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23rd January 2009, 06:29 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by monitor lizard
I too had not heard the plough/adze thing before.
Would it be awful to admit that I thought ?200 was quite a bargain?
ML
Yes.
I have had bits of an ard turn up and the 'spike' for scratching the soil was wood, no trace of any flint. More inaccurate BBC reporting.
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23rd January 2009, 06:35 PM
Starting my new position as a Panel Member of the Treasure Trove in Scotland on Monday .. (I know... kept that quiet) ... my training.... The Antiques Roadshow... I get 80% of the prices right!
What value history??
What'll you give me for a silver penny... !
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23rd January 2009, 06:40 PM
I'll give you a piece of silver if you can sing 'Over the hills and far away'.
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23rd January 2009, 06:42 PM
Congrats and good luck, by the way!
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23rd January 2009, 06:43 PM
There is a punchline there!
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23rd January 2009, 06:48 PM
Its all in the words...and the distance
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24th January 2009, 12:19 AM
[quote]
Originally posted by achingknees
http://www.flintsource.net/
...shows that flint sources in Scandinavia are plentiful!
Beautiful Danish flint axes, daggers and sickles come to mind. The really good flint was mined.
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Of course there is flint in Denmark, but
geologically Denmark is not part of the Scandinavian peninusla. Instead it is part of
Ferro-Scandia which covers a much wider area. Which I imagine Lars Tharp would probably know....
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24th January 2009, 04:27 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by kevin wooldridge
Of course there is flint in Denmark, but geologically Denmark is not part of the Scandinavian peninusla. Instead it is part of Ferro-Scandia which covers a much wider area. Which I imagine Lars Tharp would probably know....
You learn something new every day...I didn't do Geography O-level...
However, I believe European archaeologists often use the generic 'Scandinavian Neolithic flint axe' for those exquisite and typologically distinct axes made in Denmark and Sweden. For example...
http://www.springerlink.com/content/t562342g158j15gw/
Crikey, a quick search shows that there are three levels of being geo-politically 'Scandinavian'...
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24th January 2009, 04:32 PM
Is Ferro-Scandia the same as Fenno-Scandia?
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24th January 2009, 10:20 PM
Fenno-scandia it is.
It is and my head wasn't screwed on yesterday. I also typed 'position' in another message when I meant to say 'possession'.
I remember Oliver Sachs describing this mis-word association in one of his books (the one about the man the wife and the hat). Maybe I am going down with something....
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