4th June 2010, 10:35 AM
Ah indeed... this is the very conundrum that besets us...
[ATTACH=CONFIG]583[/ATTACH]Yesterday evening I went for a walk in the lammermuirs.. and visited this Lilliputian stone circle..
Yadlee (NGR NT 6540 6732)
http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/574...ls/yadlee/
The original report from 1913 is this
in 1979 the OS visit... and rock the world with this new evidence..
However... when the Windfarm is proposed ... this evidence is used... and indeed enhanced slightly (what evidence I cry)
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Now I don't point at anyone in particular... but this accumulation of non evidence becomes stronger through time.
All we actually know is that stones are there... and they are 'possibly' placed there in possibly a structured way (though there is of course no evidence to confirm this... this is assumption)
Fact... stones.
The rest.... is made up!
Gawd love us... perhaps the world needs us for the stories we tell.
Archaeology is about evidence and evidence always requires interpretation.... it is how that interpretation is presents... as fact? or as interpretation.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]583[/ATTACH]Yesterday evening I went for a walk in the lammermuirs.. and visited this Lilliputian stone circle..
Yadlee (NGR NT 6540 6732)
http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/574...ls/yadlee/
The original report from 1913 is this
Quote:A small stone circle 27ft in diameter and comprising seven small stones, all but one still earthfast.....and numerous stones are met with on probing. It has not been excavated.by 1966 me get this
Quote:A small stone circle, as described above, located at NT 6540 6732. Purpose uncertain.well at least they are bold enough to say... purpose uncertain...
in 1979 the OS visit... and rock the world with this new evidence..
Quote:Its condition is unchanged.How exactly do they know that it is not part of a larger complex... surely this is interpretation without supporting evidence... otherwise known as saying the first thing that comes into your mind.
On plan, the stones describe an oval measuring overall 9.0m E-W by 8.0m N-S. The significance of four earthfast stones outside the northern arc and a random group of five others about 10.0m west of the circle is uncertain, but they do not appear to have formed part of a larger or more complex monument.
However... when the Windfarm is proposed ... this evidence is used... and indeed enhanced slightly (what evidence I cry)
Quote:but they do not appear to have formed part of a larger or more extensive monumentand when it comes to visual impact... it is indirect.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]584[/ATTACH]
Now I don't point at anyone in particular... but this accumulation of non evidence becomes stronger through time.
All we actually know is that stones are there... and they are 'possibly' placed there in possibly a structured way (though there is of course no evidence to confirm this... this is assumption)
Fact... stones.
The rest.... is made up!
Gawd love us... perhaps the world needs us for the stories we tell.
Archaeology is about evidence and evidence always requires interpretation.... it is how that interpretation is presents... as fact? or as interpretation.