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Northern Earth 115

Submitted by JohnB on Tuesday, 07 October 2008  Page Views: 2300

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In this issue: Liverpool’s 2008 Stonehenge Rope Experiment Keep it simple – that’s John Hill’s advice understanding how a great stone circle was designed, and here he reports on how an identical ground-plan was created on a sports field in Liverpool, using schoolchildren with just ropes and fingers.

Seaside Simulacra on the Island of Great Cumbrae. Spotting natural look-alikes is a favourite pastime for everybody, but Mazda Munn shows how one Scottish island has taken it to heart

I don’t know much about rock art – but I know what I like. How proscriptive can we really be about prehistoric rock art? Should we only consider the markings made by the originators, or is the whole shape of the rock part of the composition? David Shepherd discusses carvings in the South Pennines, in a similar way to the discussion over natural vs artificial sacred places

Northern Earth’s Alternate Realities Competition. We have the winners in our competition for well-evidenced paranormal experience!

Rock-solid Boggarts in a Ring. Michael Haslam gets a glimpse of something on the Yorkshire moors that wasn't what it seemed... This is the winning entry in the Alternate Realities competition.

Having Your Say. Readers write in concerning Japanese alignments, Anglezarke’s Pikestones and strange Todmorden

This, That and the Other. Christine Rhone reviews a new book by Adam Stout, laying bare the cultural politics of prehistoric interpretation

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