[Stones] New discovery at Achnabreck

[Merryn Dineley]

Indeed, a comet entering the atmosphere would have had a spectacular 
effect, visible from far and wide. Quite different from a comet just 
flying by in space, which many of us have seen in recent years. See

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/100101.stm

for a good summary of these ideas about catastrophic comet strikes. It 
does go some way to explaining the climate change that seems to have 
happened at "the end of the Neolithic/Early Bronze Age".

It does not explain all rock art designs though .... so the magic and 
mystery can remain.

Merryn


goffik wrote:
> Yeah!  Weird indeed!  But that's what I particularly like about
> rockart...
> 
> Merryn wrote:
> "Exciting stuff indeed! But what does it all mean? I wonder if some of
> it 
> might have to do with depicting something seen in the sky. Like a sky 
> burst (concentric rings) that might occur when a comet enters the 
> earth's atmosphere. Mike Baillie writes about comets at several times in
> 
> the past (From Exodus to Arthur) and there appears to have been a major 
> event c2345BC.
> 
> Has anyone else read Mike's work? Any ideas on this?"
> 
> I've not read any of Mike's works, but am a little sceptical about the
> description of the sky burst...
> 
> For one thing - how common are these and have any visible ones ever been
> reported?  And another thing - there are so many cup and ring/concentric
> ring markings in Britain alone, that if this were the case, the sky
> would have been full of them at one time!  ;)
> 
> I've seen a few (but not many, admittedly) comets, and have never seen
> anything I would relate to rockart.
> 
> But again - the beauty of this stuff is that we really don't know what
> it means!  So one theory is as valid as the next.  :)
> 
> G x
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:stones-bounces at stoneslist.org.uk] On Behalf Of Ric
> Sent: 23 February 2008 21:19
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> Subject: RE: [Stones] New discovery at Achnabreck
> 
> nice :) it's odd - looks like a 'cup and ring' design,
> but those deep, parallel grooves running across it ...
> and those 'dice dots' - ?
> 
> weird?
> 
> R 
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