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scubi63 May 26, 2009 23:59:04
Replying to Rhiannon

Rhiannon wrote:
I'm not sure you could do it with anything but metal though could you. So that suggests Not Prehistoric... and so, some kind of implication for whatever the stones Mr Soskin was looking at.
I don't know if any evidence has been found using other softer metals as Lewis 'irons' or even pieces of other shaped stone but I can not see why not.

I too watch the programme and remembered using a similar method when making a type of mortise and tenon joint in wood at school. In this case a wedge is used to splay the tenon apart as it is pushed into the mortise giving a very tight joint that did not require pining or glueing.
This then made me wonder if this method could have been used fix together the many wooden structures instead of wooden pins or rope.....just a thought :o)

R Rhiannon
Rhiannon May 29, 2009 12:06:35
Replying to scubi63

Mortise and tenon joins are very strong aren't they? That's a good connection. It's so annoying that so much about the past is gone to dust - it's like trying to reconstruct my internet surfing from a squashed computer chip 4000 years hence. So little remains of everyday things like houses and clothes and bags and dinners and so on.

Look, surely someone remembers which stones were in the dvd. It did occur to me that sometimes holes like that are natural (stones are pretty holey in these parts) but close up you'd think you'd tell the difference.

As usual I'm waffling about things I haven't seen (hmm sounds horribly familiar) but the way Mr Soskin was talking it sounded like he was familiar with these sorts of holes from stones all over the place?