Let's Play Statues......

[zenwalk]

Poppaea? And yes I had to track that one down. Never heard of her but this is someone of the era too:

http://thm-a01.yimg.com/nimage/80a41b2e3ce770fa

Always reminded me of a Roman Clinton.

[Niamhaine]

I'll try Claudius.....

[zenwalk]

Not Clau Clau Claudius. Liked the isle of Capris though. I can't see your avatar really clearly but is that a huge rock perched atop three smaller ones?

[Niamhaine]

Not Clau Clau Claudius. Liked the isle of Capris though. I can't see your avatar really clearly but is that a huge rock perched atop three smaller ones?

Yep, it's the Kilcooney/Kilclooney portal tomb (dolmen) in Donegal. Portal tombs date between 4000BC to 2500BC. They were not only burial places, but may have been monuments to ancestors and possibly created as declarations of territorial rights....... I'm a dolmen lover.

[Niamhaine]

No Claudius, so let's try Ti-Ti-Ti-Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus

[zenwalk]

That's a heck of a border marker. Do they have a notion how they were constructed?

[zenwalk]

It is Tiberius. He was an able administrator but stocking his swimming pool with young boys was a little much even by Roman standards. They never replay I Claudius and I can't figure out why.

[Niamhaine]

That's a heck of a border marker. Do they have a notion how they were constructed?

No one really knows for sure, but it's believed that the "caps" were placed on wooden rollers and pulled with the aid of leather traces. To move the animals upward, it is believed that a ramp of sand and clay was built between the "pillars". Experts are not sure just how this was done.

[Niamhaine]

That's a heck of a border marker. Do they have a notion how they were constructed?

Here's a site that gives some info:

http://www.irishmegaliths.org.uk/seanchlocha2.htm

[zenwalk]

Yeah, they think that's how they erect obiliskissis (plural in Baltimorese?) in Egypt.

[Niamhaine]

Yeah, they think that's how they erect obiliskissis (plural in Baltimorese?) in Egypt.

It's interesting stuff. Tracking down the different ones in the landscape and taking some picts gives you a sense of the history of the country.

[Niamhaine]

Beloved by little ones the world over...no, it's not Santa Claus-LOL:

http://pic90.picturetrail.com/VOL221.../389827356.jpg

[zenwalk]

So what's Stonehenge in the scheme of these things? I read recently where some think it's burial related because of something they learned from satellite imagry.

[zenwalk]

Beloved by little ones the world over...no, it's not Santa Claus-LOL:

http://pic90.picturetrail.com/VOL221.../389827356.jpg

Dr. Seuss?

[Niamhaine]

Dr. Seuss?

And now here's the Hoodwink
who winks through his winkhood.
Without a good winkhood
a Hoodwink can't wink good.
And folks, let me tell you,
there's only one circus
with winkhooded Hoodwinks
The Circus McGurkus!

.....pathetic isn't it that I can remember that s-o-o many years later

Theodor Seuss Geisel aka Dr Seuss it is!

[zenwalk]

And now here's the Hoodwink
who winks through his winkhood.
Without a good winkhood
a Hoodwink can't wink good.
And folks, let me tell you,
there's only one circus
with winkhooded Hoodwinks
The Circus McGurkus!

.....pathetic isn't it that I can remember that s-o-o many years later

Theodor Seuss Geisel aka Dr Seuss it is!

Crap. I wasn't prepared to win. Give me a minute.

[zenwalk]

Let's try it without a clue first

http://k43.pbase.com/o4/97/460597/1/...c._DSC6823.jpg

[Niamhaine]

So what's Stonehenge in the scheme of these things? I read recently where some think it's burial related because of something they learned from satellite imagry.

Stonehenge is believed to have been an enclosed cremation cemetery since they have found a lot of cremated remains there. It is stunning and I loved it, but very different to me from the portal tombs.

[zenwalk]

Stonehenge is believed to have been an enclosed cremation cemetery since they have found a lot of cremated remains there. It is stunning and I loved it, but very different to me from the portal tombs.

Howso? Seems the same sort of thing to my untrained eye. Different eras?

[Niamhaine]

Let's try it without a clue first

http://k43.pbase.com/o4/97/460597/1/...c._DSC6823.jpg

And without a pict..... I have to sign off anyway and go take my med which makes me very sleepy...z-z-z-z, so I'll catch you in the AM. Take your time, WINNAH.