The Rings of the Flood

Hello All

Luc once again thank you for the interesting posts as usual.

It is a very interesting  concept the strange rings called the Rings of Noah. There are many assumptions we can make of things like this. Local lore over time can romanticize the ordinary of items.

However looking through the eyes of an ex miner I see some things much more mundane than Celtic fertility rings or anchor points of Noah's arch. The following could be an explanation of some of them?

In 18th and 19th century small scale mines in Europe and United kingdom used a system of suspended rope tramways carrying buckets of ore down steep slopes in high mountain areas.

In the course of constructing these tramways anchor points, rings of iron or bronze would be used. Generally drilled into stone or large boulders to counteract the weight used when the bucket of ore is ferried down a suspended rope way. these rings vary in size and shape.

The last type I know of was used up until 1923 in Wales. unfortunately the system was not efficient for modern mines for haulage of ore. But simple one for small mines in the 18th and 19th centuries. The system of hauling minerals from high places was developed from an much earlier system used by the Romans.

Evidence of this system can still be seen in abandoned gold mines the Romans worked in the 2nd or 3rd century century in South Wales today. Manganese silver, Gold, Iron and Copper in early medieval workings this way in high mountains.

Perhaps this is a possible explanation of some of these mysterious ring in high mountain places?

Hardluck 


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Hi Hardluck

The rings that you have so kindly posted to us are ridged but are they all like that? On a mooring the rings are free to move but that dose not mean that these rings (posted by Luc) were not used for some sort of pulley system.

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Xavier

Interesting stuff all I imagine each ring has a unique story to tell if it could. A good idea though looking at the history of each place and perhaps a clue to thier use. Definitely makes one think.   

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Hi Hardluck very interesting stuff you got there and I'm sure glad we don't live back in that era they did have some rather strange way's back then Floating,drowning,burning I must say good bunch of Christians.

Luc this is quite a bit of info. You do have some great museums in France there is a cathedral in France that was build in the 1700 or 1800 (I'm not sure of the date) a sculpture of an astronaut is on it did you here about it?     

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Xavier

  Have to have this memory replaced it's starting to fail me. So any idea on how that got to be there? This is the kind of thing that stops me from sleeping at night "spooky" 

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