cap n chris
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.... ok, you can tell me when we meet up - when are we doing the pics of the new stuff over Loxton way?.... I'm free tomorrow (John Inman would be proud).
cap 'n chris said:P.S. Had a neat idea for a reconstruction photo yesterday - dress up in old style clothing, wearing a cap and holding a pipe in gritted teeth, picture in sepia tones and grainy of someone surfacing Sump 1. It'd be a hoot. Any takers for fame?....
gus horsley said:Maybe someone should propose some rules as to what actually constitutes "meaningful" grafitti.
cap 'n chris said:.... ok, you can tell me when we meet up - when are we doing the pics of the new stuff over Loxton way?.... I'm free tomorrow (John Inman would be proud).
Peter Burgess said:Can anyone beat 1609 with an earlier genuine date inscription?
gus horsley said:cap 'n chris said:Maybe someone should propose some rules as to what actually constitutes "meaningful" grafitti.
In the US they use a rolling cut off date of fifty years. Arbitrary, but what isn't?
graham said:In the US they use a rolling cut off date of fifty years. Arbitrary, but what isn't?
cap 'n chris said:hole_in_the_rock said:Someone holds the responsibility, find out who before you act, is all that I am suggesting.
Easier said than done; do you have any idea how hard it is to find out who owns anything? Where do you go to ask? Do you put an advert in the local newspaper "Who owns the bit of land at (grid reference)?", "Does anyone have a clue about the owner of a hole near a hedge in a field near a road by a village?".
The question is this: IF YOU own land, a cave or a mine have you put up a sign with your contact details on it so that anyone with a passing interest in the site can make an approach to ask you for more information/permission to visit? If landowners fail to assist interested parties' endeavours to seek permission then it's hardly the biggest surprise in the world if they go ahead and wander around until they get buttonholed by the site owner/manager.
Peter Burgess said:Anyone else found any interesting grafitti recently?
hole_in_the_rock said:Go to the land registry office and find out who owns land. When they fail the local council usually have contact details of the owners. Emergency services also usually have the contact details of the owners if the site has been visited for rescues in the past.
Seems pretty simple to me.
cap 'n chris said:gus horsley said:Maybe someone should propose some rules as to what actually constitutes "meaningful" grafitti.
.... probably impossible, since meaning can be derived by individuals/experts from a multiplicity of backgrounds you need to know what you're looking for before you stand much of a chance of finding it, especially when it comes to non-obvious ancient scratchings. I imagine a lot of modern day meaningful graffiti is comprised of phone booth cards of scantily clad women with mobile numbers underneath.
gus horsley said:Often a sign saying "Danger keep out" at a mine entrance is interpreted as "Come on in, there's something interesting in here".
cap 'n chris said:BTW, have you ever put your hand in a liquidiser and switched it on?
cap 'n chris said::shock: ... by you, maybe. By me? No.
BTW, have you ever put your hand in a liquidiser and switched it on?
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