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Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Mon Aug 01, 2022 1:05 pm

CharlesT wrote:One of only two examples from Scotland, it evidences a capability previously only conjectured.


Is this the evidence of weaving textiles in the Neolithic age, found as an impression on a clay pot discovered at the Ness of Brodgar dig in Orkney?

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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Mon Aug 01, 2022 1:43 pm

HalfManHalfTitanium wrote:
CharlesT wrote:One of only two examples from Scotland, it evidences a capability previously only conjectured.


Is this the evidence of weaving textiles in the Neolithic age, found as an impression on a clay pot discovered at the Ness of Brodgar dig in Orkney?

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Correct, the other being from the Luce Sands site in Wigtownshire. Appears to be a fine weave too. Other evidence from the Ness site points to various different pigments being available, so you can speculate that the clothing might have been quite colourful on occasion.

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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Mon Aug 01, 2022 4:00 pm

Thanks CharlesT!

CPH or TWP should be more well known - if only for amazing powers of survival.

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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Tue Aug 02, 2022 8:00 am

HalfManHalfTitanium wrote:Thanks CharlesT!

CPH or TWP should be more well known - if only for amazing powers of survival.

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Despite appearances, CRM wasn't involved. Nor was there any twinning with Riga, but it feels like there should have been.

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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:07 am

Just to move things on a bit, is CRM Charles Rennie Mackintosh?
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:29 am

CharlesT wrote:Just to move things on a bit, is CRM Charles Rennie Mackintosh?


CharlesT, you can read my mind - I was just about to add a clue to that effect.

Judging by appearance, you would be forgiven for thinking he was involved, but he wasn't.

Which is fair enough, because the location is 140 miles from his usual place of work. But not as the crow flies.

A namesake of the location gained fame (and destruction) in 1942. It is funny to think that if dramatized, that story might have appeared at the location in question.

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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Thu Aug 04, 2022 5:50 pm

My research tells me that Campbelltown is 140 miles ftom Glasgow, CRM's stomping ground, and has one of the oldest purpose built picture houses in Scotland, Campbelltown Picture House aka The Wee Picture House.
The architect, Albert Gardner, had been a student of architecture at The Glasgow School of Art.

I knew none of that until ten minutes ago. 😁

Unsurprising, as I haven't been inside a cinema for 30 years, which amply illustrates my interest in the medium.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Thu Aug 04, 2022 6:40 pm

CharlesT wrote:My research tells me that Campbelltown is 140 miles ftom Glasgow, CRM's stomping ground, and has one of the oldest purpose built picture houses in Scotland, Campbelltown Picture House aka The Wee Picture House.
The architect, Albert Gardner, had been a student of architecture at The Glasgow School of Art.

I knew none of that until ten minutes ago. 😁

Unsurprising, as I haven't been inside a cinema for 30 years, which amply illustrates my interest in the medium.


Correct! :clap: :clap: :clap:

The cinema is an example of Art Nouveau architecture of which CRM was a leading figure and the Glasgow School of Art the main centre.

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My sub-clue related to the town’s namesake, the Royal Navy destroyer Campbeltown, which carried out a daring raid on the Nazi naval base at St Nazaire in WW2.

Over to you!

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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:52 pm

Looks a fine buiding from the photos. Not a place I am likely to visit though.

Now if you're visting B you might have a go at putting the P on the P.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Fri Aug 05, 2022 6:55 pm

A visit to B would more likely be to see the last resting place of an oft romanticised individual.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Fri Aug 05, 2022 8:53 pm

CharlesT wrote:A visit to B would more likely be to see the last resting place of an oft romanticised individual.

That would be Rob Roy MacGregor's grave at Balquhidder but as to the "P"s , I haven't a clue
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:42 pm

rohan wrote:
CharlesT wrote:A visit to B would more likely be to see the last resting place of an oft romanticised individual.

That would be Rob Roy MacGregor's grave at Balquhidder but as to the "P"s , I haven't a clue

So far, so good, keep searching and you'll find the "Ps"
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Fri Aug 05, 2022 10:39 pm

Is this about lifting the Puterach stone onto the Pudrac standing stone? (many variant spellings…)

If I am right, I think Rohan got it really, by locating Balquhidder (my computer keeps trying to change that to Baluchistan).

Also I am hoping to do a long walk in the Black Mountains tomorrow so won’t be able to post on WH.

So rohan should be the winner!

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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Fri Aug 05, 2022 11:30 pm

HalfManHalfTitanium wrote:Is this about lifting the Puterach stone onto the Pudrac standing stone? (many variant spellings…)

If I am right, I think Rohan got it really, by locating Balquhidder (my computer keeps trying to change that to Baluchistan).

Also I am hoping to do a long walk in the Black Mountains tomorrow so won’t be able to post on WH.

So rohan should be the winner!

Tim

You are correct, yet as Rohan found only the secondary objective which lead to the location of the primary, but admitted to not being able to find the primary, which you did, then you have answered the question and it is now your go. QED 😁

(I used to get told off for writing sentences like that in my papers 😽)
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Sat Aug 06, 2022 12:42 am

CharlesT wrote:
HalfManHalfTitanium wrote:Is this about lifting the Puterach stone onto the Pudrac standing stone? (many variant spellings…)

If I am right, I think Rohan got it really, by locating Balquhidder (my computer keeps trying to change that to Baluchistan).

Also I am hoping to do a long walk in the Black Mountains tomorrow so won’t be able to post on WH.

So rohan should be the winner!

Tim

You are correct, yet as Rohan found only the secondary objective which lead to the location of the primary, but admitted to not being able to find the primary, which you did, then you have answered the question and it is now your go. QED 😁

(I used to get told off for writing sentences like that in my papers 😽)


It’s a fair cop.

(I still get told off for writing sentences like that)

Ok here’s a quick one. RL, 72, CG. What’s the connection?

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