Re: Hey little schoolgirl


Tom McDonald wrote:
> Peter Alaca wrote:
> > _Schoolgirl finds Bronze Age tool in playground_
> >
> > Second class pupil at St Brigid's National School
> > in Greystones (co. Wicklow, Ireland), Laoise
> > Mangan (9), in the summer months of last year,
> > she discovered an odd looking stone on the ground
> > while walking in the school yard. She brought the
> > stone into her then teacher, Mr Martin Dodd, who,
> > luckily, just happened to have a degree in
> > Archaeology. Mr Dodd forwarded it to an
> > acquaintance of his, Dr Muiris O'Sullivan, at the
> > Department of Archaeology in U.C.D.
> > To Laoise's surprise, the school received word
> > shortly before Christmas that the stone dated from
> > the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age (2000 BCE),
> > and was most probably used as a tool for scraping
> > meat from animal hides.
> >
> > Laoise is reportedly thrilled with her find, which
> > has now been dubbed, 'Laoise's special stone' by
> > teachers at St Brigid's. "Can you imagine it? It
> > was so lucky. If she had brought it in to any other
> > teacher they probably would have just thrown it
> > away," said Mary Beausang, a teacher at St.
> > Brigid's. "Now we have dozens of pupils bringing stones in
> > from the yard to Mr Dodd for examination...and
> > we will always check with him before we ask
> > them to put them back in the yard!" she said.
> >
> > Source: Bray People (19 January 2006)
> > via Archaeo News 21 January 2006
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Isn't that wonderfull? A whole school at once
> > devoted to archaeology.
> >
>
> But look at all the names needed to tell the story. Could never
> happen here, what with the laws and all.
>
> Inger Eleanora Johansson will not be amused.
>
> --
> Language Criminal

I suspect they were just showing off. As for IEJ, she says, once an
abuser, always an abuser, thereby making the kids and their discovery
tainted by criminality. Who knows, someone may have just left the stone
there, and there goes the girl and swiped it off the ground like a
common or gardon theif. Tut-tut.

##minty..

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    ... Second class pupil at St Brigid's National School ... she discovered an odd looking stone on the ground ... stone into her then teacher, Mr Martin Dodd, who, ... Department of Archaeology in U.C.D. ...
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    ... Second class pupil at St Brigid's National School ... in Greystones, Laoise ... she discovered an odd looking stone on the ground ... Department of Archaeology in U.C.D. ...
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  • Re: Hey little schoolgirl
    ... Second class pupil at St Brigid's National School ... she discovered an odd looking stone on the ground ... stone into her then teacher, Mr Martin Dodd, who, ... Department of Archaeology in U.C.D. ...
    (sci.archaeology)