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You say "My job is not to prove" but really that's how things work in the scientific world of moving knowledge along, isn't it, if you want people to take your idea seriously? If you've made a claim, you have to stack up the evidence for it. Then other people can weigh that against the evidence against it. Also it would be more convincing if you can show the figures aren't just an artefact of using image enhancing software in a particular way - I mean have you tried doing exactly the same thing at a decidedly non-prehistoric spot (like on the pitch at Manchester United or something). If you can find figures in the grass there, there might be something wrong with your method.
I don't think that's unfair is it?

Oi Ed! You've posted an image with caption wording that seems to imply I'm a believer in the Silbury Crone. This is not entirely accurate and it might be better if you substituted a link to the image and a brief explanation that English Heritage may believe in it but nigelswift doesn't. It's their photograph,after all!

;)

Fair or unfair is not what I am here for. Proof or no proof is certainly what I am not here about. Coordinated patterns that show up on my screen that make a design or shape, yes, that is what I am presenting.

The remnants of last week's football barbeque, or 10,000 year old antiquity, I can't prove anything. "Horns of Ammon" plausibility, in the hairstyle of a face that shows eye and nose and mouth features, I lean towards antiquity.

I put the image on the table, my observation as a tourist, let the self- proclaimed experts have a go at it.

You see it, or you don't see it. Some people want fingerprints, DNA samples, peer level review, or it doesn't exist.

History as we know it, is only "approved history", almost having a religious, political, and territorial ferver to it.
I say certain individuals lock themselves too tightly into an "approved version" of history and academia to admit, "Hey, there are several other things going on, that I never saw before, and that I never knew about before."

What I find extremely amusing, hilarious, is self-proclaimed experts, who get very territorial over an event, or a place, or a set of stones, who protect what they themselves know, as if their version is the full and complete story.

And the philosophy is striking to me... "If absolutely no human being on this earth knows 10% of what is going on, what gives any human being the right to claim another person is wrong, or another person is right?"

I am only a tourist putting theories, observations on the table.

And it can enrage people.