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Sue H
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quotePosted at 17:04 on 12th March 2010

I've just been reading about the mass burial grave of 51 Vikings found on Ridgeway Hill, near Weymouth. 

How absolutely facinating!

I would love to be an archaeologist. 

Here are some links if you're interested.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/8563719.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/8563377.stm 

 

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cathyml
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quotePosted at 17:20 on 12th March 2010
I had a look Sue, fascinating and interesting, but I am glad I am not an archaeologist! I'd rather dig up my dead people through genealogy - at least that is what my husband says I am doing! Laughing
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Krissy
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quotePosted at 17:45 on 12th March 2010

I'd give my left arm to dig there!! This is the kind of thing I wanted to do when I was young....now too!!!

 

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Jason T
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quotePosted at 18:24 on 12th March 2010

Ok deal Krissy!!  i could do with a spare left arm!  ....there you go a shovel ... go on then get digging!!Wink

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Jason T
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quotePosted at 18:25 on 12th March 2010
Seriously though .. it does really interest me!  anyone else watch time team??
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Krissy
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quotePosted at 18:57 on 12th March 2010
I direct...you dig Jason!!! And any loot we find we split down the middle!!!
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cathyml
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quotePosted at 18:59 on 12th March 2010
That's gruesome - splitting heads and skeletons in half, lol Laughing
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Krissy
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quotePosted at 19:01 on 12th March 2010
Who's.....Jason's?  Wink
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cathyml
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quotePosted at 19:20 on 12th March 2010
Won't work - you gave him the shovel, remember! lol Laughing
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Shirley K. Lawson
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quotePosted at 19:23 on 12th March 2010

You kow, I tried to type in the link and got an whole list of other things instead, I never could get the addy typed in for some reason. But I do like the subject of archealogy..I'm always buying books on the subject...trying to understand it.  So many of the those magaines have gone out of circulation also. Book I currently have before me deals with different types of symbols through time...especally Solomon's Key. This particualr one covers in brief each one of the secret societies through time also. I'd rather turn over our scared places to archealogists that will painstakingly research and take care of them then "looters". We can not preserve soemthing of antiquity once itsbeen ruined by others...rather its an temple, and livinging tree or an piece of pottery of some kind. Those whom do not cherish their past history...seldom enjoy making it wothwhile these days also.

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