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Benachally / Image by tiompan |
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| Lovely scenery |
Posted by CARL 19 Jun 13ce |
Bitton / Fieldnotes by CARL |
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| If I am allowed to go into rambling folklore mode, Keynsham is supposed to be named after St Keyna, and she cruelly turned a load of snakes to stone - hence the ammonites in the area. Extra ammonite=keynsham connection there. |
Posted by Rhiannon18 Jun 13ce |
Bitton / Fieldnotes by CARL |
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Didn't know about the ammonites. As for taking the family out for daytrips to Chippenham and Keynsham - I know how to treat a girl to a good time out! |
Posted by CARL 18 Jun 13ce |
Bitton / Fieldnotes by CARL |
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| There's definitely some in the walls at Kelston, just down the road. |
Posted by Rhiannon 18 Jun 13ce |
Bitton / Fieldnotes by CARL |
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| Carl you should have checked round for ammonites in Keynsham, they are supposed to be found in the walls of the cottages. Maybe, just maybe the ammonite from Stoney Littleton came from here..... |
Posted by moss18 Jun 13ce |
Bitton / Fieldnotes by CARL |
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| Wow Carl you're really visiting the beautiful towns of the south west. First Chippenham and now Keynsham :) |
Posted by Rhiannon 18 Jun 13ce |
Coldrum / Image by ginger tt |
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| I would highly recommend that. Lovely spot |
Posted by ginger tt18 Jun 13ce |
Coldrum / Image by ginger tt |
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| I sooooooooooo want to visit this site. One day.... |
Posted by CARL 18 Jun 13ce |
Maen Llia / Fieldnotes by CARL |
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| Sadly this has happened to the Maen Llia quite a lot over the years, Carl. To be honest I'd suggest from experience that any site beside a reasonably well used road in South Wales is vulnerable and we shouldn't be surprised. Draw your own conclusions, some people are just too far gone to be helped. |
Posted by GLADMAN17 Jun 13ce |
Cloch More / Image by drewbhoy |
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| They seem sure, The back stone, not quite pictured in this pic, would have made a wonderful recumbent. Tyrebagger is to the east. |
Posted by drewbhoy17 Jun 13ce |
Maen Llia / Fieldnotes by CARL |
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Astonishing and shocking. I suggest if the culprit is found, we don't wipe the smile off their face, but use their face to wipe the smile off the stone. It would be poetic justice. Good for you reporting it. |
Posted by Rhiannon 17 Jun 13ce |
Tapnell Down / Image by A R Cane |
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I love this! Looks so well cared for. Or is it just well-grazed? ;) G x |
Posted by goffik17 Jun 13ce |
Castle Old Fort / Image by baza |
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How many times have we seen signs like that? :( |
Posted by CARL 17 Jun 13ce |
The Devil's Punchbowl / Image by A R Cane |
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| Ha! Sorry for the delay. Mrs C has an arts commission for a Macmillan Cancer Unit at Runcorn Hospital. The main piece is a large 5m wide x 2.5m high enamelled illustration divided into 5 separate panels. AJ Wells is the factory where we were working. They do most of the signage for London Underground, but they also work with a lot of artists on art installations, etc. Worth getting in touch with them as they're very helpful and friendly! |
Posted by A R Cane16 Jun 13ce |
Cloch More / Image by drewbhoy |
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| Natural feature? Very odd. Are they sure? |
Posted by GLADMAN 16 Jun 13ce |
The Devil's Punchbowl / Image by A R Cane |
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| Well I totally love enamelled stuff, I've done a bit of it myself. I wish I'd got into doing something large scale. What were you doing? |
Posted by Rhiannon 14 Jun 13ce |
The Devil's Punchbowl / Image by A R Cane |
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| It feels like a small, manageable, self-contained country! We were over there working in an enamelling factory again in Newport for 9 days and got very lucky with the weather over the weekend. I'd thoroughly recommend it for a prehistoric tour as most things are within minutes of each other, though not many stones it has to be said. |
Posted by A R Cane 14 Jun 13ce |
The Devil's Punchbowl / Image by A R Cane |
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| Hopefully with a cup of tea from a thermos flask sitting on the dashboard and steaming up the windscreen. I'll get over there one day. I want to see if it matches what's in my imagination. Islands are always a bit unusual. The light in your photos makes the place look rather surreal. |
Posted by Rhiannon 14 Jun 13ce |
The Devil's Punchbowl / Image by A R Cane |
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| Yes, just about! On the other side of the road is a 'view point' looking down over Sandown, Shanklin and the English Channel. A place where old people drive to in their cars on Sundays and sit and read the newspaper oblivious of their glorious surroundings! Love it! |
Posted by A R Cane 14 Jun 13ce |
Grime's Graves / Fieldnotes by ruskus |
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Yeah, luckily I live quite nearby. Unluckily for me, that means I'm so far from so much else that's out there (!). "One day"? The way you're getting 'round these lovely sites, Carl, I feel that may be soon...... (by the way, I'm a Carl too. Someone's got to be...) |
Posted by ruskus 14 Jun 13ce |
Grime's Graves / Fieldnotes by ruskus |
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Grimes Graves is in my 'top 10' sites to visit. One day................ |
Posted by CARL 13 Jun 13ce |
The Devil's Punchbowl / Image by A R Cane |
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| It certainly looks like a lovely spot. And the other photo has the sea? (or maybe everywhere has the sea on the IoW). |
Posted by Rhiannon 13 Jun 13ce |
The Devil's Punchbowl / Image by A R Cane |
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| Great stuff, that's what I like best about TMA: you add a site, Rhiannon provides folkore and someone goes and gets us some pictures. Yay. |
Posted by thesweetcheat13 Jun 13ce |
The Longstone of Mottistone / Image by A R Cane |
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| Oh yeah, that's great. |
Posted by thesweetcheat 13 Jun 13ce |
The Twelve Apostles of Hollywood / Image by ruskus |
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I remember visiting the Twelve Apostles feeling such a sense of...'disappointment' is too strong a word, but the circle has a very difficult setting. There seems little in the immediate landscape to link in with....as you say, the hedges, roads, and not too far away human activity distracts, when it's naturally a site where you struggle to capture the feel of how it once may have been. Trying to photograph it all is impossible. My pictures are all 'bits & pieces', and any taken of the complete circle make it appear as a random field with a few dots and blobs randomly sitting there. Maybe I'm being too negative. Maybe I need to get back there and re-evaluate! |
Posted by ruskus 13 Jun 13ce |
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