One sided views

The King Stone 3

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nigelswift Sep 27, 2006 09:16:11

I was interested in this sketch of the King Stone http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/
and wanted to find a modern image from that angle, to see if it was unchanged.... but there are very few, everyone tends to take pictures from the other side, presumably because it looks nicer or its easier.... so I was thinking, is this a widespread occurance, and therefore a bit of a gap in the record that TMA is trying to create?

Chris Sep 27, 2006 10:41:15

Replying to nigelswift

I've just submitted the only two I have from that side-any use?

Might do 'til someone closer gets out there again.

Littlestone Sep 27, 2006 13:24:11

Replying to nigelswift

...wanted to find a modern image from that angle, to see if it was unchanged.... but there are very few, everyone tends to take pictures from the other side...

That's an interesting observation Nigel.

The illustration by Ravenhill is from his little book, The Rollright Stones and The Men Who Erected Them, first published in 1926 and followed by a second edition in 1932. In the 1932 edition there are two other plates; one of a 14th century text, now in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and thought to be the earliest account of the Rollright Stones, the other illustration is of an old OS map of the Stones. The book also has several poems :-)

Moth Sep 28, 2006 09:19:37

Replying to nigelswift

I've got some from that side, but not digitally....

love

Moth