13th December 2010, 03:22 PM
First up, it's a pity some people can't tell radar from mag!
Secondly, I love the little picture of a Neolithic man. He appears to be sitting outside a stone-walled roundhouse, holding a Beaker and wearing a metal buckled belt (and possiblly metal bracelets, armband and pendant but they could be leather!)
I assumed that the 'fenceposts' are actually the larger anomalies, Hosty. As Vince Gaffney points out, they are rather large for fencepost holes. When he says there was no metal in the holes, I presume he means that they have not been excavated, but there is no obviously ferrous reponse. The anomalies look very strong though, and have negative haloes: there's something in there, even if it's only magnetically contrasting dirt. Either way, I am not convinced that a lack of metal confirms a neolithic date.
Secondly, I love the little picture of a Neolithic man. He appears to be sitting outside a stone-walled roundhouse, holding a Beaker and wearing a metal buckled belt (and possiblly metal bracelets, armband and pendant but they could be leather!)
I assumed that the 'fenceposts' are actually the larger anomalies, Hosty. As Vince Gaffney points out, they are rather large for fencepost holes. When he says there was no metal in the holes, I presume he means that they have not been excavated, but there is no obviously ferrous reponse. The anomalies look very strong though, and have negative haloes: there's something in there, even if it's only magnetically contrasting dirt. Either way, I am not convinced that a lack of metal confirms a neolithic date.