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Jonathan Hopkins
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| Dan Howard wrote: |
It is obvious that the entire archaeological community has been involved in a huge conspiracy for the last two centuries. It took someone with no scientific or archaeological understanding to work out that the Romans settled on Oak Island and traded with the natives. |
Obviously! 
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Matthew Amt
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I see no one asked the obvious question: How do you "find" THREE *intact* pointy things of any sort in a piece of lumber you are sawing up? Each one would involve, "Oh, crap, I hit something metal!" (Though on any decent sawmill something that small wouldn't even make a spark big enough to see as the blade sails through it.) Then laboriously chiseling several inches into the piece of wood you want to use to carve out the item. Rather than just spotting the cut-through shiny end (surrounded by rust and rot) and saying, "Huh, looks like a nail," and proceeding to build your fence.
So if none of these "crossbow bolts" has some kind of tool damage, and (as stated in the comments) show no signs of corrosion that would occur after a few decades or years in an oak tree, well...
Gads....
Matthew
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Roger Hooper
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If any of you wish to engage Hutton Pulitzer in debate, go to the Roman History Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/groups/romanhistory/ - and join the closed group. It's an interesting page. Pulitzer seems to pop in about once a week with an attempt to deceive the credulous. He gets little joy there beyond what a troll receives.
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Jonathan Hopkins
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Pulitzer doesn't visit this group, but it is a good one for discussing the Oak Island sword and other far-fetched pseudo-archaeology claims:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/149844915349213/
I like this image recently posted to the group:
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Roger Hooper
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It looks like the Roman History Facebook Page administrators finally kicked Hutton Pulitzer out of the group. He was back this morning with some more stuff about the crossbow bolts, but his entry - actually all his entries have now disappeared.
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Mark Griffin
Location: The Welsh Marches, in the hills above Newtown, Powys. Joined: 28 Dec 2006
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I like it how he is described as a 'former' tv personality. Do you have some kind of union or guild in the US for minor tv figures? Can their status be revoked? Is there some kind of embarrassing ceremony where his personality status is stripped away and he is exiled?
Currently working on projects ranging from Elizabethan pageants to a WW1 Tank, Victorian fairgrounds 1066 events and more. Oh and we joust loads!.. We run over 250 events for English Heritage each year plus many others for Historic Royal Palaces, Historic Scotland, the National Trust and more. If you live in the UK and are interested in working for us just drop us a line with a cv.
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Matthew Amt
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| Mark Griffin wrote: | | I like it how he is described as a 'former' tv personality. Do you have some kind of union or guild in the US for minor tv figures? Can their status be revoked? Is there some kind of embarrassing ceremony where his personality status is stripped away and he is exiled? |
Unfortunately, in his business, "No publicity is bad."...
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This is a standard topic
Anyone care to comment on these?