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Early sketch of Stonehenge found
The Guardian ^
| 27 Nov 2006
| Maev Kennedy
Posted on 11/29/2006 4:27:10 PM PST by FLOutdoorsman
The oldest detailed drawing of Stonehenge, found in a 1440 manuscript, the Scala Mundi
They got the date wrong by some 3,000 years, but the oldest detailed drawing of Stonehenge, apparently based on first hand observation, has turned up in a 15th century manuscript.
The little sketch is a bird's eye view of the stones, and shows the great trilithons, the biggest stones in the monument, each made of two pillars capped with a third stone lintel, which stand in a horseshoe in the centre of the circle. Only three are now standing, but the drawing, found in Douai, northern France, suggests that in the 15th century four of the original five survived.
In the Scala Mundi, the Chronicle of the World, Merlin is given credit for building Stonehenge between 480 and 486, when the Latin text says he "not by force, but by art, brought and erected the giant's ring from Ireland". Modern science suggests that the stones went up from 2,500 BC, with the bluestone outer circle somehow transported from west Wales, and the double decker bus-size sarsen stones dragged 30 miles across Salisbury plain.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Unclassified; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; sketch; stonehenge; uk
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To: tubebender
Yep, that's as good as it gets.
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posted on
11/29/2006 9:11:01 PM PST
by
Boiler Plate
(Mom always said why be difficult, when with just a little more effort you can be impossible.)
To: windsorknot
I was always partial to Intravenus DeMilo myself...
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posted on
11/29/2006 10:15:05 PM PST
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uglybiker
(Don't look at me. I didn't make you stupid.)
To: blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; ...
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posted on
11/29/2006 10:16:30 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: robertpaulsen; SunkenCiv
Artist: Look, look. Look, this is what I was asked to build. Eighteen inches. Right here, it specified eighteen inches. I was given this napkin, I mean...I know that guy!
Bloody Stupid Johnson, the Disk World's most famous engineer and builder.
I'd recognize his handiwork anywhere, inside or out, (or even inside out) of Ankh-Morpork.
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posted on
11/29/2006 11:52:23 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: windsorknot
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posted on
11/30/2006 12:40:32 AM PST
by
Cheapskate
( You got your pitchfork and I got my gun, somthin's got to give !)
To: Normal4me
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posted on
11/30/2006 12:49:31 AM PST
by
raygun
(Whenever I see U.N. blue helmets I feel like laughing and puking at the same time.)
To: the invisib1e hand
No. Actually pretty boring. Go away.
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posted on
11/30/2006 12:50:41 AM PST
by
raygun
(Whenever I see U.N. blue helmets I feel like laughing and puking at the same time.)
To: Tribune7
[furtive glances righ/left,etc.]
CLOMP!
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posted on
11/30/2006 12:54:41 AM PST
by
raygun
(Whenever I see U.N. blue helmets I feel like laughing and puking at the same time.)
To: KillTime
NOBODY NOTICED THIS BOOK. PERIOD. EVER. Stop makin' a big deal out of it.
Now can we just get on with things? GEEEEEEZ. For crying out loud...
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posted on
11/30/2006 1:01:40 AM PST
by
raygun
(Whenever I see U.N. blue helmets I feel like laughing and puking at the same time.)
To: Bigh4u2
Maybe they're "fake but accurate"...
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11/30/2006 5:05:04 AM PST
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Andonius_99
(They [liberals] aren't humans, but rather a species of hairless retarded ape.)
To: EternalVigilance
While everything you say may very well be true, it still looks like it's drawn on a steno pad, using a Sharpie.Didn't DaVinci invent Sharpies?
To: Bigh4u2
"Yeah,Yeah, that's it. A 'copy'!! "
Faxed from Kinko's, right?
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posted on
11/30/2006 5:58:19 AM PST
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
To: ALASKA
"It's only a model............."
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Shhhh!
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posted on
11/30/2006 6:00:56 AM PST
by
freedomlover
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To: raygun
Hahah wtf was that about? Making a big deal? er...you feeling ok?
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posted on
11/30/2006 7:07:50 AM PST
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KillTime
(Democracies that can't distinguish between good and evil or deny any difference shall surely perish.)
To: Bigh4u2
what about the 'lined' paper? Common in manuscripts, but you had to rule your own lines. They also used small pinpricks to transfer lines.
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posted on
11/30/2006 7:24:56 AM PST
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LexBaird
(98% satisfaction guaranteed. There's just no pleasing some people.)
To: Night Hides Not
Didn't DaVinci invent Sharpies? Don't know about Leo, but when they cleaned up Michaelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel a few years back, they did uncover this in the Creation of Adam section:
(My red-faced apologies to the graphics wizards on FR for my clumsy rendition. I'm on a travel laptop & only have MS Paint!)
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posted on
11/30/2006 7:33:05 AM PST
by
leilani
(Dimmi, dimmi se mai fu fatta cosa alcuna!)
To: LexBaird
"Common in manuscripts, but you had to rule your own lines."
Thanks. I learn something new almost daily.
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posted on
11/30/2006 7:38:44 AM PST
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Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: uglybiker
I rather liked this one as well:
It solicited a two-word review, if I recall correctly.
To: leilani
ROTFLMAO!!! No apologies necessary--I've got to expand my HTML knowledge to do stuff like that.
To: FLOutdoorsman
Hey, I have the check from the Last Supper.
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:13:19 AM PST
by
Lee'sGhost
(Crom!)
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