Beckett Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 http://www.manxradio.com/readItem.aspx?ID=...mp;cate=General Wonder what it is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC-Drift.com Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Can't wait........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 probably the bank receipt for the Mount Murray brown envelopes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Alien spaceship - from which we're all descended or maybe The arc of the covenant ( where better to hide it) Whatever I bet its old and dirty (insert own punchline) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
access55 Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Old Graveyard I'm told. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Programme presenter Tony Robinson says it's an exciting discovery, which may shed some light on an age old mystery. Is there a more underhand, snivelling little wretch on telly than this prat. He can't just find something old and interesting, no, it has to solve an age old mystery. There was a trailer for a programme he made recently looking at Doomsday beliefs which looked interesting until knobhead popped out screming that it is "absolutely central to the way we all look at the world today". And asking if there is a secret code in the Book of Revelation that predicts the end of the World. No fuckface that's what the book's about. Since they are always in such a rush on Time Team I hope they fill the trench in before the sod gets out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mission Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Did anyone know about this in advance? I'd have liked to have gone down there for a gander personally but once again, knew nothing about it until after the event. Oh well, guess I'll catch it on the television sometime... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkydevil Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Old Graveyard I'm told. They didn't mention that, but what they found was a stone with an inscription in 'Ogham' which is an old alphabet dating from the 5-6th centuary. Apparently it's quite a find, if you're into that sort of thing. Info on Ogham here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Marstander (a key Norse Archaeologist wrote in 1937 about 2 other Manx Ogham inscriptions - "The inscriptions of Ballaqueeney and Knock y Doonee may be described as the most unique and important historical monuments any people possesses, being original documents, removed in time by only a few generations from the great events that made the Isle of Man a Celtic community, and older by far than Fergus Mor's conquest of Scotland." thus this too may date from around 3rd to 4th Century Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Shift Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Isn't there a song down south called The Queen of Ballaqueeney or is this a differnt Ballaqueeney? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Wasn't the Bayqueen hotel in Port St. Mary originally called the Ballaqueen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyboarder Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Maybe it's King Orry's long lost golf ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manxman27 Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 This reminds me of the song by Chris TT about Time Team finding the Holy Grail and it changing the whole world. Build A Bridge, Burn A Bridge Tony Robinson and his Time Team found the Holy Grail in Somerset They won an Emmy, they won a Nobel Prize and Channel Four staff got a pay rise Call the lawyers! Call security! A Holy tug-of-war could be a new Crusade the Chief Rabbi wants a piece of the action and the Pope is on His way Build a bridge... They put the Chalice in the British Museum and the Pope had to queue with the people outside Archeology defeated the faithful within a year the religions all died in Hollywood they made a new Indian Jones and Tony Robinson got a cool cameo: he played himself with some fake archeology men, found the Grail again and again and again Burn a bridge... Would you long for an enemy in an empty world? You so rubbish on your own, would your soul unfurl? What a coincidence Chris TT will be playing at the Cornerhouse Friday 6th October More Details Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Maybe we should have got the time team in to do Windy Corner and Brandish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuartT Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 One does have to ask exactly how much justice a 4 day dig (and I belive only 2 days of actual finds + recording, the rest was spent covering it up), can do to a site which was allegedly "untouched" (which it actually turned out subsequently it wasn't anyway)? It also begs the question what was ignored & destroyed around that area when the golf couse and then the estate was built??? They found a remains of a Keill (which one of the archeologists persisted in calling an "old church" until I told them we called them Keill's & 3 lintel graves (cists). There was also a ditch which contained finds which dated to the bronze age, and there is a suggestion this site might have been in use for much longer than the Keill, the ditch was quite extensive, but obviously not excavated in its entirety. Still does look interesting, and according a young lady I was chatting to, it will be used as the basis for future excavations of that site. Ogham's (I believe they should be correctly prounouced Ohams - though I never do & neither do most people I know) are a fairly significant find, though not unusual over here. They're basically an alphabet which somewhat resembles a system of tally's - the letter being denoted by the position of the scribe above, below, or upon the centreline, the number of tallies upon it, and as to whether they are straight or have a slant to them. It's actually pretty easy to read when you are familiar with it (though I've forgotten what most of the symbols are now obviously not having much use for them in everyday life). If you want to see Oghams, you will see examples of them in the Manx Museum, together with a key explaining what each symbol means. They predate the nordic runic alphabet, and examples of them can be found in sites in Scotland (some are even found upon Pictish stones there as well), Ireland & Wales. I will be watching the program with interest, however I doubt it will actually do justice to the site & will probably not even impart much of the information that has been found. I hope they will do a follow up talk at some point at an on Island venue. Found it a bit strange seeing the team there, cos you get so used to seeing them on TV you feel like you know them, I remember seeing Tony Robinson & giving him a nod (like you do to aquaintances) saying "alright mate" then remembered that I hadn't evern met him, and he was probably thinking "who the f@ck is he"!!??!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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