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Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave

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Re: Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave

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Post by noir_lord »

Fifer82 wrote: post #40

Hey by the way, you know Andrew Carnegie? Your Hall, and Universities, and public libraries? He was a very rich man back in the day, Rockerfeller would send him cardboard vests as an insult to his meagre past as a gift, and Andrew would send back bottles of whiskey to equal the insult (he was T-Total). He purchased "The Glen", an area of Land to be used by the public and gifted to his home town. As a child, my friend…

> By the time someone else finds this, the skeleton will baffle them.

If you ever feel the need to do that make sure you take a couple of dozen devices with you ranging from say the 1940's up to current tech.

You'll give some future historian conniptions.

Re: Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave

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Post by Fifer82 »

noir_lord wrote: post #41
Fifer82 wrote: post #40

Hey by the way, you know Andrew Carnegie? Your Hall, and Universities, and public libraries? He was a very rich man back in the day, Rockerfeller would send him cardboard vests as an insult to his meagre past as a gift, and Andrew would send back bottles of whiskey to equal the insult (he was T-Total). He purchased "The Glen", an area of Land to be used by the public and gifted to his home town. As a child, my friend…

> By the time someone else finds this, the skeleton will baffle them. If you ever feel the need to do that make sure you take a couple of dozen devices with you ranging from say the 1940's up to current tech. You'll give some future historian conniptions.

We really have put some drunken thought into it over the years! A collection of random electronics spanned over generations would cause some wrinkled brows for sure.

Re: Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave

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Post by exclusiv »

zeveb wrote: post #30
AlexB138 wrote: post #16

There 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.

Also - sometimes it's refreshing to see an interesting post and not have to see replies about how someone is an expert at estimating the weight of rabbits based on the size of their hole. Or read about "orders of magnitude" of this or "straw-man" that.

Re: Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave

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Post by brudgers »

zeveb wrote: post #30
AlexB138 wrote: post #16

There 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.

I thought of Foucault's Pendulum.

Re: Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave

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Post by manicminer »

Not a discovery. Not a rabbit hole. I grew up 2 miles from the caves/temple and went down the hole pictured many times. There's existing stuff about them online if you Google - not sure why the media is depicting this as a discovery - it's not!

Not sure if the Templar stuff is correct or not - I've seen nothing to corroborate this. Having been in the temple - it certainly seems very old.

The entrance is a hole carved out of the sandstone that you have to squeeze down into - it may look like a rabbit hole but it's not.

Lots of local kids & others know about it and use it as a place to hang out and drink and I'm pretty sure it's used for some sort of New Age rituals judging by the number of candles and detritus that are sometimes in there.

It's a hard place to find if you don't know about it. On private land - completely hidden and it's never really been publicised... until now.

Re: Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave

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Post by iamben »

pera wrote: post #6
frikk wrote: post #3

An 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…

> In 2012, it was reported that the owners of the caves closed them to people wanting to visit after they found they had been filled with candles, graffiti and rubbish. The entrance to the caves was sealed up in attempt to keep the trespassers at bay. http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2017/03/07/in-pictures-se...

I posted the link to this (as in the original article everyone is referencing) hours ago, before the BBC post linked here. One of those times HN suffers if you post something that doesn't have a linkbait headline.

Re: Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave

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Post by 0xADEADBEE »

How strange to see this atop Hacker News! I used to live in the nearby city and have been to these caves many times since being shown them around 2014 (I'm not sure why they're saying it was sealed up - it has been perfectly accessible via the 'rabbit hole' in the picture since that time at least, if you didn't mind a few spiders!).

I would conjecture that very few locals know about it - it really isn't something you'd find unless you knew what you were looking for and the few conversations I have had about it with people in the surrounding towns and villages frequently yield blank looks; the creation of a Wikipedia page for the caves only yesterday [1] also supports this hypothesis. That said, the inside is littered with cigarette butts and tea lights, so I am far from alone in knowing of its existence.

As for its purpose, I've always assumed it was some priest hole [2] variant, but have no evidence to support that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caynton_Caves&act...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest_hole

Re: Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave

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Post by kristopolous »

manicminer wrote: post #45

Not a discovery. Not a rabbit hole. I grew up 2 miles from the caves/temple and went down the hole pictured many times. There's existing stuff about them online if you Google - not sure why the media is depicting this as a discovery - it's not! Not sure if the Templar stuff is correct or not - I've seen nothing to corroborate this. Having been in the temple - it certainly seems very old. The entrance is a hole carved…

Teenagers and children seem to find everything. We may make some significant archeological discoveries with a couple cheap surveys.

Re: Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave

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Post by perseusprime11 »

manicminer wrote: post #45

Not a discovery. Not a rabbit hole. I grew up 2 miles from the caves/temple and went down the hole pictured many times. There's existing stuff about them online if you Google - not sure why the media is depicting this as a discovery - it's not! Not sure if the Templar stuff is correct or not - I've seen nothing to corroborate this. Having been in the temple - it certainly seems very old. The entrance is a hole carved…

Basically fake news, right?
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