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    Your countryside

    Dec 16, 2021 4 minutes

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    Letter of the month

    ANCIENT PETROGLYPHS EXPLAINED

    The article by Chris Gee on walking in the Yorkshire moors (October 2021) with a very nice photo of cup and ring marked rocks suggests that the meaning of these carvings isn’t known. So I thought that I should bring my book entitled to your attention as it describes my studies that show these late-Neolithic motifs depicted the stars above them to

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