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gjrk wrote:
Speaking of bb's...

There's an interesting article in this quarter's Archaeology Ireland about what may be two 'bog feet'. Found, believe it or not, in an attic while doing up a house late last year.

An adult foot dated to AD 52 - AD 230 and a child's foot at 60 BC - 52 AD (both calibrated, two sigma variation). National Museum is investigating. Bizarre.

Yeah, bizarre.

A few bits of Irish folklore have footless creatures, but not bodiless feet...

Branwen wrote:
gjrk wrote:
Speaking of bb's...

There's an interesting article in this quarter's Archaeology Ireland about what may be two 'bog feet'. Found, believe it or not, in an attic while doing up a house late last year.

An adult foot dated to AD 52 - AD 230 and a child's foot at 60 BC - 52 AD (both calibrated, two sigma variation). National Museum is investigating. Bizarre.

Yeah, bizarre.

A few bits of Irish folklore have footless creatures, but not bodiless feet...

Lots of feet in rock art but certainly not on the Forteviot cist cover .

Ah. The Irish Times has an emerging theory; a professional who may have gathered some parts...

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0914/1224254476530.html

;)