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EdZiomek wrote:
Thank you kindly for your responses. I just added two images in the Silbury Image section, for review and acceptance if possible. Also note, the photo color-manipulation is showing artwork everywhere in these areas, and the fact that corn fields are on top seem to preserve the images, not destroy them.

The latent images seem to happen because of what I am calling "wet shadows", wherein normal undisturbed soil projects varying forms of darkness, depending on its water content.

Under photo color-manipulation, stone walls, or stone outlined artwork, converging trails/roads, up to 24 inches under soil, project a lighter image, because of the lesser concentration of water content. All over England, in everyone's backyard, I am seeing wonderful objects sub soil, not knowing if they are last weekend's rugby barbeque, or 10,000 year old antiquities.

And this process works similar over water, on statues, stone pillars, though not as precise.

Thank you for putting your photos on, but two things spring to mind, why 'kings' simulcra in a stoneage context? and in a small country such as Britain, when every inch of it has been lived on/farmed from prehistory to now should we understand the shapes of the landscape from such different eras as iron age, romans, medieval be expected to form anything coherent as a pattern? or am I reading it wrong.... it strikes me that it is similar to Mrs.Maltwood and her Glastonbury zodiac...
http://www.isleofavalon.co.uk/avalon-zodiac2.html.
Its a fascinating subject though.. Poor old Silbury has been knocked around quite a bit in the past ;)
Moss

Most valid questions, and let me add a clue. What is a "stone age context" to the artwork uncovered, when I can construct a picture of Tony Blair on the side, right now, if no one stops me? Yours is the most pertinent of questions, but the simple answer to me is graffitti or high art can be added at any time after its initial construction. By the way, the orientation of the easterly King can possibly be dated by his posture. Kings were oriented usually due East or due West during their era of life/death. Since due East/West changes over the millenia, a sharp eyed individual can measure the offset from today's due East/West, I believe, to guesstimate a time frame. Also, the hair style of the "Queen", showing the Ram's horn, the time of Aries/Ram. And the crown of the King, almost a Fez, could identify the culture, possibly. Your question is eminently valid.

The Glastonbury zodiac, that was exactly what I was going to say but you beat me by a hair's breadth!
I think we're hard wired to see patterns and shapes in things, to make sense of things (to see the beast of prey before it leaps out of the bushes and eats us). You can't beat a bit of 'computer enhancement' to sharpen up the contrast and then your mind is tempted to see even more. That's the cynic's view of course. Maybe sometimes the things are really there. There's no denying aerial photos have been instrumental in spotting lots of hitherto unknown archaeological sites, haven't they. I'm not holding my breath until they get to mars and check out the Face though. So I don't mean to dismiss out of hand what you've spent time investigating, but I am inclined to think the simulacra thing is more likely, considering there aren't any other examples of human figures carved large on the landscape in this country (Apart from at Cerne and Wilmington).