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The spiral that vanished


Just received the following from Dr Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, Durham University:

Just to let you know about the publication of this article

Díaz-Andreu, M., C. Brooke, M. Rainsbury & N. Rosser (2006) 'The Spiral
that Vanished: The Application of Non-Contact Recording Techniques to an
Elusive Rock Art Motif at Castlerigg Stone Circle in Cumbria', Journal
of Archaeological Science 33: 1580-7.


The article can be downloaded in PDF-fromat from:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/m.diaz-andreu/articles/2006_JAS_spiral_stone.pdf 		rockartuk Posted by rockartuk
13th September 2006ce
Edited 30th September 2008ce

Comments (2)
no carving then. probably yoghurt! (Tom Clare: Prehistoric Monuments of the Lake District: Tempus 2007: p29). Conclusive i think! Posted by mick l dore
28th August 2008ce
Hi Mick,
Welcome to TMA and thanks for the post on "The Spiral that vanished".
It would be good, however, to read the blog post "The Spiral that never vanished" by Paul Brown in May 2008 on BRAB:
http://rockartuk.wordpress.com/2007/05/28/the-spiral-that-never-vanished/
Cheers,
Jan 		rockartuk Posted by rockartuk
31st August 2008ce
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