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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
|  Subject: Re: Silbury diary  Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:08 am | |
| | I hated music lessons at school until i discovered the pianoforte, i asked my music teacher if she knew where i could learn this from someone with experience and got detention. needless to say i cant play anything now. ! |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:16 am | |
| dontcha just hate teachers that mess up your education?
I had a woodworking teacher who smacked me with a plank.
Now I can't touch wood without it splitting!
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:38 am | |
| | Kamikaze, pianoforte blah blah blah. |
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| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:52 am | |
| | june wrote: | Ok Pete, I admit I am definitely at the back of the class on this one. Have also been reading the 'Avenue Query' topic and didn't quite get it (surprise), so I went back to basics and read up on the Major Lunar Standstill of 2006/7, specifically in relation to Callanish. I found this site which was reasonably easy to follow http://www.astrocal.co.uk/lunarstandstills.html and also had a look at Gerald Ponting's Moonrise Blog. Plus lots of interesting info on Megalithic Sundials (but I think that is a different topic).
I read about the Minor Standstill 2015 (when the moon will rise at its least northerly and set at its least southerly) and I was wondering how this will be seen from Avebury and Stonehenge - hope I'm still around to find out.
Footnote on a completely different topic for tiompan: Re: Messiaen - Prom 70 on 7 Sept; a rare chance to hear Messiaen's opera St Francis of Assisi, with the Netherlands Opera and The Hague Philharmonic. Messiaen's ornithological obsessions make this a twitcher's delight. tiompian you mentioned this composer a while back somewhere else so I will try to catch it as am not as yet familiar with him. |
Thanks for the Messiaen heads up June , I certainly havn't heard it . My fault for being opaque in the query . Here's a hopefully plainer english version .
It looks like that a couple of straight sections of the avenue point to the spots on the horizon where the minor and major lunar standstills will occur . Just as the Stonehenge avenue points to the winter solstice sunset and possibly , as the argument goes , to the lunar minor standstill which only differ by 8 degrees . There is a school of thought , reasonable in my view that the summer solstice sunrise is at least secondary to this and possibly non-existent as the sun rises over the heel stone but there is no indication where to stand to align it and also the slaughter stone would have been erect and in the way . Looks like I have gone all opaque again . Hope that makes some kind of sense .
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june
Joined : 07 Jan 2008
Posts : 471
Location : Wiltshire
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:16 am | |
| | Thanks for that George, a clear and very understandable reply on a fascinating subject. Almost all of the people on this forum have an impressive knowledge, not just of the archaeology of the Avebury complex but also of astronomy. I can only say again, I'm here to learn ...... and sometimes have a laugh. Megadread's unfolding drama of Donna's top was very funny - sounds like a very special little family you got there Megadread. |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:15 pm | |
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as of July 19th it's recovering well,
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shiny
Joined : 17 Jan 2008
Posts : 86
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:08 am | |
| Thanks for the info. Pete.  |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:30 am | |
| It's a pleasure shiny.
I heared some Silbury gossip today that if I posted it on the internet all hell would break loose on other forums,
so I'm gonna shut up now
PeteG
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shiny
Joined : 17 Jan 2008
Posts : 86
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Sun Jul 20, 2008 1:04 am | |
| Publish and be damned!
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington. |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Sun Jul 20, 2008 1:08 am | |
| na! I've been damned before.
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Sun Jul 20, 2008 1:24 am | |
| nice pic of the healing pete.
Last edited by megadread on Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:34 am; edited 2 times in total |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Sun Jul 20, 2008 1:27 am | |
| it won't be long before its all looking hunky dory again
PeteG
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Sun Jul 20, 2008 1:42 am | |
| | Be sure to post a pic when the 'scabs' gone. |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:00 pm | |
| TWAN
I got a Silbury photo on The World At Night website.
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tonyh
Joined : 15 Jan 2008
Posts : 850
Location : Surrey
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:25 pm | |
| | Nice one.. |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:36 pm | |
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Silbury is covered in all sorts of rare flowers at the moments.
Just in time for some chump to stomp all over them.
PeteG |
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Rose
Joined : 18 Jan 2008
Posts : 154
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:39 pm | |
| | PeteG wrote: |
Silbury is covered in all sorts of rare flowers at the moments.
Just in time for some chump to stomp all over them.
PeteG |
but where are the poppies?
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:43 pm | |
| bl00dy hell woman! you want jam as well?
There a few below the tunnel entrance not visible in the photo.
I expect more will pop out by mid august.
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tonyh
Joined : 15 Jan 2008
Posts : 850
Location : Surrey
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:46 pm | |
| | Rose wrote: | | PeteG wrote: |
Silbury is covered in all sorts of rare flowers at the moments.
Just in time for some chump to stomp all over them.
PeteG |
but where are the poppies?
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It would look great with a few poppies..
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Rose
Joined : 18 Jan 2008
Posts : 154
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:01 pm | |
| | PeteG wrote: | bl00dy hell woman! you want jam as well?
There a few below the tunnel entrance not visible in the photo.
I expect more will pop out by mid august.
PeteG |
no jam, jusht more pimms!!!
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june
Joined : 07 Jan 2008
Posts : 471
Location : Wiltshire
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:40 am | |
| Have just been watching a short English Heritage video posted by Moss over on TMA. It shows Jim Leary walking through the Silbury tunnel explaining the archaeology as he goes - fascinating and informative.
Apologies if it has been posted here before and I have missed it - and if you read this Moss thanks for posting it. I haven't copied the link over in case you or PeteG were planning to do so later. All information about the enigmatic Silbury gratefully received.
june |
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tonyh
Joined : 15 Jan 2008
Posts : 850
Location : Surrey
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:31 am | |
| Thanks for posting about moss's link June...
Very interesting. The more I learn, the more obvious it becomes to me that We really have no idea what they were up to..
Wasn't the last walk though, was it Pete..
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shiny
Joined : 17 Jan 2008
Posts : 86
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:21 am | |
| When the site was just a layer of "puddled" clay, which presumably would allow a layer of water to accumulate on top, would this stretch of water act like a mirror? reflecting the night sky?
Just a thought. |
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tonyh
Joined : 15 Jan 2008
Posts : 850
Location : Surrey
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:42 am | |
| | shiny wrote: | When the site was just a layer of "puddled" clay, which presumably would allow a layer of water to accumulate on top, would this stretch of water act like a mirror? reflecting the night sky?
Just a thought. |
Water would collect in the footprints and low spots but the effect would be similar to a broken mirror - the refection would be disjointed and irregular. And thats if there was no wind..
Tony |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Silbury diary Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:14 pm | |
| | june wrote: | Have just been watching a short English Heritage video posted by Moss over on TMA. It shows Jim Leary walking through the Silbury tunnel explaining the archaeology as he goes - fascinating and informative.
Apologies if it has been posted here before and I have missed it - and if you read this Moss thanks for posting it. I haven't copied the link over in case you or PeteG were planning to do so later. All information about the enigmatic Silbury gratefully received.
june |
This is EH TV which has just been launched.
I expected it ages ago as I found a beta version on EH servers some time ago.
The Silbury videos have been available for ages, they just have a pretty frame now.
It certainly wasn't the last walk Tony and he doesn't show anything of the upper collapses.
I have a small video I took on Rose's camera of a walk into the center of the hill with no one else inside.
It's quite an errie feeling.
PeteG |
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