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Orkney — News |
'Orkney Held Me Close' Exhibition by Nicki MacRae.Because she's too modest to post it herself... ;) "‘Orkney Held Me Close’ is an exhibition of work created following my stay on Orkney in February 2011. I travelled to study the megalithic remains as part of my ongoing work, painting the ancient places of the UK - however Orkney enchanted me and inspired me into a hugely prolific period and I created a large body of work. I am delighted to have the chance to show a selection of paintings, landscapes and abstracts, at For Arts Sake, Kirkwall." https://www.facebook.com/events/298017696921790/ Also: "9th March - 10th April 2012 'Orkney Held Me Close' an exhibition of landscape and abstract paintings, For Arts Sake Gallery, above the VAO, 6 Bridge Street, Kirkwall, Orkney. Monday to Friday 10am – 4pm, Saturday 10am – 2pm." http://www.nicki-paints.co.uk/ Looks fab. I'd be there like a shot if it were at all possible... :) G x |
Posted by goffik9th February 2012ce |
Hailes Wood Camp (Hillfort) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
       
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Posted by thesweetcheat8th February 2012ce |
Hailes Wood Camp (Hillfort) — Miscellaneous |
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Pastscape description: The earthwork in Hailes Wood is on a spur of the Cotswold escarpment with steep natural slopes to the west, and more gentle slopes to N and S. The ground rises steadily to the east, and on this side the defence is strongest with a bank up to 2.3m in height above a ditch which is 1.5m deep. On the south side a ditch and slight outer bank is in use as a path, except where it turns at the SW corner to end on the natural slope. The SW approach is also defended by two additional banks between the outer ditch and the level area above it, which has been cut off from the rest of the interior by a ditch up to 1.8m deep. The total area enclosed is 1 1/2-2 acres. Modern paths run through the earthwork, but the entrance near the SE corner may be original. |
Posted by thesweetcheat 8th February 2012ce |
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Mick Aston quits time team...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/9068025/Mick-Aston-quits-Time-Team-after-producers-hire-former-model-co-presenter.html I'm sure most of you have read about this... |
Posted by TheStandingStone8th February 2012ce |
The Hellstone (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech) — Fieldnotes |
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The best place to park for this site is the layby by the Farm on Portisham Hill, next to the farm at SY601879. The path leading from the style at the layby across the field will lead you directly to the Hellstone. After the first field you need to walk on the other side of the hedge, and then change back again for the third field to be on the correct side for the style and to avoid the electric fence. This is all going to change soon though as I met the farmer who told me they are soon to change the path leading to the Hellstone. This lay by is also the perfect place to leave the car to walk to Hampton Down opposite, and just back along The Valley of the Stones and if you have time why not continue on past the valley of the Stones off Coombe Road and then take the right hand turn onto Bishop's Road. The track to The Grey Mare and her Colts and Kingston Russell is just off another right turn (the next one you come to on Bishops Road) onto a farm track. |
Posted by texlahoma8th February 2012ce |
Rosemorran (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images |
 
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Posted by bladup7th February 2012ce |
The Hellstone (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech) — Images |
    
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Posted by texlahoma 7th February 2012ce |
Pike Low (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images |
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Posted by juamei7th February 2012ce |
Pike Low (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Fieldnotes |
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[visited 29/1/12] What on earth happened at the top of this hill? I bet 300 years ago there was a ridge, with a nice big barrow and a track next to it. Now there's a dirty gash of a road, a weird standing stone and what looks like the remains of a quarry. The stone, to me, looks modern, way too square for my tastes anyway. I couldn't even make out the outline of the barrow, if this was done by "excavators" they really worked this one over. If it is a quarry, the stone is probably from that phase of destruction. Access is a short walk from a layby either side of the ridge. Once I got close I couldn't even be bothered to get into the field so just climbed the 3m verge of the road to get moderately close. [edit] PS Good views though. |
Posted by juamei 7th February 2012ce |
Ginclough (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images |
  
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Posted by juamei 7th February 2012ce |
Ginclough (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Fieldnotes |
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[visited 29/1/12] This is to all intents and purposes a boulder by the side of a busy road with some views. If the road and the wall weren't here, it would still be a boulder, but at least you'd get some lovely views and nice surroundings. Is it Prehistoric though? Its certainly a different shape and feel to the Murder Stone and Whaley Bridge stone less than 5 miles away. With a different positioning in the landscape too. However, could quite easily be a waymarker for the track the main road turned into. Access is for the stupid. There is no public parking in Ginclough, so you either have a longish walk (rubbish reward ratio), perch on the side of a busy fast road or do what I did and reverse into the track next to the stone from the main road. The benefit of which means no stiles and a 10 second walk. |
Posted by juamei 7th February 2012ce |
Rosemorran (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Fieldnotes |
| At the site the wall curves round in a semi circle and in it ( the wall ) are two 9 footers (see photos) and two 6 footers, i couldn't help but imagine the wall not been there and just the stones on what would seem to be the circumference of a circle, it may be nothing, but i think it's a strange site. |
Posted by bladup 7th February 2012ce |
Hailes Wood Camp (Hillfort) — Images |
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Posted by thesweetcheat 6th February 2012ce |
Beckbury (Hillfort) — Images |
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Posted by thesweetcheat 6th February 2012ce |
Higher Ridgegate (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Fieldnotes |
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Southeast of Macclesfield is a small village called Langley, head east through the village until you get to a pub called the Leathers Smithy, opposite the Ridgegate reservoir, turn left immediately after the pub and continue up hill until you get to a small 3 space carpark. Now back track down the lane and the stone is in the field to your right.. The stone is about four and a half foot tall, not tall, but a pretty standard height in Cheshire. It is seemingly unworked in any way, there are no holes for gates and such. The stone is about a mile south south east of Toothills barrow and stands on the edge of a small ridge and seems to ring true to me, in placing at least. Due to thick cold fog the views were unseen today but on a clearer day would be "quite good". |
Posted by postman6th February 2012ce |
Higher Ridgegate (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images |
   
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Posted by postman 6th February 2012ce |
The Nine Stones of Winterbourne Abbas (Stone Circle) — Images |
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Posted by texlahoma 6th February 2012ce |
The Grey Mare & Her Colts (Long Barrow) — Images |
    
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Posted by texlahoma 6th February 2012ce |
The Grey Mare & Her Colts (Long Barrow) — Fieldnotes |
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English Heritage have now helpfully nailed a very small disk with their logo on to a fence post as you take the bridleway towards the Grey Mare & Her Colts and Kingston Russell stone circle. This I presume in case you don't notice the very large sign warning that the other trackway from the road leads to private property. Today the ground is frozen solid and the long grooves left by the farm vehicles and cattle are frozen solid. It begins to lightly snow as we reach the long barrow. This is a place well worth seeing, the structure of the site may no longer be intact, slightly ruinous even but still very much here within the landscape, and a truly amazing place it is! |
Posted by texlahoma 6th February 2012ce |
Kingston Russell (Stone Circle) — Fieldnotes |
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Maybe it's just the time of year but Kingston Russell seems much more visible on the approach from The Grey Mare & Her Colts than last time I was here, perhaps when the tree leaves , and hedges grow back and the grass is longer it would be as I remember it. There was no sign of the sign here anymore either, a circle without the sign, even better! Along with Hampton Down what I noticed most on this trip was the other ancient monuments all in view from each of these sites, their interconnectedness in the landscape. You might argue that this is because a lot of the monuments are on hills but the view between them only really opens up within the circles themselves. From standing in the center of Kingston Russell I have a view all the way across to Abbotsbury, Golden Cap, Seatown and Lyme Regis. |
Posted by texlahoma 6th February 2012ce |
Kingston Russell (Stone Circle) — Images |
   
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Posted by texlahoma 6th February 2012ce |
Hampton Down (Stone Circle) — Images |
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Posted by texlahoma 6th February 2012ce |
Black Down Barrow Cemetery — Images |
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Posted by texlahoma 6th February 2012ce |
Hampton Down (Stone Circle) — Fieldnotes |
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This must be one of the very best locations for a Stone Circle. The view across to Chesil Beach is very clear, as are Chapel Hill Abbotsbury and The Hellstone seen here and on the walk all the way down to the Portesham Hill Road, as well as Black Down Barrow Cemetery As said previously the condition of the circle itself is quite sad, although in recent years it does seem that the site is being maintained better than perhaps it has been in the past. Given that though this is a splendid place to have to yourself for a while, a stone circle with an incredible view on the crest of a Dorset Hill. |
Posted by texlahoma 6th February 2012ce |
Sutton Hall (Cairn(s)) — Fieldnotes |
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Just south of Macclesfield, near the outskirt village of Sutton lane Ends is this cairn, you'll probably need a map to find it, even though it's visible from the road, and on Google street view. I parked on the side of the icey road and set off across the field, for the first time today I was'nt trespassing but following a designated public path. Blyeck, but that didn't last long as I was forced into the field next door to get to the cairn. This is one big cairn, I would have been here ages ago had I known of it, not having enough money to get to Wales has it's advantages. Around 1877 it was dug into, a trench twelve feet long, six feet wide and eight feet deep revealing nothing but boulders, some split by fire. Again it was mutilated in the name of science by James Forde-Johnston of Manchester University in 1962 finding no primary burial but several secondary cremations. The big black water trough on top is quite unnecessary, and an awful blot on what is a mighty work of old, Sutton Hall farm....Ggggrrrrrrrr. As I approached the cairn the sheep legged it, all except one, Tripod was his name (mine) and he guarded the cairn well, but then even he yielded to me. Then as I got closer and the cairns size became apparent it looked like it could be big enough to have a chamber in it somewhere, but alas it is not so. The snow and the fog makes it look cold but i'm all togged up and impervious to such things, in time the fog lifts slightly enough to see the outline of hills, outliers of the Peak. |
Posted by postman 6th February 2012ce |
Hampton Down (Stone Circle) — Images |
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Posted by texlahoma 6th February 2012ce |
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