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Rowtor Rocks, it's all fake

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megadread Dec 16, 2009 01:53:08

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A "new" example of the Stanage barrow cup marked stone.
With a bit of work i could undoubtedly make it look older than it actually is.
I did it to try to get a better insight into rock art, learnt me quite a bit actually.

http://i45.tinypic.com/29diq9v.jpg

baza Dec 16, 2009 03:58:25

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I've had my say and I'm leaving this conversation now.

megadread wrote:

Well i guess we'll never know for certain will we unless someone comes up with a new technique to verify the antiquity of them...

The same can be said about any piece of RA. What it boils down to is: you have faith in your own (and others) judgement or you don't.

Thanks, Hob, for having a go at trying to speak with some commonsense about the recognised RA at Rowtor. By "recognised" I'm not including any "serpents" or groups of very small depressions in rocks.

If I wanted to fake some RA to impress my guests than I'd go about it very differently to what we see at Birchover.

Hob Dec 16, 2009 21:44:00

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Nice one :)

I agree that having a shot at DIY rock art is a good way to gain a bit of insight into the things. But as ever, I found it raised as many questions as it helped answer. It did definitely help rule out a few things that had been posited as artificial, at least in my mind.

And I agree that it would be very easy to make some fairly convincing replicas. No trouble at all really. I've a couple that have been gathering lichen in my yard for a few years now. I've got pics somewhere, I'll dig them out.