But even if it is man made there is still the problem about where the event is observed from . With nothing to indicate the observation point and whether the sun is on the horizon , it's just the sun shining through a hole in a rock i.e. the same phenomena can be observed at times of day and days other than the solstice .
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Any other markings apart from the ones highlighted Lee .?
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> HIGH-PRECISION GPS SURVEY OF VIA APPIA:
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Link didn't work on first post Hermione but the address suggested Magli and my heart sank , luckily the Paterson article linked in second post saved a lot of time .
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The usual Stonehenge mention for something that is totally unrelated.
It's a stone with a hole , is it natural ? what are the dimensions ?
There is no mention of the viewing point being marked in any way, or whether the sun was on the horizon when the pic was taken ,even if it was on the horizon , it's pic of the solstice sun seen through a hole in a stone , no basis for cons
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Further commentary here .
Note the associated graphic .
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Having had a look at plans of the site , most of which seem to based on the Brainerd 1958 plan , See , it is clear where the main sacbe begins and some of it it can be followed on GE The start/end point it is very clear .it's at 20.540065 , -88.662555 and has the same width as noted by Villa i.e. 10.30 metrees , it is easy to get a bearing from that .It is just visible as a
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Thanks ,
The track that I had noticed just outside of Yaxunah starts at 20.538862 , -88.626221 , it is heading in the right direction for Coba at a bearing of 91. 6 degrees (approx ).If it had maintained that that bearing it would miss Coba , to the north by about 1.5 Km . The map shows deviations to the south at Kalan so it looks like it might fit the bill .The tree cover is pretty den
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Jammer ,
I wasn't bothered about width , merely if the road is straight in sections , which I would expect , and not straight from A-B .
A lot depends on the height of tree cover ,if present .
I had a look on GE and there is one stretch that would fit from Yaxuna but it gets lost after 5 Km, possibly into tree cover
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Hello IxChel ,
Is the road visible on Google Earth and is it in straight sections rather than a straight line between Coba and Yaxuna ?
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To be capable of doing so requires some knowledge of the subject , not just uninformed knee jerk opinions .That was never going to happen .
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There is a demand for for the fringe / alt stuff , always has been .
I don't believe all the authors are conmen ,many of them believe their fantasies .
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But not in Birmingham where you can't miss it .
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Sorry didn't mean to appear picky , I thought you might have meant Grenada .
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like a matador in a Grenoble bull ring... "
Eh ??
There's a bull ring in Birmingham , England ( no matadors though ), but Grenoble ?
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Don't trust the site ,that's what they want you to do , the probe is the helmet .
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What makes you think it was a "he" .?
If you think that you will find detailed info on a subject like standing stones in a daily newspaper , even a quality one, then the level of your expectation and concomitant understanding is far too low .
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Which has nothing to do with the reasons the editors had for choosing the one they did .
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Clearly not your mind then .Quote "maybe we've got more important things to do than worry about a couple of stones in front of a police station that we'll never visit. "
One enquiring mind gave you the info , not provided in the article , and a starter of fi
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You missed the point .
It was specifically about a post that had a pic that didn't refer to the headline .A post that KK responded to yet didn't pick up on that ,despite getting in such a flap about the stones .
Obviously most images do refer to the headline, we know that , in some cases when they don't a little imagination or explanation is required to understand why , i
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Have a look at the headline , then look at the associated image .
"Man follows hunch, says he's uncovered lost city"
Not that it matters ,but no man , hunch or excavation pics .
Odd you didn't have a problem with a picture of a sunset .
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No common sense says that an article about a rock won't necessarily have an image .
Stick to comics if you images are so important .
As has been explained many times the article headline was " ‘Ancient’ standing stones are linked to 1314 battle " and there were good reasons for showing the image they did and not showing an image of the rocks .
It is an incredibly
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I wasn't defending sloppy reporting .
I was pointing out that the archaeo providing the info for the article had made a very silly interpretation of the facts prior to the most recent excavation , and providing that contrasting detail . I then explained why the article had an image of Robert of the Bruce and not the stones nor the battlefield . Some info about the setting of
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For those actually interested in researching monuments a useful first step is to search the local HER or wider national database , when they are available , e.g. Britain and the Republic of Ireland is covered as are some Scandinavian countries .The info there will lead to other sources and some non purist common sense will lead to others .
Those interested in the stones in the articl
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As ever , when you can't respond meaningfully , which is very common , you resort to personal stuff or adolescent stuff like "I'm bored " , "wiffle affle "etc .The time wasting and throwing the toys out of the pram behaviour is just a ploy to evade the problems lower the level to yours and get threads closed .
You have been supplied with facts ,are incapab
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"Purists ", a new euphemism ? that's the best yet .
Most of us know how to find info , if you are still learning don't waste others time by moaning about it .
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Tell that to KK . She missed it altogether .
Apart from that you were supplied with facts ,not just "SES,NTS". .The kind of stuff you avoid and failed to mention/understand e.g. Why the particular pic was chosen , how the local culture impacts on that choice , why the stones were unlikely candidates , their setting ,the original nonsensical interpretation from the archaeo .
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You were supplied with the facts days ago , explaining why the pic was chosen , the physical setting of the stones ,why they are not particularly photogenic , the cultural background to the choice of image , and more to the point, how the new evidence supplied by the local archaeo confirmed the nonsense of his earlier comments , which were carefully never mentioned .
The response from yo
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