Orkney 49
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Orkney

Interesting writing

Resonox R
Resonox Jan 30, 2011 08:26:37
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
Genuine examples of rock art have been popping up in Orkney in the past few years ,almost all due to excavation as the marked rocks in Orkney don't tend to be in the open air.The particular type of markings that are similar to those on the stone tend to be found in some burial contexts and in Skara Brae .
This stone appears to be in a modern kitchen context
tiompan wrote:
It's not standard practice for archaelogists to do plaster casts of such markings these days .
Cheers for answering Tiompan...the original poster it would seem has decided to avoid open airings(sorry.....lol) and questions for whatever reasons...leaving us all the more curious about the stone.
tiompan wrote:
Some saddo might want to buy it , but who would be that daft ?
Equally some saddo might want to forge it and pretend archeos were interested for selling purposes.....I still maintain archeos would be more interested in finding it's place of origin rather than putting a "stookie" on it!
(Tiompan will know that expression...lol)

R Rhiannon
Rhiannon Jan 30, 2011 08:45:54
Replying to Resonox

That's a bit conspiracy theory isn't it? For one thing, I don't think your average tma reader is the sort to go buying bits of rock art? I could be wrong. But I'd have thought most of them would rather see them free-ranging in the wild, on display in a museum, or at least being enjoyed by whoever found them. Besides, what on earth would be the going rate? You wouldn't be able to sell more than one or the game would be up. You might as well peck away at Genuine Replicas and pop them on ebay. Though you'd never make your fortune would you, it's a bit of a specialist market :)

Also, it's blatantly not 'writing', it's rectangles with a zig zag through them, it's a pattern. Or is that part of the ruse, to pretend not to realise?

Perhaps the poster's just out birdwatching and isn't that interested in stones, perhaps he'll be back here in the end?

You could be right of course. But I dunno. No offence meant of course.

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