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Pilgrim wrote:
Hmm.. bits of broken antler and such left in a disparate manner? I thinketh not. Sorry.
I thinketh that the deposition of artefacts (some deliberately broken prior to the act) at prehistoric monuments has been established as fact by archaeologists. But hell - what do they know!

Sorry.

Antlers were indeed laid down and left as offerings. In fact some of the Stonehenge ones were hundreds of years old, antiques in prehistory, when they were finally laid to rest.

But there was a reason for them to do that, whatever it may have been. There is no real reason for a time capsule inside the hill. Nothing can justify such a daft decision except for some idiot in a suit coming up with an idea that appealed to other idiots in suits.

"Oh Tarquin, another vote-winner in the marginals!!"

Robert Carr wrote:
Pilgrim wrote:
Hmm.. bits of broken antler and such left in a disparate manner? I thinketh not. Sorry.
I thinketh that the deposition of artefacts (some deliberately broken prior to the act) at prehistoric monuments has been established as fact by archaeologists. But hell - what do they know!

Sorry.

Hi, Robert Carr,

Please; don't patronise me. I am aware of the deliberate placement of artifacts, but I cannot see that the remains of a pick head - an artefact which has been found countless times in many different excavations - can be seen as a deliberate placement.

Peace

Pilgrim

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