Reindeer at Eggerness

Eggerness 2

Image by rockartuk

Jane Dec 19, 2009 16:59:30

While looking for a rock arty idea for an element in a painting wot I am making at the mo, I stumbled across the remarkable site of Eggerness and the breathtaking photos of it on this very site. Animal carvings! Would you Adam and Eve it! In Britain!!!!

As it happens the animal carvings designs don't 'fit' in my composition, but I thought I'd drawn everyone's attention to it
1. in case, like me, they'd missed Eggerness and
2. cos it's nearly X-mass and those animals are surely reindeer?
J
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dodge one Dec 19, 2009 17:31:05

Replying to Jane

Hi Jane, not to presume here, but you may find some inspiration from a famous herd called the 'White Deer of Mallow'
This is a herd of white deer in Mallow Ireland that descend from a pair of stags that your own Queen Elizabeth the 1st gave to a landowner there over 400 years ago.
Do you know about them?

moss Dec 19, 2009 21:16:16

Replying to Jane

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/index.html

The panel of four horses is gorgeous in this extraodinarily richly decorated cave, bears, reindeer, panther and rhinocerous........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0ieVPUFpIw

StoneGloves Dec 20, 2009 12:10:31

Replying to Jane

Umm, it's not megalithic, but it's prehistoric - this page ( http://directoradamcooley.angelfire.com/ ) but look for Blaze, the potsmoking deer. It's a strange film but 'cutting edge'.

Branwen Dec 20, 2009 17:18:01

Replying to Jane

When did the Black Elk die out, and does it ever feature on stone art? There was a program about them I might still be able to download, I think, said they died out from bad selective breeding criteria.

Branwen Dec 23, 2009 20:29:34

Replying to Jane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcfWsj9OnsI northern lights

Branwen Jan 4, 2010 19:49:58

Replying to Jane

Jane wrote:

Animal carvings! Would you Adam and Eve it! In Britain!!!!

nevermind... checked the tma pages and realised you'de seen this..