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Lanke Mountain, also known as Shishi ("Stone Room") Mountain or Shiqiao ("Stone Bridge") Mountain, is a hill located 10 km (6.2 mi) southeast of Quzhou city centre in Zhejiang, beside Wuxi River. The hilltop is 164 metres above sea level. The top of the hill features a rock formation in the form of a bridge.
Porcellanite layer is the black rock above the hammer, and below the brown layer higher up the slope at Tievebulliagh. Tievebulliagh is formed from a volcanic plug, the intense heat generated by molten basalt has given rise to the formation of a durable flint, porcellanite, which is found at the foot of the eastern scree slope of the mountain. [2]
It is an adaptation of the legend of Yan Jian, who split the mountain to save his mother. The origins of the story of Liu Chenxiang splitting the mountain to save his mother can be traced back to the 32nd year of the Ming dynasty's Jiajing period, specifically in the Puxian opera Prince Liu Xi Chenxiang. Throughout the generations, the story of ...
Golden axe, a woodcutter accidentally dropped his axe into a river and sat down to weep. Hermes dived into the water and returned with a golden axe. Hermes asked if this is his axe, but the woodcutter said it was not. (Greek folklore) Silver axe, the woodcutter returned the same answer when a silver axe was brought to the surface by Hermes ...
Polished stone axe Pike of Stickle on the left, from the summit cairn of Pike of Blisco.The central scree run has produced many rough-out axes. Harrison Stickle, the highest of the Langdale Pikes, in the right centre of the group Neolithic stone axe from Langdale with well preserved handle, found at Ehenside Tarn near the Cumbrian coast (now in the British Museum [a])
A Neolithic stone axe from Cumbria, now in the British Museum. [2] Fell was interested in the analysis of individual axes. [3] In 1949 she worked on Grahame Clark's excavations at the Star Carr Mesolithic site in Yorkshire. Around the same time she began studying the Langdale axe industry in Cumbria, the project for which she is perhaps best ...
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Hew is a general term meaning to strike or blow with a tool such as an axe or sword; to chop or gash, and is used in warfare, stone and woodcutting, and coal and salt mining in this sense. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Hewing wood is to shape the wood with a sharp instrument such as an axe, [ 3 ] specifically flattening one or more sides of a log.