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There are places that we've never been,
and strange things that we've never seen;
great things of this World
to yet be unfurled,
can leave us with knowledge quite lean
and strange things that we've never seen;
great things of this World
to yet be unfurled,
can leave us with knowledge quite lean
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ISLE OF PURBECK, DORSET
Old Harry Rocks
The Coastline has changed so much, that even 'Old Harry', doesn't know if he's 'Arthur, or Martha'? |
A storm in 1896, reduced the rock in size (on the right) down to almost a midget to what it was |
If you read anything on the internet, about 'Old Harry rocks', it's always suggested, that the little rock, is the wife. Wikipedia, goes a step further and says, that this is Harry 2nd wife, the first one was destroyed, then this little one developed. Here, is a different theory again, and food for thought!
So, is Old Harry's wife, the short one?
The illustrations below, show Harry's Wife on the other side of him, in 1837. Were they both much taller & skinnier before 1858? |
The sketch from 1855 (don't know how accurate it is?), is vastly different from the 1858, 1870 & 1882 sketches, left
Both rocks are clearly much larger than they are, present day.
Even earlier, in 1837, what is written, suggests that Old Harry might be the one that's been dwarfed?
Old Harry is suppose to be the one on the left, in these sketches
The cliff immediately rises to the south of Old Harry. Dr. M. speaks of a tabular mass, half way to Ballard Point, about 100 feet high...and says, 50 years ago, there was a connection between it and the main land.
Stanley Green, 5th Dec. 1837. Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany ..., Volume 2 1838 When it was first named, was Old Harry, a much larger chunk of rock, then the pointed section broke away, making the rock on the left, the smaller one?(his wife)
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Fig 42 (above), Represents the appearance of the Old Harry Rocks from the very extremity of the cliff of the mainland, and the position of the Needles in the Isle of Wight directly opposite, at the distance of sixteen miles. The action of the sea upon these insulated pillars, and on the whole of the chalky cliffs, is continually changing their size and Shape, and modifying the surface.
Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany ..., Vol 1, By Edward Charlesworth 1837
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Kz9NAAAAYAAJ&p
Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany ..., Vol 1, By Edward Charlesworth 1837
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Kz9NAAAAYAAJ&p
Old Harry's Wife, is on the left, in this sketch. Much Taller than she is now, of course
I have stated the cliff at Old Harry to be about 100 feet high; (p. 418). Dr. M. says "the boatmen ascertained Old Harry to be about 70 feet high, by looking at the mast of an Indiaman, which came very near him."
Now Old Harry stands on a ledge, dry at low water, and having only a depth of 6 feet over it, at high water. Old Harry's wife has two feet water at the base, at low, and 8 feet at high, water....In order, however, to make certain, (for, of my two boatmen, one said Old Harry was 70, and the other, 100 feet high), I requested Lieut. Billingsley, R. N. chief officer at Studland, to have it measured. This he accomplished by a hand-line, over the cliff, and his determination is, that Old Harry rock is not more than 70 feet, the cliff being higher;—and that Old Harry's wife is 93 feet high, the cliff opposite being 130 feet.
Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany ..., Volume 2 1838
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=jmJNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA133&d
Now Old Harry stands on a ledge, dry at low water, and having only a depth of 6 feet over it, at high water. Old Harry's wife has two feet water at the base, at low, and 8 feet at high, water....In order, however, to make certain, (for, of my two boatmen, one said Old Harry was 70, and the other, 100 feet high), I requested Lieut. Billingsley, R. N. chief officer at Studland, to have it measured. This he accomplished by a hand-line, over the cliff, and his determination is, that Old Harry rock is not more than 70 feet, the cliff being higher;—and that Old Harry's wife is 93 feet high, the cliff opposite being 130 feet.
Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany ..., Volume 2 1838
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=jmJNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA133&d
Old Harry rock is not more than 70 feet, the cliff being higher;—and that Old Harry's wife is 93 feet high, the cliff opposite being 130 feet. (1837)
It's interesting to see how the coastline has changed over time
It really doesn't matter, which Harry is who, but if we don't record things properly, or pass it on to the next generation, no-matter what it is, the the truth can be lost, just like, 'How Old Harry got his name'.
Then over time, a new tale is circulated, that then, becomes the 'new' truth.
It may well be, that only 'Old Harry' himself, knows his true identity.
The Illustrated Historical and Picturesque Guide to Poole and ..., Part 3 By Philip Brannon
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=P7JYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA79&dq
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=P7JYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA79&dq
15 of the World's most incredible Sea Stacks
https://www.redbull.com/za-en/15-incredible-sea-stacks
Geological Excursions Round the Isle of Wight: And Along the Adjacent Coast ...By Gideon Algernon Mantell
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Rx5GAQAA
https://www.redbull.com/za-en/15-incredible-sea-stacks
Geological Excursions Round the Isle of Wight: And Along the Adjacent Coast ...By Gideon Algernon Mantell
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Rx5GAQAA
Agglestone Rock
The diameter on the top is 60 feet, and its bottom takes up an half acre and 14 perches of ground. Its perpendicular
height 90 feet If the Stone is so big, then how did it
get there? Some say it was made on the spot in layers, others say that it was brought in from somewhere else
The ancient Britons, there is little doubt, had skill to lift great weights, as is evinced by many indisputed remains; nor is the magnitude of the Agglestone greater than that of the Tamen at Constantine, in Cornwall, mentioned by Dr. Borlase;...the red heath-sand, or moor-stone, is very common all over the heath; though it does not abound hereabouts in any large masses. Ferrugineous sandstone is plentiful throughout the north-east part of Purbeck, which is a bleak, unfruitful heath; and, from its proximity to the sea, cliffs and hills of sand are continually there accumulating, which exactly applies to the circumstances of the Agglestone; and moist semi-oxygenated particles of iron (observes Dr. Maion) are well known to have an agglutinating power; this monument, therefore, which is composed of ferrugineous sand-stone, appears to me to have been formed on the spot; and there can be no necessity for supposing that the Druids (if it be true that it is a Druidical monument) would bring so enormous a mass from a distance. The country people call it the Devil's Night-Cap; and there is a tradition, that his Satanic Majesty threw it from the Isle of Wight, with an intent to demolish Corfe Castle.
The Beauties of England & Wales...1803 https://books.google.com.au/books?id Some say it's a 'Dolmen', a Devil's or Fairy Table.
The Phoenicians traded to Kimmeridge and Studland
bays in Dorset In both of these bays are altars bearing the same name, to the sun, the Hieliog.
There is also a spot at Kimmeridge bay called the Agglestone; no stone or mound exists, but, as at Marden, the mound may have been removed. It is a singular corroboration to me that the Phoenicians traded to Kimmeridge and Studland bays in Dorset, that very curious fragments of pottery have been exhumed at Studland bay, and something, as I have been told, like a potter's wheel; in the latter they found clay, which is used in vast quantities to this day in our potteries, and at Kimmeridge they found the coal to burn it; in both of these bays are altars bearing the same name, to the sun, the Hieliog.
Hermes Britannicus: A Dissertation on the Celtic Deity...By William Lisle Bowles 1828 https://books.google.com.au/books?id=du |
Studland, Dorset, a league from Pool, lies in the extremity of the N. E. part of the Isle of Purbeck, 3 miles N. of Swanwich. It is a large parish bounded on the N. by Pool Bay. On the common are many barrows, some of them large and oblong, but generally round. The most remarkable is Agglestone or Stone barrow. The diameter on the top is 60 feet, and its bottom takes up an half acre and 14 perches of ground. Its perpendicular height 90 feet. It was no doubt a rock idol in the British age, of the same kind as the Wring-Cheese in Cornwall. It is 18 feet high, 60 in girth at the bottom, 80 in the middle, 90 near the top, and is supposed to weigh 400 tons. Here is an ancient church.
England's Gazetteer vol 3 By Philipp Luckombe 1790 https://books.google.com.au/books The country people call it the Devil's Night-Cap
DOLMENS, raised stones, Devil's or Fairy Tables, are monuments composed of several stones, some of which are laid horizontally on the ends of others set upright in the ground, for the purpose of supporting them.
Tacitus, in speaking of the Isle of Mona (Anglesey), which, as we have already said, was the principal seat of the Druidical religion in Britain, informs us that the Romans there cut down forests, in which the natives had been accustomed to practise the most cruel superstitions, making the altars smoke with the blood of their captives, and consulting the Divinity by inspection of the entrails of the victims... The dolmens, on the contrary, were stained with the blood of victims, and there is no doubt that human beings were occasionally sacrificed thereon. A simple contrivance, observed in many of them, is sufficient to remove all uncertainty on this point; the table of many dolmens...has a sort of basin, of a circular form, evidently intended to receive the blood of the victims, which ran off by a gutter or channel that is still visible. Borlase and Higgins give a description of a large dolmen in the parish of Constantine, in Cornwall... In St. Mary's, the principal of the Scilly Isles.. Lastly, in the Peninsula of Purbeck, in Dorsetshire, there is a dolmen, called the Agglestone (or Adlingstone), which has also three cavities sunk in the upper surface of its table. Ancient and Modern Architecture: Consisting of Views, Plans ..., Vol 1, 1844, edited by Jules Gailhabaud https://books.google.com.au/books?id=h The table of many dolmens...has a sort of basin, of a circular form, with three cavities sunk in the upper surface of its table, evidently intended to receive the blood of the (sacrificed) victims
The Agglestone is also known as the Adlingstone, or the Devil's Anvil.
The Agglestone, is said to be Sandstone.
Sandstone is a coherent and hard rock composed of grains of sand agglutinated by quartz cement.
Maybe it was called the 'Agglestone', because of it's Agglutinating ability?, who knows?
Is it possible that people were taller back then?, that would explain a lot of things, like Stonehenge etc. and how these rocks got there.
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Giants, Are They Real?
'Irish giant' may finally get respectful burial after 200 years on display
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/22
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/22
In 1831, it is recorded that the average height of men, is between 5 & 6 Feet.
The ordinary height of men is between 5 and 6 feet, and the greatest deviations from this medium height, in Europe, are found in England and Switzerland.
Encylopaedia Americana Vol 5 1831 We all know that there are people out there, with Growth Hormone problems, but it's been recorded in the past, noting many people in the same area, as being extremely tall.
Did they all have health problems like our Irish giant above? or did a race of giants really exist?
Giant Human Skeletons
https://itsmth.fandom.com/wiki/Giant_Human If giants really did exists, they could easily move the Agglestone, or arrange Stonehenge, without much effort.
Here are some very large skeletons that were documented in books from the 1700's & 1800's.
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Some people believe that Adam (the first man) was 15, 23, or even 90 feet tall
It's hard for us to imagine someone
so tall A Little mouse, only lives 2 years. Adam was said to live to be over 900 years old
Each generations now, seems to be getting taller, so were there giants on the Earth at one time?
Some people say that the giant skulls or bones that have been found, are a hoax.
Giant Skeletons, have been found, buried in mounds, across America
https://www.gaia.com/article/giant-skeletons |
Mystery Of The Patagonian Giants
http://www.ancientpages.com/2018/08/15/mystery M. Le Cat gives the following account of Giants, which are said to have existed in different ages: Profane historians have assigned seven feet of height to Hercules, their first hero, and in our days we have seen men eight feet high; the giant who was shewn in Rouen in 1735, measured eight feet some inches: the Emperor Maximin was of that size; Skenkius and Platerus, physicians of the last century, saw several of that stature, and Goropins a girl who was ten feet high. The body of Orestes, according to the Greeks, was eleven feet and a half; the giant- Galbara, brought from Arabia to Homo under Claudius Caesar, was near ten feet; and the bones of Secondilla and Pusio, keepers of the gardens of Sallust, were but six inches shorter. Funnain, a Scotsman, who lived in the time of Eugene II. King of Scotland, measured eleven feet and a half
Bell's New Pantheon....1790 Jacob le Maire, in his voyage to the Streights of Magellan, reports that on the 17th of December 1615, they found at Port Desire, several graves covered with stones, under which, having the curiosity to remove them, they discovered human skeletons of ten and eleven feet long. The Chevalier Scory, in his voyage to the Pike of Teneriffe, mentions, that they found in one of the sepulchral caverns of that mountain, the head of a Guanche, which had eighty teeth, and that the body was not less than fifteen feet long. The giant Ferragus, slain by Orlando, nephew of Charlemange, was eighteen feet high. Rioland, a celebrated anatomist, who wrote in 1614, says that some years before, there was visible in the suberb of St. Germain, the tomb of the Giant Isoret, who was twenty feet high. At Rouen, in 1509, whilst digging in the ditches near the Dominicans, a stone tomb was discovered, containing a skeleton whose skull held a bushel of corn, and whose shinbone reached up to the girdle of the tallest man present, being about four feet long, and consequently the body must have been seventeen or eighteen feet high: upon the tomb was a plate of copper, whereon was engraved, "In this tomb lies the noble and puissant lord, the chevalier Ricon de Vallamont, Mazarino, in Sicily, in 1516, was found a giant thirty feet high; his head was the size of an hogshead, and each of his teeth weighed five ounces. Not far from Palermo, in the valley of Mazara, in Sicily, the skeleton of a giant thirty feet long was found, in the year 1548; and another of thirty-three in length in 1550; and many curious persons have preserved several of these gigantic bones.
Bell's New Pantheon: Or, Historical Dictionary of the Gods, Demi-gods ...By John Bell 1790 Gene Kelly, Dancing with The Woggle Birds, in the 1967 version of Jack & The Beanstalk 3:13
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Monceaux, the skeleton of a giant ninety-six feet long was found in a wall at Chailliot, near Thessalonica in Macedonia. This fact was communicated to him by Father Jerome de Rhetel, a missionary in the Levant, who, in a letter written from Selo, stated that this giant's skull was found entire, and could contain two hundred and ten pounds of corn; that a tooth belonging to the under-jaw, when drawn, weighed fifteen pounds, and was seven inches two lines in length; that the smallest bone of the little toe of one of his feet was equal to it in size; that the armbone from the elbow to the wrist was two feet, four inches, eight lines round; and that two soldiers, with their jackets and coats with large sleeves on, easily passed their arms thus covered through the cavity of the bone.
Giants and Dwarfs, by Edward J. Wood 1868 https://books.google.com.au/books?id=3o Mount Eryx a cave, wherein was found the dead body of a giant sitting, with a staff in his hand, like the mast of a ship; and that the whole mouldered into ashes at the touch, excepting three teeth, which were kept by the magistrate of the city, who had been called forth to the spectacle, together with a part of the scull, that contained four bushels of Sicilian measure.
Bell's New Pantheon: Or, Historical Dictionary of the Gods, Demi-gods ...By John Bell 1790 https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nypdAA Jacob Le Maire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Le_Maire The Athenians found near their city two famous skeletons, one of thirty-four and the other of thirty-six feet high. At Toth, in Bohemia, in 1738, was discovered a skeleton, the head of which could scarcely be encompassed by the arms of two men together, whilst his legs, still kept in the castle of that city, were twenty-six feet long.— The skull of the giant found in Macedonia, September 1691, held two hundred and ten pounds of corn. The celebrated Sir Hans Sloane, who treated very learnedly on the subject, had no doubt of these facts, but thought the bones were those of elephants, or other enormous declares, that he saw at Lucerne, "the true human bones of a subject which must have been at least nineteen feet high" Valence in Danphin boasts of possessing the bones of the giant. Bucart, tyrant of the Vivarais, who was slain with an arrow by the Count de Cabillon, his vassal: the Dominicans, who preserved part of the shin-bone, with the articulation near the knee, had his figure painted in fresco, and an inscription, shewing, that this giant was twenty-two feet and an half high, and that his bones were found in 1705, near the banks of the Mordeli, a little rivulet near the foot of the mountain of Crussol, upon which, tradition says, the giant dwelt. In 1613, near the ruins of a castle in Dauphine, some masons digging in a field, which, by tradition had long been called the Giants' Field, at the depth of eighteen feet, discovered a brick tomb thirty feet long, twelve feet wide, and eight feet high, on which was a grey stone with the words Theutobochus Rex.— When this tomb was opened, they found an entire skeleton twenty-five feet and a half long, ten feet wide across the shoulders, and five feet deep from the breast-bone to the back: his teeth were about the size each of the foot of an ox
Bell's New Pantheon....1790 |
Real or not? Who knows,
but I wouldn't want to cross any of these enormous people,
or meet them in a dark alley!
but I wouldn't want to cross any of these enormous people,
or meet them in a dark alley!