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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social

Authors of this 1974 pamphlet have no time whatsoever for any of your unempirical, new age, hippy bullshit

Cover of Cornwall Archaeological Society Field Guide 2, The Principal Antiquities of the Lands End District, by Charles Thomas and P.A.S. Pool, Price 20p. Picture of the hooped standing stone Men-an-Tol. Paragraph about stone circles emphasising that archaeology cannot answer questions about their function:
aug 29, 2025, 8:50 am • 10 1

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social

My favourite folklore drawer in the world is unempirical hippy bullshit from the 1970s and 1980s alongside 1950s unempirical bullshit written by people who went to Oxford and pamphlets raging against both.

aug 29, 2025, 9:16 am • 4 0 • view
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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social

But did he switch sides to cold empiricism between the BA and the MA, or did they strip him of the MA when he started raving about "The Sacrifice"?

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