New Views over Megalithia

[Boreades]

Anyone with a lingering interest in the Society of Sacred Starry Willy Waving should read this:

https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/books ... s_10016510

Followed by:

https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/books ... m_10015761

After all that, you might conclude it's all the effect of drinking too much alcohol earlier in the evening.

Hello Oshifer, I'm just trying to water the sacred moonlit Venus flowers.
or
I've been mad for bleeping years (Dark Side Of The Moon) etc

[Boreades]

New views from space of many megalithic sites are now available at high resolution from the EU Sentinel-2 Data.

The data feed starts here: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/p ... sentinel-2

You have to work your way down to the local sub-grid-square.

Or use Google Earth, via the image collection with id COPERNICUS/S2.

[Mick Harper]

Will it work with Copernicus/M7? I am loath to upgrade unnecessarily.

[TisILeclerc]

News just in.

Stonehenge was built by a Yorkshire terrier. So there's no need for improvised sighting techniques. Just don't look like a tree that's all.

Other experts showed it was likely to have come from hundreds of miles away – in the York area – by looking at chemical signatures in the enamel that show the source of the water the dog drank.

David Jacques, senior research fellow at University of Buckingham, said: “The fact that a dog and a group of people were coming to the area from such a long distance away further underlines just how important the place was two millennia before the circle was built.”

A spokesman for the university added: “History will have to be rewritten because we didn’t know Mesolithic people were travelling such long distances.”

Reading further though we find it was an Alsatian. But hold on, I thought 'German Shepherds' came from Germany. And as we know there were no Germans in Celticland at all at all.

Does this rewrite the Kennel Club rules as well as the rules of St Crufts?

Dogs have been man’s best friend for at least 7,000 years, archaeologists say, after discovering that prehistoric travellers took an Alsatian on a 250-mile-journey from York to Stonehenge.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10 ... of-one-of/

[Boreades]

It was going so well. Up until I read:

She said: “The Alsatian would have been a prized prestige pet and may even have been bought to Stonehenge to be exchanged, in the way pedigree dogs are bought and sold.”

OFFS.

What is it with these people and their obsession with "prized" stuff? If it's not that, it's "elite" or "ritual". It doesn't take much psychology to recognise this is the world they would like to live in, with them being the prized elite ritual rulers. But it's not the world they have fantasies about.

No wonder they are psychologically adverse to the TME position. Nothing much happens for c.4,999 years out of 5,000, because it was the same peaceful routine. Just once or twice, we get a few military skirmishes or small battles, then the landscape goes back to its old peaceful ways.

[TisILeclerc]

Don't knock it Borry. She is from Durham University which sees itself as in the same league as Oxford and Cambridge. Only their students can take their beer.

What's surprising is that she finds it strange that someone would have a dog. As we know from drovers they all had dogs. Very useful companions.

Apart from calling it an Alsatian which is a bit strange unless she really wants to make a case for cross channel dog trading she finds it so strange that it could only be because they might have wanted to sell it or put it in for a prize.

They wonder where all those animal bones came from for those gigantic feasts they had and don't think in terms of someone driving herds of cattle down to Merlin and his merry band of wizards.

Dogs are good protection as well although in her world there's always a nice police chappy or chappesse who can advise when the garden gnome has disappeared again.

She should wander down the mean streets of Durham and observe the drug trade with their staffies and man eating hounds on every street corner to know real pedigree chums.

[Boreades]

She should wander down the mean streets of Durham and observe the drug trade with their staffies and man eating hounds on every street corner to know real pedigree chums.

I'm told by local yoofs that the same is true around Manchester Road in Swindon. Along with the latest craze (for men) of having a jewelled stud inserted into their foreskin. Perhaps Mike should have this done to his personal megalithic measuring rod. Then it would be "twinkle twinkle little star" every time his massive staff was proudly erected and on display at night.

[hvered]

Reading further though we find it was an Alsatian...

Would an archaeologist be able to tell the difference between a German shepherd and a Yorkshire wolf?

[Boreades]

Would an archaeologist be able to tell the difference between a German shepherd and a Yorkshire wolf?

Perhaps, but only if it bit them in their arse.

A Yorkshire wolf-dog would have been a very good companion for these die-hards walking from York to Hastings. Just because.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... mandy.html

They took a big risk going down the A504 past White Hart Lane. Some say that Mick (allegedly a rabid Arsenal supporter) must have been asleep, or in the boozer, or busy playing with his mighty organ. Otherwise he would have given these nouveau-revisionists a mighty thwack.

[Boreades]

Talking about travelling down ancients A-roads reminds me of this.

The A303 past Stonehenge has for decades been a total pain-in-the-arse for anyone travelling that way to & from the West Country. Well, fair enough, nobody (not even Top Gear petrolheads) expects them to build a new dual carriage way through the middle of the "Greater Stonehenge" site to solve the problem.

Except that is exactly what is now being weasel-worded into effect, with a "short tunnel" scheme.

Even though Historic England, English Heritage and the National Trust say they are committed to ensure that "only schemes which protect and enhance the World Heritage Site are progressed" it has just been revealed that Wessex Archaeology are secretly test digging at the very spot where the entrance to one version of the route would be and it's at the very place where it would do maximum damage to the significance of Stonehenge

https://heritageaction.wordpress.com/20 ... n-britain/

Secret Major Stonehenge Excavations For the Tunnel
Visible from the Long Barrow roundabout there is a major machine assisted excavation going on in the World Heritage Site just south of Normanton Gorse

http://www.sarsen.org/2016/10/secret-ma ... r.html?m=1

On the plus side, this would at least allow thousands more people on the new A303 to unwittingly experience a "nodal moment" as they passed through an exact spot with perfect alignment to the true astro-archaeo meaning of that part of Stonehenge (Jon's meaning excepted)