Is anyone going to say it? "That rabbit's dynamite!"
Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave
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#22It looks like the archway is filled with holes for candles. Lighting for meetings could not have been as trivial a task as it was for the researchers, who seem to have been able to toss down some cheap super bright LEDs(?).
An hour of good lighting in a subterranean cave in those days must have cost a fortune. (Per Jane Brox, anyway...)
https://www.amazon.com/Brilliant-Evolution-Artificial-Jane-B...
Re: Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave
#23And after publicizing the name and blasting the location onto the internet, the unique archeological site will be vandalized profusely and destroyed in no time at all in the name of selfies and social media points. At best, visitor access will be limited or prevented entirely.
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#24Video walking through the cave on Youtube is worth watching. https://youtu.be/maDTJsGgmD0
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#25It looks like the archway is filled with holes for candles. Lighting for meetings could not have been as trivial a task as it was for the researchers, who seem to have been able to toss down some cheap super bright LEDs(?). An hour of good lighting in a subterranean cave in those days must have cost a fortune. (Per Jane Brox, anyway...) https://www.amazon.com/Brilliant-Evolution-Artificial-Jane-B...
I'm curious if you recommend the linked book?
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#26Info via an archaeologist friend: while these caves are "said to be used by the Knights Templar", they probably date from the late 18th century at the earliest and have nothing to do with the medieval order.
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caynton_Caves
> One suggestion is that they were the result of quarrying during the 19th century, and were then turned by the landowners, the Legge family, into a grotto. It is alternatively speculated that the caverns are older, perhaps dating back at least to the 17th century, and some have associated them with the Knights Templar.
> The caverns are located beneath privately-owned woodland. Since at least the 1980s, they have sometimes been used for informal secret ceremonies and rituals, and vandalised, and were closed to the public in 2012 as a result. Later reopened, they were accessed by a photographer in 2017, and received widespread publicity.
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#27There are a shocking number of low-effort reddit-like replies here. Can we please not turn Hacker News into yet another blackhole of "joke" replies?
Downvote bad comments, upvote good ones. It doesn't take much to shoo them away, at least so far.
Yeah, that's what everyone used to say about "Digg-like" comments on Reddit.
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#28An interesting observation from the photos is that you can see evidence of light vandalization (mostly "names" carved into the rock). This implies these caves are part of some hyper local knowledge (at least as a party room for teenagers). - I wonder what the oldest vandalization is? - Could it be that there are many others in the area, which is why this hasn't been formally discovered before? How many times has it b…
About the "oldest vandalization" - I remember seeing an exhibition on Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius (79AD), and there was a bunch of examples of preserved graffiti. There seemed to be lots of "Mr Speaker was 'ere", even then! [edit: oh, article about it... https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/adrie... ) [edit 2: http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%2... - lots of examples of texts…
I can better that by a few thousand years. Egyption pyramids have graffiti tucked into corners, graffiti left by builders. I doubt there is any structure that doesnt have some improper mark left by someone during construction.
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#29They should have waited till April first to publish this, so people would think its a Monty Python reference :p
Re: Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave
#30There are a shocking number of low-effort reddit-like replies here. Can we please not turn Hacker News into yet another blackhole of "joke" replies?
Oh c'mon, that bit from Monty Python was the first thing I thought of too. There's nothing wrong with having a bit of fun every once in awhile.
Frankly, I found your post to be shockingly low-humour.