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Silbury Hill

Just coincidence?

nigelswift N
nigelswift Sep 29, 2004 16:56:42
Replying to VenerableBottyBurp

""As I understand it, Silbury is built on a spur of chalk sticking out in the fertile flood plain" You were paying close attention weren't you !"

Nah, I've known that for ages, in fact I imbibed it with my mother's milk. Together with the fact that bleedin' dead flying bleedin' ants don't rot in the turf so don't indicate a time of year when the turf was cut. ;)

F FourWinds
FourWinds Sep 29, 2004 17:09:14
Replying to nigelswift

If they did rot then they wouldn't be there to use as an indicator at all would they :-)

I think the thing with them (if it's anything at all) is that there was a lot of them.

We all aagree that the flying ants do their thang in August, yes? If the turf was cut the following May, for instance, then a lot of the dead flying ants would have been eaten, so there wouldn't be many around, would there?

If the above assumption is correct then if there's loads of flying ants in the turf then it is a fairly safe bet that it wasn't cut too long after August, isn't it?

V VenerableBottyBurp
VenerableBottyBurp Sep 29, 2004 17:13:59
Replying to nigelswift

You have just caused massive rib pains and I also can't see for crying with laughter so I am contacting the Health and safety wotsit..

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