tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post8973411725063342193..comments2024-03-11T15:40:37.015+00:00Comments on Theoretical Structural Archaeology: 38. Bronze Age Architecture: WoodhengeGeoff Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-76837098004867621612012-12-01T08:53:53.043+00:002012-12-01T08:53:53.043+00:00Thank you for your comment; - 'New' archae...Thank you for your comment; - 'New' archaeology is made up / fabricated - it is an intelectual conciet.<br />You will remember that so much of what we found we did not understand, so universities payed people to be expert on what we don't find; if there is no evidence, then you can't be wrong!<br />New archaeology / postprocessualism is simply 'projcetion' - puting the thoughts in your own head into the minds of the long dead. As such, it is a second rate cult, a fraud - paid for by the tax payer.<br /><br />If you pay people public money to make up things- they gladly do it, and, as I know to my cost, fight tooth and nail to preserve their right to do so.<br />So, it's not you, you were taught to think, moidern students are taught to believe.Geoff Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-82867531089810287912012-12-01T00:58:18.373+00:002012-12-01T00:58:18.373+00:00I am a former student of Stuart Piggot at Edinburg...I am a former student of Stuart Piggot at Edinburgh in the 1960s I like your blog.Graduated 1965. I do not understand post processual archaeology I'm glad to say and though female I'm not a feminist. I cannot imagine how you can find out from postholes and pottery fragments what was the position of women in the structure of a tribe so I find I cannot understand modern books on archaeology and history. I hope i'll be able to keep up with your blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-83847650405974358782011-10-10T20:26:52.458+01:002011-10-10T20:26:52.458+01:00Hi Tony,
Thanks for that, I had to draw it out to ...Hi Tony,<br />Thanks for that, I had to draw it out to be sure I got it!<br />I see it is a perfect little Rhombus with 120 ° /60 ° angles. <br />Strangely, it looks like an off cut from the bands on the ‘mace’ shaft.<br /><br />It rather weakens my case that the Rhombus was a heraldic device; 3 lozenges with 3 different geometries. <br />It seems likely that in this period, insignia would be most often be reproduced in fabric, and perhaps wood and pottery, and would not often be defined in metal, so its precise its form may not have been strictly defined. Alternately, each different geometry was symbolically significant, as in heraldry when small changes of detail are indicative, or the forms are entirely decorative.Geoff Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-59792320977942572062011-10-10T16:18:11.175+01:002011-10-10T16:18:11.175+01:00Most appreciated Geoff. Regarding the smaller of t...Most appreciated Geoff. Regarding the smaller of the two lozenges from Bush Barrow, and with reference to the forms having been based on a hexagon here’s how the smaller one was achieved (you already have the master shape of the larger).<br />Construct the hexagon – usual method – draw horizontal line (this will be the longer axis of the lozenge), set the compass so as to scribe a circle of slightly less diameter than the line’s width. Following the usual convention use the compass to strike the vertices of the hexagon starting on one of the intersects with the horizontal line. Now take a line from each the top two vertices of the hexagon to meet the vertices which intersect the horizontal (joining i.e. top left to horizontal right, top right to horizontal left), repeat using the bottom two vertices. The Lozenge shape contained within the four lines is the exact form of the smaller Lozenge. So although both the large ands small lozenge uses a hexagon in their construction the hexagon is used in two quite different ways. From memory the smaller of the lozenges is almost exactly 1/50th the area of the larger, though I have no idea if there is any significance in that fact. <br /><br />Regards,<br />Tony JohnsonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-87971601200203689412011-10-09T15:56:46.771+01:002011-10-09T15:56:46.771+01:00Hi Tony
Please accept my apologies if I overlooke...Hi Tony<br /><br />Please accept my apologies if I overlooked your important contribution and failed to reference your work. Thank you for taking the time to draw my attention to this, I am always more than happy to have my all to frequent mistakes and omissions pointed out, enabling me to rectify them.<br /><br />One of the disadvantages of being outside the university system is it makes thorough research very difficult, and in my current circumstances, I cannot afford to buy access to academic or any other literature that I would be required to reference if this was proper ‘academic’ work. I have to try and make the best of what this new type of publication has to offer, unlimited colour pictures, multilingual support, free 24 hour a day, and I can correct my mistakes.<br /><br />I had always assumed the small lozenge was a miniature version of the big one; it is such a shame we have so little of this material, although I think the jet lozenge adds something to our understanding of this form.<br />GeoffGeoff Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-42420944239851622552011-10-09T14:25:05.666+01:002011-10-09T14:25:05.666+01:00Hi Geoff,
I would appreciate it if your sources i...Hi Geoff,<br /><br />I would appreciate it if your sources included reference to my work. The Wiki page for Bush Barrows has reference to ‘Solving Stonehenge’ where it states ‘The design of the artifact known as the Bush Barrow Lozenge has been shown to be based on a hexagon construction’ This research, the Wiki drawings, and the fact that the Clandon Barrow Lozenge was ‘based on an octagon, not a hexagon’ is also a fact established by my original work (and also published in ‘Solving Stonehenge’ in 2008). You may be interested to know that the smaller Bush barrow Lozenge is also a hexagon based design (Solving Stonehenge p.269).<br /><br />Regards,<br />Tony JohnsonAnthony Johnsonhttp://www.solvingstonehenge.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-7010478028285735852010-09-24T19:36:52.080+01:002010-09-24T19:36:52.080+01:00Hi Anon, thanks for the comment.
Lozenges are a co...Hi Anon, thanks for the comment.<br />Lozenges are a common motif, and I am not sure that there is any evidence that they were used exclusively as a sun symbol.<br /><br />The idea that nomadic pastoralism is a practical way of life in Southern England is also unproven, due to the problem of over-wintering stock in our climate.<br /><br />There is abundant evidence for buildings, even if the architectural and structural principles are not well understood.<br />My structural analysis of the evidence indicates that Woodhenge was a roofed structure; whether people in this period are perceived to have wanted or needed a building, is not a real issue.Geoff Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-70996406667699225852010-09-24T18:51:49.267+01:002010-09-24T18:51:49.267+01:00With all respect the lozenge / rhombus was a solar...With all respect the lozenge / rhombus was a solar symbol in the European late Neolithic & ealy Bronze Age. With regard to dwellings many of these people followed a pastoral existence so were likely to be semi-nomadic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-15367017384645181292010-03-14T14:03:39.353+00:002010-03-14T14:03:39.353+00:00Thank you so much for your kind sentiment.
If you...Thank you so much for your kind sentiment.<br /><br />If you are interested in the impact of Roman culture may I suggest you look at my article;<br /><br />http://structuralarchaeology.blogspot.com/2009/03/24-systematic-irregularity-why-almost.html<br /><br />I think it has some interesting implications for the arrival of classical religious architecture.Geoff Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-22798124961634888892010-03-13T23:09:56.188+00:002010-03-13T23:09:56.188+00:00I'd dearly love to be able to fund or employ y...I'd dearly love to be able to fund or employ you, Geoff! I know what it's like.<br /><br />I'm trying to get my brain 'round the cultural consequences of the Roman invasion of Britain at the moment.<br /><br />I'd understood that British shrines were made from timber until the arrival of the Romans, and became 'temples' when squared stone walls were built and the indigenous gods got new, Roman surnames.<br /><br />It's a fascinating idea that structural archeology can shed light on a symbolic culture that passed leaving so little.Neillienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-80668815313492187712010-03-02T10:11:42.393+00:002010-03-02T10:11:42.393+00:00Hi Ned,
Thanks for the comment, and reading it bef...Hi Ned,<br />Thanks for the comment, and reading it before Martha had edited it!<br />[I am having a nightmare with formatting in Google Blogger, which is being random about font type & sizes].<br /><br />I will post part two when it's finished, but it is quite a complex issue, and will require some time to get the drawings right.Geoff Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-7183912044716872462010-03-01T20:43:50.123+00:002010-03-01T20:43:50.123+00:00Dear Geoff
No particular comments so far as I loo...Dear Geoff<br /><br />No particular comments so far as I look forward to seeing where you're going. However, I'm glad you commented on the importance of the area as some sort of link between Irish metal sources and Europe.<br /><br />Ned<br /><br />PS thanks for the link. When I work out how to do that I shall undoubtedly return the favour.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06932280745074059594noreply@blogger.com