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800-year-old ring is full of mystery
icCoventry ^
| Jul 15 2005
| Duncan Gibbons
Posted on 07/16/2005 12:19:04 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: T Minus Four
It is how the date a lot of non-organic stuff, by dating the surrounding organic matter, or by relying on geological dating (by dating the corresponding layer of earth that the artifacts were found).
If you manage to find a pile of crap 1000 years old, and stick your ring in it, and manage to bury that pile of crap in an environment consistent with its age so that it would be difficult to detect that the pile of crap had been tampered with, you'd be pretty skilled.
In other words, your argument makes no sense.
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posted on
07/16/2005 2:31:17 AM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: coconutt2000
Yea, someone still wants to play! See my post 17.
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posted on
07/16/2005 2:36:53 AM PDT
by
T Minus Four
(Reparations: people who were never slaves extorting money from people who never owned slaves)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/16/2005 2:40:19 AM PDT
by
hershey
To: T Minus Four
Saw it after I posted my last response.
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posted on
07/16/2005 2:49:18 AM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: uglybiker
it could be a coded token of affection between two lovers, or even a medieval spell. 
Or a symbol of eternal ownership
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posted on
07/16/2005 2:57:38 AM PDT
by
Cowman
(Just when you hit the bottom of the stupid hole you notice the guy next to you is digging)
To: T Minus Four
Do you mean like leaves and soil? If I drop my ring into crap that's been there for 1000 years and they find my ring 100 years later, what does that prove? I know I'm being difficult, but really. Unless they recovered it from a grave or archeological dig, I'm skeptical, and even then it seems it would be a range of dates. And I point out the lack of explanation in the article.
Ditto to all of that ;)
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posted on
07/16/2005 3:29:52 AM PDT
by
Dustbunny
(The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist)
To: R. Scott
EXACTLY!! Or it could mean absolutely nothing. Maybe someone got an engraving tool for Christmas and they decided to practice on this ring. Maybe this was Cracker Jack's first attempt at prizes, and they just didn't get it right the first time.
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posted on
07/16/2005 3:46:58 AM PDT
by
aardvark1
(Eschew obfuscation.)
To: T Minus Four
It appeats to be the long lost and highly cursed Odonnell Clan's "Ring Around The Rosie".
To: Cobra64
Cobra:
I WOULD NOT ONLY DO IT I WOULD RUN TO THE ALTER. TOMMIE
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posted on
07/16/2005 3:47:55 AM PDT
by
Texican
(USMC 1942-1946 Once a MARINE always a MARINE SEMPER FI)
To: aardvark1
Giving it a “magical” tag will help with the publicity angle.
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posted on
07/16/2005 5:11:31 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: nickcarraway
Are they sure the inscription isn't: "Klaatu Barado Nicto"
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posted on
07/16/2005 5:19:54 AM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
To: R. Scott
"An illiterate engraver?"
Probably a graduate of the liberal's public school system.
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posted on
07/16/2005 5:20:47 AM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
To: nickcarraway
On the inside it says, "made in China."
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posted on
07/16/2005 5:26:49 AM PDT
by
corlorde
(New Hampshire)
To: mass55th
There are several examples of engravers, artists, stonecutters etc. making mistakes when copying script – even hieroglyphics. Nothing really unusual. “Free” schools have been around for a long time.
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posted on
07/16/2005 5:30:53 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: nickcarraway
"Je suis une fleur" "amour" " it could be a coded token of affection between two lovers, or even a medieval spell."
Oh my god! I said it! Monkeys are flying out my butt!!!
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posted on
07/16/2005 5:34:46 AM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: uglybiker
One ring to rule them all...Somehow I don't think Sauron would have the sentiment "I am a flower" engraved on the one ring. :-D
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posted on
07/16/2005 5:43:57 AM PDT
by
ahayes
To: nickcarraway
King Alberich, please call the office.
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posted on
07/16/2005 5:48:44 AM PDT
by
Grut
To: R. Scott
An illiterate engraver?Maybe if you press the backward lettering in wax it will read left to right
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posted on
07/16/2005 5:48:55 AM PDT
by
ladyjane
To: ladyjane
It is magic! Read it backwards for the hidden message – like the old LPs from the 60’s!
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posted on
07/16/2005 5:50:30 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: T Minus Four
From someone who searches the desert for artifact, not all of it is 1000 yrs buried. Erosion happens.
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posted on
07/16/2005 5:50:43 AM PDT
by
tiki
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