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Rhiannon R
Rhiannon Oct 3, 2009 18:32:43
Replying to StoneGloves

I didn't realise stone circles were so exciting you could make money out of leaking stories about them. I didn't realise they were in the Jordan and Peter category of news. I'm quite impressed.

Stonegloves, you should be pleased you have them all to yourself. You never want to go to Stonehenge, it's a bloody nightmare. Relish you own personal stone circles and be glad.

S StoneGloves
StoneGloves Oct 3, 2009 18:49:25
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Oh, I've seen Stonehenge twice, under extreme circumstances. Once we pitched a tent and slept somewhere that would bring the helicopters out now. Other time was at the '81 Free Festival, The Ruts and Hawkwind and the Tibetan-Ukraine Travelling Circus. I doubt it could be better than that.

My principal long barrow in Bolton - with its site surrounded on three sides by houses and the third by a dual carriageway also upsets the academics. The long barrow has lost its excavation trenches but none of its height. The horned forecourt is entirely undamaged and their is a pristine round barrow about fifty yards from it. (Perhaps that was ditched. Julian Thomas and Colin Richards have offices ten miles away and can't be bothered, neither can Mike Parker-Pearson about forty miles distant. I'm happy just leaking that information!

M moss
moss Oct 3, 2009 19:33:29
Replying to Rhiannon

Rhiannon wrote:
I didn't realise stone circles were so exciting you could make money out of leaking stories about them. I didn't realise they were in the Jordan and Peter category of news. I'm quite impressed.

Stonegloves, you should be pleased you have them all to yourself. You never want to go to Stonehenge, it's a bloody nightmare. Relish you own personal stone circles and be glad.

Come on Rhiannon show some excitement;) apart from the fact that news only lasts a day and is quickly forgotten, think of the fun and games to be had from speculating on the new stone circle, Enigmatic Bluestones had a previous life!
It was reprehensible of the 'leaker' to break the news but it does seem that when a 'new' 'exciting' find is found we are normally told all about it by the archaeologists fairly quickly, and there must have been lots of people excavating it, were they all sworn to secrecy?
Actually the best bit of news last week is the fact there are 'celtic' mammals to be found on the western extremes of Britain, different DNA, driven out by those interlopers from the continent....