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Re-Erection​…your thoughts please

Jo-anne J
Jo-anne Nov 7, 2005 14:39:56
Replying to Mr Hamhead

Hi Mr Hamhead,

"Thanks to those of you who posted constructive comments"

Sorry if my reply to you seemed like a lot of 'comments'.

I was pulling out a general example of ... whoa hold on a minute before getting to enthousiast on a random excersize.
There are still so much interesting things to investigate. Like many stones have a 2 devide-double?, a strong contrast in the colours light-dark, high-low, reliëf. Also there are indicators to how the stone stands in relationship to the persons viewpoint. So instead of getting easier it becomes more complex, and perhaps my comments didn't express this kind of stuff, I did mean to be constructive.

One has to compare with every little fact finding archaeology, the going to the end and back thing, and that time and again, and it stands at the most crusial point in time, if roads don't take a wider detour, quarries etc then the UK will be left barren.

Take the study material away now and we won't have anything left in the future, withering monuments very much run down on the ladder to the other European countries, the road designed for competative quantity, which will put the UK in a last position (compared to the rest of Europe) in the large companies ratrace.
A small example will be a vast eradicating of local produce/sustainable lifestyle, quality of life standards charts drop down to ... supermarkets. Nothing wrong with a supermarket, it does become a brick in the wall if it's only supermarkets.
It becomes an or or thing, one takes the place of other things.
I wouldn't like to see the UK go the way as Holland has done.
It looses personality, becomes a replacing society.
Another thing with industrialisation it brings forward alot of jobsloss, say in 10 years this emptying out of our landscape goes on, by then the operation should be completed and with a lot of 'pretty' prospects later a vast amount of unskilled labor work will proberly be offered helping skilled people out of a job, muddling the reasonable balance that the UK has up, having to artificialy prop up the worknumbers, as happens over here.
At this moment the UK is WYSIWYG.
If this revamping of the UK sets through the changes will be felt in a move to a society building dept rather than 'poor but dept free' or saving and owning.

J Jo-anne
Jo-anne Nov 7, 2005 14:40:27
Replying to Jo-anne

Part 2 of the post.

Our knowledge on the stones has been gone for thousends of years, reduced to sun-round and thats it, who what when where why, are some of the questions and it takes some time to visualise with the eye and brain to re-adjust to the stones themselfs.
If I did this research on my own it would mean at least 50 years of research as every stone is an individual to make it even less easier. But the answers are there, there is no problem with that.

I know that eradicating the area and the cutting roads slicing our cultural heritage is taking out a key factor to understanding what our ancestors put into so much effort to achieve and pass on. It is most clear that these sites did have a meaning, reasoning, many things going on, including leadership, beliefs, rituals, wisdom, lifestyles. This can be distracted bit by bit and after sometime it feels like one is nearly having a conversation with someone from the past, fragments.

It is a lovely study and interesting is that not a day needs to go by without finding another piece of the puzzle. It can't even be done without a joint effort.
Relentlessly going through masses of material that is out there. (Like when you hit the level of obsession :-)

Another interesting thing is,
One will never be able to understand the stones if one doesn't interact with them, one is challanged to ... the other way round from the connection of the artists painting with the visual receiver (Mona keeps eye contact thing)

There are so many points that should be discussed, archaeology wise, research wise, but also a wider picture and so many problems that need to be addressed like the deep ploughing we all know how devistating it is for the archaeology landscape, like instead of a random doing as is done (my dog used to think like that :-) there should be an exchange of thoughts and sometimes solutions are not that much out of the way, like perhaps if a farmer wants to deepplough on a 'new' field then first a non intrusive survey should be carried out. Not forbidding but solving. (just an example) From one idea comes the next.

If you or your archaeologist wants to exchange some conversation, you're always welcome.

j.

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