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Lost Secrets - an adventure during Neolithic times

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Re: Full laser scan for Stonehenge by Anonymous on Sunday, 14 October 2012

Greetings Guys, Stonehenge stone 4 is one the pair of columns denoting the Harvest Festival month, Llew or Lugnasad, third in the ancient sixteen month Sun calendar. Summer is month one. The E-H laser image has a considerable number of the tee shaped petroglyphs, perhaps in excess of twenty, although my interpretation of the number of laser images on Portal News may not do justice to the original laser scan. It depends upon the quality provided by E-H to the News. It is hard to know if one is imagining another tee impression.
I strongly resist the use of the word "axehead". That term is highly likely to cause a totally wrong impression and become set in stone, wrongly perpetuated into the future. In my view the portrayed articles are much more likely to be associated with harvesting, perhaps double sided hook sickles with flint microliths embedded along the left and right inner pull edges and with a long handle. The actual number of tee petroglyphs may represent a team of harvesters cutting cereals.
The individual images do not represent an axe, rather a tee with tangs decreasing towards the tip each side. Axes have a long cutting edge, not a point.

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