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I was looking at some cup marks on some rocks near my house recently and it made me realize how good stone is for permanent records of civilization I'm half co

• Cthulhu_ 6y ago
  The best place to do something like that is in a cave, ideally in the side of a mountain, so that erosion doesn't have a chance. That's where iirc most cave paintings and artefacts are found nowadays. That, or buried in ruins covered by time.
• tomcooks 6y ago
  Mind sharing the general location of those cup marked rocks, as PM if you prefer. Or if it's a famous rock the name and/or a link will suffice I have similar findings near my house and I'm trying to investigate similarities
  • fiftyacorn 6y ago
    It was corstorphine hill in Edinburgh https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/727/corstorphine_hill.html https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/727/corstorphine_h... It's quite interesting seeing how many things like this exist
• patrickk 6y ago
  This reminds me of the role of Ogham stones plays in Ireland and parts of Britain that were originally Celtic or partially Celtic[1] A primitive early alphabet survived an incredible amount of time, from the fifth and sixth centuries. For reference, this is around the time of the collapse of the Western Roman empire. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham_inscription https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham_inscription