the climate story. Betcha it was a bunch of teenagers out one night on a cow tipping expedition.
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.
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.
+ 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.
Perhaps it was scheduled to fall at that day and time and it fell on schedule.
So what's the problem?
I think we’re all bozo’s on this bus
There should be a bell on that thing.
Wait- are you sayin’ it wasn’t?
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’.
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.
I’m glad they’re going to put it back up - wonder if they’ll find anything under it?
"Think I'll take the ol' Antelope." :)
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