Re: Theories on 'cup and ring marks' | Forum

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Snap Mar 27, 2008 13:47:03

Replying to fitzcoraldo

I will copy the Orion thing to show peeps it,s found in The Antiquities of the Sheen River Valley by Daniel O'Conner. There's another Bullan at Milleens, where the standing stone at Gortna gappul has an outline similar to the Norther Crown pity we can't put drawings on here. As for the water lines I mentioned Tom Graves in Needles of Stone shows quite a few illustrations of the simalarity between, Creyke deapthing patterns(as used in dowsing) and cup and ring marks(Stone at Old Bewick Northumberland) being a very good example
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tiompan Mar 27, 2008 15:26:59

Replying to fitzcoraldo

fitzcoraldo wrote:

This picture of the Hags Chair features a possible representation of the plough,
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/44244/images/cairn_t.html
however it's also a good illustration of how the evidence can be 'bent' to fit the theory. If you look at the illustration in Fergusson's book (p.215) the lines that join the cups into the shape just don't exist. In other words the picture has been doctored.

Not the for the first time .Another favourite is to omit stuff that doesn't fit in the theory , usually astro or calendrical e.g. drawings of kerb stone K15 from Knowth often has features missing .

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FourWinds Mar 28, 2008 06:27:49

Replying to fitzcoraldo

fitzcoraldo wrote:

This picture of the Hags Chair features a possible representation of the plough,
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/44244/images/cairn_t.html
however it's also a good illustration of how the evidence can be 'bent' to fit the theory. If you look at the illustration in Fergusson's book (p.215) the lines that join the cups into the shape just don't exist. In other words the picture has been doctored.

You mean the lines don't exist today -

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/53826/images/cairn_t.html

but then not a lot does on that stone.