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    Study on Ritual wood burning in Iron Age Ireland.

    Hi folks, sorry it's taken me so long to get back to this post, but I really am surprised it has spurred such discussion. The reason this article caught my eye is partly because of my own habits when collecting firewood. I spent 20 years in the oilfields, where it's advised that a lazy man...
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    Study on Ritual wood burning in Iron Age Ireland.

    For those of you interested in such things, a fascinating study has developed from an archaeological dig in Ireland containing a ritual fire-pit. Dating of consecutive burning events, and types and proportions of various woods identified from charcoal analysis throw up some quite evocative...
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    Nessmuk book and other archives?

    Cheers, bikething. I spent quite a while looking in resources etc, but may have suffered navigator's fixation, which never leads anywhere good! I'll check it out again.
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    Nessmuk book and other archives?

    Hi folks, It's been a while since I popped into the Bushcraftuk forum, like one of those who only turn up when they want something... Would I be wrong in believing that there used to be a section in the forum of archived material which included a book by Nessmuk published in the late C19th or...
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    Whats The Best Bannock Recipe ??

    Here is a Scottish bannock recipe claiming to be "traditional". http://www.rampantscotland.com/recip...e_bannocks.htm Tradition depends on everything from region and family recipe to available produce, and I don't believe there was ever such a thing as a traditional bannock. The bannock ranges...
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    Article: Best places to see UK wildlife

    Fife's Got Everything My mate used to phone from 10 miles up the coast at Kinghorn to let me know when a dolphin school was on its way, and I'd return the favour when they were on the way back. I took my wife on a badger watch one evening a few years ago, she's still talking about the old...
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    Opening Day; Chauvet Pont d'Arc Cave Art

    Just a heads-up to anyone who’s at all interested… The Chauvet Pont d’Arc Cave in the Ardèche region of southern France, discovered in 1994 by three speleologists, in which were found cave paintings since identified as the oldest yet known worldwide [although I know a wee Spanish man who might...
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    Fear of the dark

    Hey Demonwolf, don't get downhearted mate. If you stay away from your favourite spots, then the A*s have won, although I'm sure Yorkshire has secluded spots aplenty. Wook's comment brought to mind an incident of some years ago in a Scottish bothy after someone let go a stinker, prompting a...
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    Ancient Aegean farming implements!

    Hi Toddy, yes indeed, and I'm still a bit blown away by the man's collection. With traditional craft and design, locally made fabrics both old and new, and ceramics of all imaginable type and age from traditional tiles and frescos to amphorae that had clearly been taken from the sea, it was...
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    Ancient Aegean farming implements!

    Ehmmm... actually Boatman and Skate, it was a waiter who told me they were harrows, which makes a lot of sense considering design and construction. The owner/collector said afterwards they were for a threshing process... which I doubted, probably whilst picturing a circular Scottish treadle...
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    Ancient Aegean farming implements!

    Hi Arjati, I'm told they were commonly used until fairly recently and may still be used on terraces inaccessible to modern machinery. Use of flint, wood and steel though, I still find mind-blowing!
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    Ancient Aegean farming implements!

    Hi folks, My wife and I just got back from a break in Rhodes and I thought some may be interested in old farming implements that were placed as features around the grounds of our hotel. The owner, a Rhodes man, is a keen collector of all manner of artefacts, many of which he has simply taken...
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    Dark Ecology

    Milius2, you just banged the nail on the thumb! I've been procrastinating over whether to post on this thread for a couple of days, asking if I really want to do it to myself! A most fascinating topic and discussion, and far from one solely of interest to "Doomsday Preppers", but rather to all...
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    Ticks

    Why not on the dog, Niels? Is there something ominous I should already have known about? Good work in highlighting this info Filterhoose. I'm amazed at how many walkers, fishermen, etc, are unaware of the dangers of tick bites, yet go regularly into areas where the dangers are greatest. Two...
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    Lingo Differnces

    ;) I love it! Not having looked in for a while, this thread reminds me why I joined the forum in the first place and is a great welcome back. I haven't read the whole thread, but will when I get the chance this evening. Laughed out loud at your biblical post, Goatboy, even though a bit...
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    Rosemary and deer

    Not in the Scottish mountains, Sandsnakes, for much the same reason that polar bears don't eat penguins, :cool:, although the reds will happily consume sorrel, myrtle and thyme... a most considerate and selfless act! Only 2 days ago, I watched an extremely confused roe buck munching away at...
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    Some of my Stone age tools and arrowheads

    Hi Launditch1, you're a lucky man to have aquired such knowledge by observation, and on your doorstep. Do I imagine it, or is there some sort of charismatic residue left on these objects that compels me to stare in wonder at them for hours on end... and some ask if it's art! I quite often come...
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    Stung twice by bull ants..!!

    Hi Ozzhaggishead, I'd just like to ask if you keep your knife finely honed?, 'cos it was your right nipple I was worried about. I suppose it would be too much to hope that you have footage of the following 5 minutes. I do sympathise, honest! :lmao: Cheers mate, Pango.
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    Natural Shelter and leaving no trace (Small Rant)

    cbr6fs, You seem to have some pretty entrenched views regarding people who don't slot neatly into your way of seeing things. Let me say that if you give 10 people the same materials to complete a spoken objective, I guarantee you'll get 10 variations on a theme. I built a shelter in a...
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    Stone Age Tools Museum

    Hi folks. I'm sure those of you with a particular interest in flint knapping, archaeology, human development, etc., are well aware of the Stone Age Tools Museum, so please forgive me if this is old hat. http://www.stoneagetools.co.uk/ The site includes a free e.book which is brief and concise...