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Title: What's the oldest thing?
Post by: Matt2matt2002 on October 25, 2013, 05:22:59 PM: What's the oldest thing you have every leaned your Thorn against?
(Click stands and bamboo poles allowed)

Here's my effort
The Maiden Stone, Aberdeenshire UK

9th century pink granite Pictish cross / slab.

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/7i11MaKVAOpuLvjFdKpQ2ZKkjY_uBnqGrW_DH7QUtyw=w305-h228-p-no)

Close up shows a mirror, comb and mammoth / elephant creature carved into the granite

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ihRgLF4UGVd-f9Vnv-H57OLlXVCYH8JuOIdTmsiGLQE=w172-h228-p-no)

Matt
Title: Re: What's the oldest thing?
Post by: jags on October 25, 2013, 05:35:52 PM: Newgrange ;)
Title: Re: What's the oldest thing?
Post by: Danneaux on October 25, 2013, 07:47:43 PM: Drat!

Living in 'Merka, I don't think we have any manmade structures old enough to compete!

I have to go with natural granite outcroppings as "oldest", I guess. :-\ Either that or "dirt". :)

Best,

Dan. (...who sure enjoyed the photos)
Title: Re: What's the oldest thing?
Post by: Matt2matt2002 on October 25, 2013, 08:05:58 PM: Thanks Dan. I guess I should have qualified my question with 'man-made'

There are dozens of these things around these parts.

Here's a couple more of the same structure.

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/zkOtKWJNv6bZIRPV4HKbWO-I_1bqu4ZTTB9Ma6nDj6w=w304-h228-p-no)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vy-6qih3Fij_djmojSSUh1hOMN16FH7t0kq6f2CfRks=w171-h228-p-no)

I find it very humbling to stand next to something like this, knowing it has been there for hundreds of years and will be there well after we have all gone.

Matt

On a lighter note. May I tag on a question here?

Having set up my posting I usually press Preview - take a look at my effort - and then Post
For the last few weeks I am never able to connect to the Preview screen. I wait a few minutes and then press Post and it goes ahead.
Problem my end or....?
Title: Re: What's the oldest thing?
Post by: Danneaux on October 25, 2013, 08:20:44 PM: Quote
For the last few weeks I am never able to connect to the Preview screen...
Ehhh...dunno, Matt. I never use Preview, so I will check it out on this post and see.
<later>
Yep! Works fine! I played around a bit and I do see the popup blockers in some browsers seem to see Preview as a pop-up and block it unless/until you allow it. There might have been a change if you've updated your browser or the add-ons/extensions used with it. I'd check there first and see.

Oh! Here's another thought: I see you've embedded the photos above using html tags. Before, you attached photos. Perhaps the change in Preview working or not is due to where the photos are stored. I can see a lag occurring when the html tags are searched for and linked during composition. Try it the other way (as an attachment) and see if it makes a difference.

Best,

Dan.
Title: Re: What's the oldest thing?
Post by: Matt2matt2002 on October 25, 2013, 08:56:39 PM: This one is from my hard drive
Previous ones from Google +

Nope = didn't work
I will look at other settings my end.

Matt
Title: Re: What's the oldest thing?
Post by: Danneaux on October 25, 2013, 09:09:48 PM: Matt,

One thing that's "all right" is your photos; enjoying them greatly!

All the best,

Dan.
Title: Re: What's the oldest thing?
Post by: Andre Jute on October 25, 2013, 09:58:14 PM: Quote from: Matt2matt2002 on October 25, 2013, 08:56:39 PM
This one is from my hard drive
Previous ones from Google +

Nope = didn't work
I will look at other settings my end.

A not uncommon problem in the higher reaches of weird science. See for instance THE GREAT SCIENTIFIC LEPRECHAUN HUNT at http://soupandnuts.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/the-great-scientific-leprechaun-hunt/
Title: Re: What's the oldest thing?
Post by: il padrone on October 26, 2013, 12:49:42 AM: Parked the bike in the Lucca YHA, Ostello San Frediano - 6th century convent of the Basilica San Frediano, rebuilt in the 1200s

(http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/04/34/7f/0c/ostello-san-frediano.jpg)
(Not my photo)

Then there was the Nuraghe Palmavera near Alghero in Sardinia. Fenced so we could not actually lean the bikes against it, but this village complex was built in about the 14th century BC ~3,300 years ago :o.

(http://i1327.photobucket.com/albums/u666/petesig26/Italia%20Tour%202013/Riding%20the%20Tyrrhenian%20Islands/IMG_0731_zpseb2e6b83.jpg) (http://s1327.photobucket.com/user/petesig26/media/Italia%20Tour%202013/Riding%20the%20Tyrrhenian%20Islands/IMG_0731_zpseb2e6b83.jpg.html)
Title: Re: What's the oldest thing?
Post by: FrogPrince on October 26, 2013, 03:45:45 PM: Hadrian's Wall ....perhaps not the oldest but certainly one of the most picturesque :)
Title: Re: What's the oldest thing?
Post by: jags on October 26, 2013, 04:25:20 PM: won't argue with that class photo.
Title: Re: What's the oldest thing?
Post by: peter jenkins on October 27, 2013, 08:27:46 AM: (http://i572.photobucket.com/albums/ss167/berlioz_bucket/Thorn/DSCN0786_zps84445063.jpg)

O.K. "Founded 520 AD" probably doesn't mean it's still the original building, but hey!

Cheers,

pj

[html image tag fixed by Dan]
Title: Re: What's the oldest thing?
Post by: peter jenkins on October 27, 2013, 08:30:24 AM: Well... that was a disappointment.

(http://s572.photobucket.com/user/berlioz_bucket/media/Thorn/DSCN0786_zps84445063.jpg.html?sort=3&o=11)
Title: Re: What's the oldest thing?
Post by: il padrone on October 27, 2013, 09:07:10 AM: You need to copy the img code on the right side of the Photobucket page, then paste that in your post, but without img tags.

;)
Title: Re: What's the oldest thing?
Post by: jags on October 27, 2013, 12:27:47 PM: great photo peter.looks like there was a good bricki on that job. ;)
Title: Re: What's the oldest thing?
Post by: moodymac on November 05, 2013, 05:03:29 PM: Don't know how old is was, but the scariest thorn photo I've seen was a Dan posting his beauty standing seemingly unsupported on a very narrow bridge over a fast moving river. Cannot remember which posting it was in.

Tom
Title: Re: What's the oldest thing?
Post by: Danneaux on November 05, 2013, 05:07:57 PM: Quote
...the scariest thorn photo I've seen was a Dan posting his beauty standing seemingly unsupported on a very narrow bridge over a fast moving river.
Was it this one, Tom?
http://www.thorncycles.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=3896.msg17564#msg17564

Hardest part was getting off the bike to take the photo! I'm flat-footed and generally have much better balance on the bike than off it!

;D

Credit the Click-Stand for keeping the lot upright. ;)

Best,

Dan.
Title: Re: What's the oldest thing?
Post by: moodymac on November 05, 2013, 05:34:34 PM: Yep that is the one! If that was me, I have an idea that me, the bike, and the click stand would have gone for a swim! Great photo.

Tom