Posted on 07/05/2007 11:08:07 AM PDT by blam
Workers discover ancient 'snake'
An aerial view of the 4000 year old 'Rotherwas Ribbon'
Diggers constructing a new access road have uncovered a mysterious serpent-shaped feature, dating from the early bronze age. The 197ft (60m) long ribbon of stones, found in Rotherwas, near Hereford, is thought to date from the same period as Stonehenge, roughly 2000 BC.
County archaeologist Dr Keith Ray said as far as he is aware the stone feature is unique in Europe.
"We can only speculate it may have been used in some kind of ritual," he said.
'International significance'
The Rotherwas Ribbon, as it is being called, is made up of a series of deliberately fire-cracked stones and appears to have been deliberately sculptured to undulate through the whole of its length that has so far been uncovered.
"This is an exciting find, not just for Herefordshire and the UK, but apparently, so far, unique in Europe. It has international significance," Dr Ray said.
Archaeologists said although the practice of laying stones in small level pavements is known at sites in Pembrokeshire and elsewhere, the closest parallel to the Rotherwas Ribbon is the "Great Serpent Mound", in Ohio, USA, which is thought to have been built between 200 BC and 400 AD.
The Serpent Mound is a 1,330ft (405m) long effigy of a serpent.
Ohio has an ancient and famous snake mound.
GGG Ping.
So this is evidence that ancient Ohioans discovered EuROPe........
Mound Road on the east side of Detroit is named for a large Indian Mound at the corner of Mound and East Outer Drive. It's still there and kids use it to sled on in the winter.
It looks more like a road than a snake to me.
The Ohio site is approximately 3,000 years younger than this site.
Dr Keith Ray said as far as he is aware the stone feature is unique in Europe.not even one of these in Brittany?
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“We can only speculate it may have been used in some kind of ritual,”
Or art.
3000 years? Okay, some ancient Brits got lost on their way home from the pub.............
I didn't know Britney had any stones.......except maybe K-Fed's..........
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Odd that they’re assuming that this was designed and created by an intelligent being.
This could have just occurred naturally. Indeed, over a long enough timeline it’s a certainty that this exact formation would appear without any intelligent force behind it.
Or something to walk on when it rains.
Looks like a lava bed to me.
Fire cracked stones with nearby but separate fir pits?
“It looks more like a road than a snake to me.”
Same here ... .
Why not? Given millions and millions and millions of years, this type of formation is certain to occur naturally.
Fire is natural, stone is natural, pits are natural. Given enough chances, Nature is bound to create this combination and sequence at some point.
Watch out, ancient snakes can be dangerous!!!
Plot summary for
The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095488/plotsummary
Scottish archaelogist Angus Flint discovers an odd skull amid the ruins of a convent which he is excavating. Shortly thereafter, Lady Sylvia Marsh returns to Temple House, a nearby mansion, far earlier than expected. At a party in the village, Angus meets Lord James D’Ampton, who has just inherited his family’s lands, right next to Temple House. Angus learns of the D’Ampton Worm, a huge dragon/snake which an earlier D’Ampton killed by cutting it in half. (There’s a pretty catchy rock-folk song that tells the D’Ampton Worm legend.) As people begin disappearing and acting strangely over the next day or two, the skull is stolen from Angus’ room, and the watch of a missing person is found in a cavern which was the legendary home of the D’Ampton worm. Angus and James discover that there was an ancient cult which worshiped the worm as a god, and theorize that the creature somehow survived its “destruction”, but was trapped inside the cavern. The remainder of the movie shows Angus, James, and Mary Trent attempting to stop Lady Marsh from freeing the creature... Written by Alik Widge
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