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Former Dornoch man discovers 5500-year-old cup in loch
Northern Times ^
| June 23, 2020
| Mike Merritt
Posted on 06/28/2020 12:43:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: RJS1950
If memory serves, that one was attributed to a more or less historical ruler?
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posted on
06/28/2020 2:01:05 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What are their FR nicks?)
To: piasa
If they're Scottish, they'll really go crazy that there's no unopened ones.
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06/28/2020 2:01:38 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What are their FR nicks?)
To: M Kehoe
Those don't get discarded until they've been finished off. :^)
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posted on
06/28/2020 2:02:15 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What are their FR nicks?)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
It could be they were just a bunch of butterfingers. :^)
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posted on
06/28/2020 2:02:35 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Soooo, cranberry egg nog has existed for thousands of years?
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posted on
06/28/2020 2:04:21 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: tet68
Emphasis on the nog. In fact, screw the cranberries and eggs. :^)
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posted on
06/28/2020 2:12:23 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Jonty30
and then when your gone your kids would throw it out.
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posted on
06/28/2020 2:50:10 PM PDT
by
kvanbrunt2
(spooks won on day 76)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/28/2020 4:22:35 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
To: SunkenCiv
Mr Murray described it as "a beautiful example" of the Neolithic age and was the first person to drink from it in thousands of years.And was the first person to come down with some unknown disease that the mug harbored.
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posted on
06/28/2020 5:34:53 PM PDT
by
Oatka
To: Oatka
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posted on
06/28/2020 7:59:45 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
They lived there for 2,500 years. Let's say every ten years there was an oops! That is a lot of drinking vessels.
I tend to start off with, "Having rejected the notion that our ancestors spent all their time playing with toys or praying, what other logical explanations are there?"
Sometimes, possibly they were toys or religious objects. But I see no harm in looking at other possibilities.
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06/28/2020 9:04:37 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Leave it to me to be holdin' the matches when the fire truck shows up & there's nobody else to blame)
To: SunkenCiv
I have a “bicycle cup” (collapsible and made of metal - Dad called it a bicycle cup because his Dad rode a bicycle and peddled bug and tar remover after coming to America from Poland) from the 20s - before he died, Dad gave it to me as the only item he had that had belonged to his Dad.
Sits in our china cabinet and will go to my son someday.
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06/29/2020 3:21:57 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
To: SunkenCiv
Thanks..I spent the rest of the night watching Time Team Shows on YouTube. They are really interesting and I actually learned something. Pretty good for an old dog.
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06/29/2020 8:14:57 AM PDT
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OldGoatCPO
(No Caitiff Choir of Angles will sing for me)
To: SunkenCiv
And at this entire modern archaeological site not a single person has a cell phone capable of taking a quick pic to go along with the article, amazing....
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06/30/2020 3:54:05 PM PDT
by
Thurifer the Censer
(If you can see the altar, there's not enough smoke)
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