[Stones] New discovery at Achnabreck

[Merryn Dineley]

Not sure what you mean by 'parallel groove'. Do you mean what I call 
concentric rings?
Merryn

Ric wrote:
> thanks.
> 
> are there any other Cup and Ring designs which
> replicate this 'parallel groove' configuration,
> please?
> 
> bests
> 
> R
> 
> and yes, i think all theories are valid ... and i
> doubt if any one single answer exists, to explain
> megaliths and rock art 
> 
> 
> --- goffik <goffik at gotadsl.co.uk> 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. 
> 
> 
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