New Views over Megalithia

[Mick Harper]

This needs to be reposted on the AEL because of wider implications.

[Boreades]

I couldn't. Could you spell it out?

I will try. I think the type of logical fallacy is something like "Assumed Causality".

Firstly, by way of an example from something else we know well.

Frisian is the closest of all European languages to English. Closer than that Germanic Saxon stuff that is supposed to have given us Anglo-Saxon English. Linguists have had years of fun arguing the toss on whether English comes from Frisian, or visa-versa. Actually, there's a third option. Both English and Frisian came from somewhere else. That somewhere else, and the "lost history" behind it, would be The Doggerland Revelations.

Frisian has the distinction of being the closest of any language to English. ... The unique closeness of this relationship has always provided something of a problem for the theory that English is descended from the languages of German and Danish invaders who came from much further east than Friesland. However, if we accept that both English and Frisian have been spoken in their current locations for the last 10,000 years -- and that the proto-English which gave rise to both of them was also the language of lost Doggerland -- the paradoxes vanish.

Ref : https://www.panshin.com/trogholm/wonder ... rland.html

M. Harper may have written something similar, but M'Lady Boreades has those books under lock and key, so I can't quote chapter and verse from THOBR.

Secondly, a household object that may be symbolically appropriate. Toilet paper.

If there is only one supermarket in our town that sells the brand of toilet paper we have in our house, a visitor might assume that the rolls of toilet paper in our house must have come from the local supermarket. Wrong! Both could have been supplied from another source.

So, turdly, we get to the Scottish Stones. Note that Al Beeb is still clinging to the old myth that other stones were moved by human effort all the way from Wales. When it's clear that story was invented by one Welsh geologist c.1920 for a feel-good story post-WW1. And was roundly ridiculed by other Welsh geologists who were less keen on mythical fabrications. But the mythical story persists, like a megalithic Camelot.

Al Beeb confidently tell us:

The Australian team had access to one of the most comprehensive global rock fingerprint databases and found the best match was from the Orcadian Basin, which includes the Caithness, Orkney, and Moray Firth regions of north-eastern Scotland.

With no mention at all of glacial erratics, or movement of material for 100's of mile by glaciers. To which "careful ignoral" is being applied.

Is that enough for the moment?

[Boreades]

It appears that what we used to call "The Greater Ridgeway" has been rebranded.

It's now "The Great Chalk Way"
http://greatchalkway.org.uk/

Google Map of it
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mi ... 068535&z=8

Paul Whitewick says

The Ridgeway Mystery: You NEVER knew!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO2eEGARfms

Ah well, what did we know 12+ years ago?

[Mick Harper]

Why do they always go straight over the top when they've got a new theory? The truth is never boring in their world. And why does there always have to be a little homily about how we must all live together in liberal harmony. And why are there always morris dancers somewhere in the background? Still Ogbourne St George got a mention and that's the main thing.

PS The Youtube can be seen by cutting and pasting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO2eEGARfms if the Borry click doesn't work.

[Boreades]

And why does there always have to be a little homily about how we must all live together in liberal harmony. And why are there always morris dancers somewhere in the background?

Rhetorical questions Shirley? I'm sure you know why, but just in case others don't...

Firstly, to show due diligent genuflection (by the aspiring presenter) to the gods of Diversity, Inclusion and Equality (DIE), and ensure your content is YouTube-worthy. Some say we're all gonna DIE anyway, so may as well lie back and enjoy it while we can.

Secondly (or thirstly), to give Tisi and me an excuse to work up a thirst for the pub in the background. Being the support crew and extras in all these fillums is hard work.

[Boreades]

Taller Than Stonehenge And Forgotten

At Boroughbridge in Yorkshire, three of the largest prehistoric monoliths in Britain, sometimes called the Devil's Arrows.

Apparently on an alignmnet with Thornborough and Nunwick Henges



More in a EweTube video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MAnysCXOI4