Meme from Sallymn
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linda_joyceIt is the year 2805. Archaeologists are sifting through the long buried remains of the village of Cellenyn buried with all the belongings of those long-gone occupants inside - just as it was when they lived there. All the belongings...
That building was your home.
What would they find?
The eruption of Mynydd Maen was neither so sudden nor so vicious as to make evacuation of the populace difficult but they had little time to pack. The mountain continued to blow out ash for decades slowly covering the villages on the Western flank with layer after layer of protective ash. The eruption ceased as unexpectedly as it started. Stories were told by walkers in the area of voices from under the ground and sometimes music but these were dismissed as the ravings of people high on the local hooch or trying for their five minutes of fame. Professor J. J Jones, greatest spokesman of his time said categorically that nothing would still be standing under the weight of the ash and dust. The lost villages of the Ebbw Valley largely degenerated into Myth until Dr. Daniel McKay started to study these myths and concluded that there had to be some truth behind them. He started an excavation at a point where most of the myths of sounds and music were centered. After a few weeks digging he came to a series of 16 inch thick stone walls set up in a squarish formation divided into separate rooms by other walls only one brick thick. Further excavation found the remains of furniture that had been squashed to near splinters by the weight of the ash. Under the remains of one collection of splinters were a number of boxes containing figurines, jugs, and what was known as nick nacks*. Analysis of the boxes indicate that they were made of a polycarbon material called plastic no longer in production as it has been declared Un-ecological by the Keepers of the Land. On comparison of the contents to those to be found in the V & A indicated that the age of the items spread over a 100 year period about 800 years previously. There was a similar collection on the middle and lowest floors but scattered around not in boxes items . It is now thought that this building might have been a small local museum and the boxes on the top floor were exhibits that had not yet been on show. On the middle floor was what proved to be, after considerable analysis, a primitive entertainment center with the controls still in the 'on' position. It is hypothisised that this machine continued to work for many decades until the ash finally silenced it and is the origin of the voices and music myths that led Dr. McKay to the village. Complete excavation of the village will take many more years but it will eventually lead us to know the final generation to live before the eco-disaster that drove the inhabitants of the land back to the level of hunter gatherers for a while before the advent of the Keepers and the new calender.
*These were thought to be produced to be given as gifts on the Feast of Old St. Nick who was said to have a knack of finding the worst presents ever, hence the name nick knack.
That building was your home.
What would they find?
The eruption of Mynydd Maen was neither so sudden nor so vicious as to make evacuation of the populace difficult but they had little time to pack. The mountain continued to blow out ash for decades slowly covering the villages on the Western flank with layer after layer of protective ash. The eruption ceased as unexpectedly as it started. Stories were told by walkers in the area of voices from under the ground and sometimes music but these were dismissed as the ravings of people high on the local hooch or trying for their five minutes of fame. Professor J. J Jones, greatest spokesman of his time said categorically that nothing would still be standing under the weight of the ash and dust. The lost villages of the Ebbw Valley largely degenerated into Myth until Dr. Daniel McKay started to study these myths and concluded that there had to be some truth behind them. He started an excavation at a point where most of the myths of sounds and music were centered. After a few weeks digging he came to a series of 16 inch thick stone walls set up in a squarish formation divided into separate rooms by other walls only one brick thick. Further excavation found the remains of furniture that had been squashed to near splinters by the weight of the ash. Under the remains of one collection of splinters were a number of boxes containing figurines, jugs, and what was known as nick nacks*. Analysis of the boxes indicate that they were made of a polycarbon material called plastic no longer in production as it has been declared Un-ecological by the Keepers of the Land. On comparison of the contents to those to be found in the V & A indicated that the age of the items spread over a 100 year period about 800 years previously. There was a similar collection on the middle and lowest floors but scattered around not in boxes items . It is now thought that this building might have been a small local museum and the boxes on the top floor were exhibits that had not yet been on show. On the middle floor was what proved to be, after considerable analysis, a primitive entertainment center with the controls still in the 'on' position. It is hypothisised that this machine continued to work for many decades until the ash finally silenced it and is the origin of the voices and music myths that led Dr. McKay to the village. Complete excavation of the village will take many more years but it will eventually lead us to know the final generation to live before the eco-disaster that drove the inhabitants of the land back to the level of hunter gatherers for a while before the advent of the Keepers and the new calender.
*These were thought to be produced to be given as gifts on the Feast of Old St. Nick who was said to have a knack of finding the worst presents ever, hence the name nick knack.
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Date: 2008-06-06 05:31 pm (UTC)I take it you are the at least 3rd generation in your house too. I go back to the 4th generation through the female line but Great Grandmother Thomas didn't live here it's just a couple of things Gran inherited.