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Re: Megalithic mapping

Postby Boreades » 2:30 pm

Well, I did think that map of red hair frequency was interesting.
http://observationdeck.io9.com/map-of-r ... -870226462

Tut, thread drift already. That's quite enough of that. I'm off now to find out how to scan an HTML source page, to extract Lat & Long coordinates. I may be gone some time.
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Re: Megalithic mapping

Postby Mick Harper » 2:33 pm

I use this site (or perhaps I got this from you originally)
http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html
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Re: Megalithic mapping

Postby Boreades » 6:51 pm

That's a very good resource (I've not seen it before)

Not only does it give us the data we need for any new Point Of Interest, it's shown me what depth of precision we need to record for each location.
e.g.
Latitude:51.465685
Longitude:-1.710083

In SQL database terms, that's DECIMAL(10,6)
To make sure we can cope with the extremes of the data set
-180 to +180
or
-179.999999 to +179.999999
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Re: Megalithic mapping

Postby Mick Harper » 12:55 am

I use it conjunction with this site that allows you to draw Great Circles
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/calculators

By the by, there's a bloke called Robert Soper over on the Megalithic Portal who sounds as though he's making a map with some of your principles in mind
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=6373&forum=4&start=0
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Re: Megalithic mapping

Postby macausland » 9:03 am

Good morning Borry.

Our favourite source of stone age thinking and knowledge, the Daily Mail, brings news of a new circle thingy with henges and whatever.

Apparently it has been found on a Kentish council estate. So no megalithic snobbery there.

The good news is brought by our favourite organ from work done by SWAT archaeology who specialise in finding holes to dig.

Here is the Mail's article which has a video which must have been taken by a flying frog if the small shadow is to go by. Must have stuck a webcam on its head then told it to jump.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... ourne.html

The SWAT site is here. Lots of downloadable pdfs at the bottom of the page. I haven't yet had time to look at them so I'm not sure what they all contain.

Anyway Sittingbourne could provide one of your latitude markers perhaps.

http://www.swatarchaeology.co.uk/

They say that they are using the GPS system to pinpoint positions etc. And advise similar minded people to use this resource. Not sure if it costs.

'Swat Survey uses the National GPS Network to obtain accurate positions in the national coordinate system. The Ordnance Survey is fully adopting GPS positioning as the basis of all national coordinate systems. All surveyors who want to take advantage of the new infrastructure will therefore need access to survey grade GPS equipment.'

Here's a pdf with details

http://www.swatarchaeology.co.uk/pdf/assesments/GPS.pdf

Here's a page from the Ordnance Survey with more information on these systems.

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/busines ... afaq9#faq9

And here's a useful, perhaps, pdf by the Survey explaining latitude and longitude and points in between.

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/docs/su ... ritain.pdf
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Re: Megalithic mapping

Postby hvered » 9:57 am

I'm glad this was brought up. The report I read said the site was first uncovered in the 1870's so presumably the reason it's become newsworthy is that the land, formerly owned by paper mills I believe, has been bought by developers.

Sittlingbourne is on Watling Street, now the A2, and across the Swale is the Isle of Sheppey.

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The North Kent coastline is one of the most interesting areas of British Megalithia. The Isle of Thanet seems to have had some sort of 'serpent' connection -- Wiki has a quote from Isidore of Seville which is reminiscent of the St Patrick legend

Thanet, "an island of the ocean separated from Britain by a narrow channel ... [was] called Tanatos from the death of serpents; for while it has none of its own, soil taken from it to any place whatsoever kills snakes there
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Re: Megalithic mapping

Postby spiral » 7:44 am

hvered wrote:The North Kent coastline is one of the most interesting areas of British Megalithia. The Isle of Thanet seems to have had some sort of 'serpent' connection -- Wiki has a quote from Isidore of Seville which is reminiscent of the St Patrick legend

Thanet, "an island of the ocean separated from Britain by a narrow channel ... [was] called Tanatos from the death of serpents; for while it has none of its own, soil taken from it to any place whatsoever kills snakes there

Is there any megalithic area without a serpent or dragon connection?

Perhaps you can name a few.
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Re: Megalithic mapping

Postby hvered » 7:36 am

spiral wrote:Is there any megalithic area without a serpent or dragon connection?

Perhaps you can name a few.


The west coast of Scotland. As you know, we've been investigating the Scottish meridian, rich in megalithic signposting (a menhir to every loch it seems) but poor in mineral and metal-working terms which seems, from TME's point of view, to explain the absence of dragon/serpent references.
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Re: Megalithic mapping

Postby spiral » 12:49 pm

Scotland supposedly has two serpent mounds, one Ayrshire and one in Argyll, both on the west coast.

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=19474

Serpent carvings on stones are more common on the Scottish east coast, and in Ireland.
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Re: Megalithic mapping

Postby spiral » 7:03 am

What is the difference between the Loch Ness monster and Dinder Dragon?

Err Size

They are both reworkings of the Last of.......

In Scotland, young children foolishly grab onto the neck of the sea monster for a ride.


Neck has an interesting etymology
on-line etymology wrote:Old English hnecca "neck, nape, back of the neck" (a fairly rare word) from Proto-Germanic *hnekk- "the nape of the neck" (cognates: Old Frisian hnekka, Middle Dutch necke, Dutch nek, Old Norse hnakkr, Old High German hnach, German Nacken "neck"), with no certain cognates outside Germanic, though Klein's sources suggest PIE *knok- "high point, ridge" (source of Old Irish cnocc, Welsh cnwch, Old Breton cnoch "hill").
cf Knucker, Knocker Tommy Knocker.........

Ness placenames are commonly thought of as a promontory, they join the torso to the head.
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