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Creswell Crags

  • 12-08-2015 10:52am
    #1
    cfuserkildare
    Registered Users Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭


    Hey folks,

    I know this is not a local item, but could do with some help here.

    I was at the Creswell Crags a week and a half ago and we were shown the attached picture.

    The guide said that the image is very open to interpretation so would like other opinions please.


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  • #2
    Bonedigger
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    I think I may have seen this in a BBC documentary 'A History of Ancient Britain' which was presented by Neil Oliver. The engraving has been interpreted as a stag, is that right? It's difficult to make it out in the image you've uploaded.


  • #3
    cfuserkildare
    Registered Users Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭cfuserkildare


    The tour guide said most likely a horse looking to the left.
    My interpretation is more like an Ibex type animal facing to the right. Especially the 2 scimitar horns leading down to a deer or goat type head and the outline of the back and rump over to the left of the image.


  • #4
    Bonedigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Bonedigger


    cfuserkildare wrote: »
    The tour guide said most likely a horse looking to the left.
    My interpretation is more like an Ibex type animal facing to the right. Especially the 2 scimitar horns leading down to a deer or goat type head and the outline of the back and rump over to the left of the image.

    How old do they believe this engraving is?


  • #5
    cfuserkildare
    Registered Users Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭cfuserkildare


    Hey Bonedigger,

    The drawings are estimated to be more than 12'600 years old.

    Quote from website:-

    " Thin layers of calcium carbonate flowstone overlaying some of the engravings were dated using the uranium-series disequilibrium method, which showed the oldest of these flowstones to have formed at least 12,800 years ago"

    So images would be marginally older.


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