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Earthstepper E
Earthstepper Sep 19, 2004 22:17:07
Replying to fitzcoraldo

Waddya mean by tradition? Only prehistoric hill figure is Uffington - does one swallow make a summer - does one horse make a herd?

Other hill figures are 17th - 20th century endeavours so if that is a tradition it is a very modern one. ;-)

I have no preconceptions about the Cambridge doodle, but if we accept ( as I think we must ) that Uffington is genuine Iron Age then it would seem quite incredible if such a sophisticated and accomplished piece of landscape art should be the ONLY one of its kind. If Oxford can do it then so can Cambridge

F fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Sep 19, 2004 23:42:48
Replying to Earthstepper

Four hundred years is a pretty long tradition in our ever changing world. Add Tysoe in the 1600's and Gogmagog in Plymouth in the 1400's to push the tradition back further.
If this is a horse carving, then it's a first on flat land and without precedent in these islands.
You also have to consider what else it could be. It reminds me of the almost annual reports of people seeing the face of christ in a stain on the pavement or the name of allah written on the side of a fish - you see what you want to see.
To me a rational way of looking at things is to use common sense.
It's a mark on a field that vagely resembles a horse - until proved otherwise.

F fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Sep 19, 2004 23:51:39
Replying to Earthstepper

"if such a sophisticated and accomplished piece of landscape art should be the ONLY one of its kind".
Stonehenge, Silbury, Avebury, Callanish, Arbor Low ........and yes Abbeyquarter North ..........the list is endless - all sophisticated & accomplished pieces of landscape art , all one of a kind

S Steve Gray
Steve Gray Sep 20, 2004 07:13:47
Replying to Earthstepper

"If Oxford can do it then so can Cambridge."

They could, of course, be pictures of goats rather than horses. Perhaps they were constructed at exactly the same time in an event known as the "Oxford and Cambridge goat race".

;o)