“The common people call it Hell stone, and have a tradition that the devil flung it from Portland Pike, a north point of that island full in view, as he was diverting himself at quoits.” History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset by Rev. John Hutchins (1803)
Film and music by Matthew Shaw
A film by Matthew Shaw featuring Men Gurta, Boscawen-Un, Dry Tree Menhir, Castle an Dinas, Carn Euny & The Nine Maidens.
Let’s hear it for those magnificent archaeologists in their LiDAR-equipped flying machines…
GWREIDDIAU / ROOTS was the 10th year anniversary of the Bryn Celli Ddu landscape project, based at the internationally important 5,000 year old passage tomb, Ynys Môn.
Think Creatively worked in collaboration with Cadw, Manchester Metropolitan University, GeoMôn, Galeri Caernarfon, Oriel Môn, Stone Club, Anglesey Druid Order, Rhys Mwyn and supported Welsh artists to deliver a series of workshops, walks, talks and excavations.
Matthew Shaw of Stone Club hosted the Q&A and created the soundscape capturing the voices of visitors experiences of the site to the backdrop of the fantastic film footage captured by Adam Stanford.
In this video we cover the history and archaeology of Ysbyty Cynfyn. Why is this church built within a so-called ‘druidical circle’?
One may have ‘heard about the bird’... but what of these two beauties only (re)discovered in 2015? No, really.
I think you will like this video by Allotment Fox, a softly spoken man who finds and reads passages from Saxon charters and then walks the landscape in search of the features they use to outline the boundaries of areas of land. Here he’s discovered mention of Yarnbury, which he thinks must mean the ‘yearning’ or ‘yonder’ fort. There are nice aerial shots of the fort and images of the local wildlife.
In this video we explore Ystum Cegid Isaf and cover the history and archaeology of the site. We hope you enjoy!
I visited Nine Ladies of Stanton Moor shortly after the artist had been filming there. I was intrigued to see the results...
Stomping around in hill fog upon the Carneddau looking for ring cairns.... it’s always a good idea to fix one’s position when taking a bearing. Hey, a stone circle. That’ll do.
In this video we explore Bryn Cader Faner and cover the history and archaeology of this iconic site.
In this video we delve into the great Stonehenge Bluestone debate… questioning what we know about how a varied collection of ‘bluestones’ made their way from the Preseli Hills to the Salisbury Plain.
We start with a brief history of the last 400 years at Stonehenge.. Exploring research by antiquarians, archaeologists and geologists… demonstrating how professional and public opinion has changed over time and sharing our own journey through the last three decades of media coverage. Over the last decade, the topic has been dominated by claims made by Professor Mike Parker Pearson, involving ‘Bluestone quarries’ at Craig Rhos Y Felin and Carn Goedog, and a huge stone circle at Waun Mawn… Claims that were reported as fact by a wide range of media outlets, predominantly during the 2021 BBC documentary “Stonehenge – The Lost Circle Revealed”.
Because of the massive impact this BBC documentary had on public opinion… we felt we couldn’t properly address this topic without properly addressing the way in which evidence was interpreted throughout the documentary… Showing examples from the show, we explore the other legitimate interpretations available and tentatively offer our own conclusions.
Please feel free to comment your thoughts on the topic. Also a massive thanks to everyone who has been getting involved here and on Youtube.. Your feedback is invaluable and we’ve learned so much from you all. Lets keep on bothering those stones!
Diolch yn fawr. Thanks!
In this video we explore this beautiful site as well as cover all the known history and archaeology.
The ‘First and Last Hill in Britain’ should possess something to commemorate the fact, right? Err... you could say that.
Anyone for bob-buttons? Legendary giant mayhem at Trencrom Hill, near St. Ives, Cornwall
Every girl’s crazy ‘bout a Sharp-Profiled-Tor. Yeah, right.
Something else to do in Newquay… should you not be a kook destined for a wipeout, dudes?