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From the Archaeological News today about new discoveries
in Teesside:

The photographs showed the ditch of a rectangular enclosure, typical of those surrounding Iron Age farms and also three crop circles.

I haven't seen the photos, but it sounds as if the three crop circles were part of an iron-age site.....

What do they mean by "crop circles?"

I thought crop circles were modern phenomena created by
art students, extra terrestrials, or Atlanteans.

Doctor X wrote:

stan wrote:art students, extra terrestrials, or Atlanteans.

There is a difference?

--J. "Doug & Dave" D.

Sure!

art students - brains in left field

ETs - brains in outer space

Atlanteans - make believe brains under water

Really cute posts guys. I thought I read somewhere that they found the ruins of a 'roundhouse' in one of the 'crop circles' but I could be thinking of somewhere else. Or even better, hallucinating the whole thing and creating my own memories. Or... never mind, (all this crazy is infectious).

Stan

Did you find the link to the Tees archaeology site?
http://www.teesarchaeology.com/

There are some cute articles in the document library. But there also might be something somewhere about the crop circles.

i am wondering where are the cries that 'this is a scientific board ' being aimed at those interlopers who can't refrain from departing from the topic to post their juvenile antics?

or is that just another hypocritcal double standard that applies only to those of a religious perspective??

archaeologist wrote:i am wondering where are the cries that 'this is a scientific board ' being aimed at those interlopers who can't refrain from departing from the topic to post their juvenile antics?

or is that just another hypocritcal double standard that applies only to those of a religious perspective??

i am an "equal abuse" poster on this board, and i expect the same from all.

egalitarianism has its benefits................


j

Starflower wrote:

Stan

Did you find the link to the Tees archaeology site?
http://www.teesarchaeology.com/

There are some cute articles in the document library. But there also might be something somewhere about the crop circles.

thanks for the link, Star. That's a nice site, but sort of cluttered looking and a lot to read. I was hoping to see the picture including the "crop circles....."
Maybe they are ring ditches...

Glad to see you are hanging in here in spite of the travesties
being perpetrated around us.

Indeed, nice article Starflower.

Presumably by crop circles they mean crop marks - when the underlying soil has been disturbed it leads to different growth rates. This can then be picked up be ariel photogrpahy, especially in dry conditions. A filled in circular ditch would, for example, appear as a 'crop circle' - caused by greener, more luxuriant growth though, as opposed to flattened plants.

Like this:-

Starflower, I did read the "cute" article (thanks)...and, yes, the press should have said crop "marks."

Nice picture, Essan.

A note to marduk, essan, and R'Kow-lo-gist.

I love British Englsh, and I love English place-names.
Teesside, Redcar, Cat's Bells, etc.

When I was over there in the 70's I first noticed that you guys seem willng to put together words and syllables in ways that we would never consider over here. We don't use "tarn" or "fen," for example.

However, we have some "doozies," like Lake Winnepasauka
(Indian) or Chalybeate Springs (an iron-water resort), or
Foggy Bottom....

Cheers! Ta!