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Hatty
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Goring on Thames is where the Ridgeway crosses the Thames so hardly a new or surprising place for Michell to nominate.

Llantwit Manor isn't a place. Perhaps he meant Llantwit Major, a town in south Wales, across the the Bristol Channel from Minehead?
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Hatty wrote:
Llantwit Manor isn't a place. Perhaps he meant Llantwit Major


Mitchell talks about Llantwit Major so someone has mistyped his work.....now due to cut and paste, the error will forever be Mitchell's....

I have the same problem in reverse, my work gets improved.

Thanks Ed.
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More about Rock Music, or Archeo Acoustics, to give it its proper title:

"One of the most exciting branches of the new multi-sensory archaeology is archaeoacoustics, the archaeology of sound. Imagine being part of a ritual gathering, standing shivering on a frozen lake to hear the spirits of your ancestors communicating with you from within a cliff face. Think what it would feel like to be deep underground in a cave, listening to the reverberations of a human voice by the flickering light of a flame. The idea that our forebears had a far more intimate relationship with sound than most people do now inspires many students of archaeoacoustics. Some study auditory illusions created by the likes of echoes and acoustic interference. Others are interested in the psychology of sound and how it might influence behaviour. Still others investigate how certain wavelengths affect our physiology by changing the way our brains work. Science, it seems, is finally catching up with what shamans have always known about the consciousness-altering power of sound."

http://www.otsf.org/archaeoacoustics.html
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In the world of alternative music ancient frequencies are pretty big at the moment.

For a start there's the 432hz conspiracy theories that are out there. (Sorry to inflict this video on people - it's a bit wacky (even for me), but it's the only one out there that gets the basic gist across).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e9-P_zbjbY

Solfeggio frequencies are also pretty big.

http://attunedvibrations.com/solfeggio/

And for anyone looking for a legal high, they might wanna try Binaural Beats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qeFClTZwNc

Binaural beats were originally discovered in 1839 by physicist Heinrich Wilhelm Dove. He discovered when signals of two different frequencies are presented separately, one to each ear, your brain detects the phase variation between the frequencies and tries to reconcile that difference.

In doing so, as the two frequencies mesh in and out of phase, your brain creates its own third signal -- called a binaural beat -- which is equal to the difference between those two frequencies.

For example, if a frequency of 100 Hz is presented to your left ear, and a frequency of 105 Hz is presented to your right ear, your brain 'hears' a third frequency pulsing at 5 Hz, the exact difference between the two frequencies.

Research has proven that introducing a binaural beat will cause the brain to begin resonating in tune with that beat. By creating a binaural beat at 10 Hz -- an Alpha frequency -- you can trigger your brain to resonate at that same 10 Hz frequency, automatically inducing brain activity in the Alpha range.
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In his talk, Paul Devereux rather rained on the Megaherz Conspiracy parade. I can't remember if he specified the 432 one but his general point was that investigators rather fiddled the acoustic findings at the megalithic sites and then wishful thinking took over. But he didn't rule anything out.
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Fiddling the results to suit the theory?
Scientists Behaving Badly?
I'm shocked! ;-)
You'll be telling me next it wasn't Einstein that came up with E=MC^2 (hint)
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Mick Harper
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Yes, but in this case it is majorly to Devereux's advantage that the conspiracy theories are valid (he is kinda the world authority in this general area after all) so his scepticism carries a lot of wieght.
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One for the Rock Music diary?

Dragon Sounds, Psychoacoustics and ancient instruments - David Finch
Meeting - Friday 20th February 2015
The Theosophical Society, 14 Tyndalls Park Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1PY

David Finch, who gave us an excellent talk on Modern Shamanism last year, is back to talk about his research into the sounds of the Universe, the Dragon line frequencies and how sounds have interacted with human and animal minds since the beginning. Ancient Bolivian Stone pipes, Digeridoos, Bull-roarers and other instruments are shown to have been tuned to these natural frequencies whereas modern instruments are in fact detuned to them. The most sacred of sounds are now explained mathematically. This is an exceptional, special one off talk that should not be missed as its findings will leave you reeling and wanting to experience and play the sounds yourself.
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More on the singing stones. While on a virtual tour of Ancient Ireland (in the period before the Celtic Saints started bothering the locals), I tripped over the Hill Of Tara.

At the summit of the hill ... is an oval Iron Age hilltop enclosure ... known as Ráith na Righ (the Fort of the Kings, also known as the Royal Enclosure).

In the middle ... is a standing stone, which is believed to be the Lia Fáil (Stone of Destiny) at which the High Kings were crowned. According to legend, the stone would scream if a series of challenges were met by the would-be king. At his touch the stone would let out a screech that could be heard all over Ireland.


Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_of_Tara

The power to make stones scream is indeed a powerful power. Vaguely similar to the "would-be king" Arthur, and Excalibur and the Sword in the Stone.

Has anyone found any other examples?
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Wile E. Coyote


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It is a version of the Gordian Knot myth.......
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Boreades


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What knot?
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Hatty
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Wile E. Coyote wrote:
Hatty wrote:

beacon-chapel

Chapel=Cape.... disguised (cloaked) promontory point?

The chapel has to be visible, or rather the beacon-light needs to be seen. But a constant flame is a very serious fire risk so it'd probably be wise to have a permanent water supply close by, surrounding the site itself would be even more efficient.

The typical early castles built inland almost exactly reproduce the plan of an offshore island even down to the drawbridge-cum-causeway. A moat might be considered an essential feature in the absence of a natural (or artificial) lake. Perhaps the 'Venus Pool', filling up at high tide when the causeway route is blocked, is the ancestor of the reservoir or standby water supply .
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Hatty
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Wile E. Coyote wrote:
It is a version of the Gordian Knot myth.......

Crows might be able to unpick it.

Ancient Egyptian sailors complained about corvids attacking the rigging apparently in protest at not being fed (somewhat reminiscent of cormorants going on strike if they're not given their expected ration) according to some 1st-century historian called Aelian

while he correctly points out that ravens can be very vocal when trying to access food, he also claims that when they do not receive any, they will attack the ropes of Nile boats in order to force sailors to feed them
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Hatty wrote:
Up in the fells Victorian prospectors with a view to setting up slate mines visually assessed an area and then made a reservoir, waiting for it to fill with water off the moors before releasing it. The flow of water created a gully and channelled through the rock with enough force to determine if the location was suitable for mining.


This novel use of water, in Hat's posts (letting nature take the strain), attracted my attention. Slate mining has never been thought of as very important in the UK...... Spain leads the way.....

But............

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Delabole_slate_quarry.jpg

This slate mine, which looks like a massive giant's amphitheater, situated in Cornwall is now the largest (huh?) man made hole in Europe. Slate mining was also going on in the so-called Middle ages around the Menai straits.
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Slate mining has never been thought of as very important in the UK...... Spain leads the way.....

As someone who once lived in a slate quarry I feel pressed to object. Blaunau Ffestiniog (not the quarry in question) was the largest in the world and North Walian slate was a mega-industry employing 17,000 men. "Bigiger than coal, mon," as the locals used to say. Still, the rest of Coyote's comments need pondering.
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