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Littlestone Oct 10, 2009 13:36:03
Replying to lilydee05

lilydee05 wrote:
Glad that someone has opened a positive thread for this fantastic news.

I feel a little worried on how to contribute to this thread in fear of "taking anyone's glory" or upsetting anyone, do you think it appropriate etiquette to wait until after MPP has done his talk before I contribute the limited knowledge I have of my parts of the dig to this thread?

Regards

Lilydee. x

What you decide to do with your information Lilydee is, of course, up to you. Personally, I've never been very happy when people say, "Look this is just between you and me." or, "Look, I'm telling you this in the strictest confidence." as it places a gagging order on those 'under the rose' and a block on its wider dissemination (when often a wider dissemination of information might, actually, be for the greater good). I'll go along with confidences of a personal nature but anything much outside that has the smell of 'information control' to me. This is Britain of the 21st century and not, even with all its present control freakery shortcomings, Communist China, North Korea or some patriarchal Arab state where control of the media is used to suppress or manipulate the flow of knowledge, information, free-speech and, in the end, the advancement of society as a whole.

So... I now tend to respond to any sub rosa whisper in my ear with a, "Sorry, I can't take onboard your restrictions so you can either tell me what you know (with the understanding that I'll make my own decisions whether or not to share that information with others) or you may prefer not to tell me at all." That tends to clear the air and allows for a more honest sharing of information between friends and groups. Personally, I believe the non-sharing of information is likely to foster mistrust, resentment and the eventual collapse of friendships, groups and even of societies. The situation is probably made even worse when something that was once known to one or two members of a group is then disclosed later to the whole group with a, "Sorry, but it was told to me in confidence." escape clause.

Sorry Goff, your thread is about discussing (openly and freely I hope) the Bluehenge discovery and so I'll say no more (at least not here :-) on the politics of that discovery. Hope MPP's talk goes well today Lilydee, and I'm sure I'm not alone in hoping you'll have something to say about it here.

L lilydee05
lilydee05 Oct 14, 2009 21:46:55
Replying to Littlestone

After a long and hard trail of thought, have decided to post my personal account of the dig. As a good friend said, history belongs to us all. On a seperate note, the MPP talk was very good- a lot of theories and lots of "we'll have to wait for carbon dating" until conclusions can be made. Did anyone else manage to get to it? If so, would be interesting to know what you think.

The dig - a personal account...

Firstly the site is a magnificent place - so beautiful and it's really not suprising why something was built there! Truely awe inspiring location.

A group of us were assigned to dig various test pits at the site before the student Archs came to the site the following week. I was lucky enough to be assigned to a TP (1m x 1m) inside the henge where actually we found less worked flint inside than we did outside in the other TPs I was lucky enough to be assigned to. A lot of hard graft de-turfing and sieving in glorious weather. The second TP I was in, which was north of the henge pulled up a figure in excess of 150 pieces of worked flint, some dating to mesolithic - again a 1mx1m TP around 3 footish deep. MPP was pleased with this result and said that these relative numbers could only be compared with the Durrington Walls flint numbers - interesting train of thought if you ask me. I also found a rather lovely meso blade which I was chuffed to bits with as you can imagine!

When we first arrived, MPP thought there may have been a neo long barrow in the field but further investigations proved it wasn't to be.

There was a lot of medieval activity on the site and towards the end of the dig, a lot of the inexperienced were placed in these trenches whilst the experienced were blessed with the post holes and the henge (to be expected!), although they were very keen to keep us in the loop by doing tours of the suspected human bone that was found and other interesting soil colours.

MPP and his colleagues were very very nice, especially Jim who was magnificent with explainations of flint and other things.

At the last point I was at the dig, we had found a small piece of bluestone, the sort of size that can fit in your hand.

During the MPP talk on saturday, he drew a lot of comparisions with Coneybury Henge (which isnt that far away I believe?) and other henges in the welsh area. He also said that one of the stone impressions on the dig, looks very similar to a standing stone at Stonehenge and he thought the stones may have been recycled up there. He also spent a lot of time discussion Marden Henge during "question time".

Obviously everything above is what I knew at the time of the dig when I was present and as we all know, thoughts and theories change!

So, there we have it, my brief personal account, with no comprimising information and I can only hope informative to everyone reading and whetting the appetite for MPPs full report which I believe is coming out next year, I think!

Lilydee05 x

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