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TRANSCRIPT OF THE LONG MAN OF WILMINGTON SEQUENCE OF EPISODE 3 OF TRINNY AND SUSANNAH


TRANSCRIPT OF THE LONG MAN OF WILMINGTON SEQUENCE OF EPISODE 3 OF TRINNY AND SUSANNAH UNDRESS THE NATION, BROADCAST ON TUE 20/11/07 ON ITV1

1 min: Programme intro.

WAKE: I'm asking you to call a stop to the proceedings.

(A Druid raises his arms to the Long Man, with the women on the figure in the background. The women file up onto the Long Man. The women get into position)

25 mins: End of segment sequence.

NARRATOR:…and they embrace the female form by getting their hands on a giant man.

(T&S talking to Chris Tuckett, from Sussex Archaeological Society, at the base of the figure)

SUSANNAH:How can we be sure it's a bloke because there's no penis?

34 mins:

NARRATOR: Meanwhile Trinny and Susannah are about to take their mission up a gear.

(Trinny and Susannah on motorbikes approaching Wilmington)

SUSANNAH: Today wasn't just about telling a few women how to shop. I mean the message is far greater than that. And we want to encourage women to really celebrate their bodies, no matter what shape they are. And we need to broadcast this message on the biggest canvas we can find.

NARRATOR: What better canvas than a giant man? Time for the girls to study shape and size on a huge scale with the Long Man of Wilmington and his keeper Chris Tuckett from the Sussex Archaeological Society.

(T&S at the base of the figure with Chris Tuckett)

SUSANNAH: So tell us about him. What's his history? How old is he?

CHRIS TUCKETT: Well no one really knows really. Um, A lot of people think he could be a pagan war-god. Um, other people think he's a fertility symbol.

SUSANNAH:How can we be sure it's a bloke because there's no penis? And it's kind of quite, from this angle it's quite a womanly shape.

CHRIS TUCKETT: Do you think so?

TRINNY: Yeah.

SUSANNAH: Yes it's got hips.

CHRIS TUCKETT: Yeah, I've got good hips.

TRINNY: Not like that you haven't. Do you know why we're here?

CHRIS TUCKETT: I've got absolutely no idea. I'm quite worried now actually.

TRINNY: Well what we actually want to do is we want to change him into a woman.

CHRIS TUCKETT: Okay.

TRINNY: Not permanently.

CHRIS TUCKETT: Good.

TRINNY: We want to give him breasts and we want to give him some hips and then we might change him and give him broad shoulders or narrow shoulders and…

CHRIS TUCKETT: Well as long as you promise me to look after him.

(Music)

CHRIS TUCKETT: Apparently if you go up there on Midsummer's Night…

TRINNY: Yeah

CHRIS TUCKETT: …and you want to get your girlfriend or your wife pregnant then that's the time to do it, because it's guaranteed that you'll get pregnant.

SUSANNAH: Trinny, shall we go and make a baby?

(All three climbing up onto the Long Man)

SUSANNAH: If we can get close. It's really big.

TRINNY: I'm so unfit! I can hardly breathe!

(On the Long Man)

SUSANNAH: Okay, let's just sit quietly and see if we can feel the vibe.

TRINNY: What are you feeling darling?

SUSANNAH: I'm feeling my ovaries…shaking around. I feel that fourth child is going to be arriving…

(Trinny leaps on Susannah)

TRINNY: Stop! Give it to me! I'm the one who should have another baby! You've got enough!

41 mins:

(Addressing a crowd of women in a shopping street)

SUSANNAH: Are you up for changing the landscape? You don't know what I'm talking about do you?

(The women running onto the Long Man)

NARRATOR: Next the girls celebrate British women's shape by giving a giant man a sex change.

(Druids confronting T&S)

WAKE: I'm asking you to call a stop to the proceedings.

46 mins:

(Arial shot of the Long Man)

NARRATOR: Trinny and Susannah's crusade to educate women about their shape is ending in epic style. On the Sussex Downs. The girls are putting on a catwalk show with a giant backdrop.

(Trinny with the women who will go on the Long Man)

TRINNY: Okay ladies, off you go! Off you go!

(The women run towards the Long Man)

NARRATOR: For the first time in his existence this ancient symbol of masculinity, the Long Man of Wilmington, is going to be redrawn as a woman.

(The women walking towards the Long Man)

NARRATOR: And not just one woman. Four differently shaped women.

TRINNY: Fantastic! Woooo!

(A group of Druids and Odinists)

NARRATOR: But not if these people have anything to do with it. The Woden Folk are Pagans and they're not impressed with what the girls are planning.

(T&S talking to Pagans)

SUSANNAH: If you look at in a different way, and I think, ladies, you might understand this. Commercialism, the way magazines are, are really doing a disservice to women. And we want Woden to kind of help make women feel better about themselves, help give women confidence about..What we're doing is not commercial. It's all about how women feel about themselves in side. Yeah.

WAKE: I'm asking you to call a stop to the proceedings.

SUSANNAH: Okay…right. Okay, we have a dilemma…

WAKE: And find some alternative way to do…

SUSANNAH: We have a dilemma, because we hear what you say and if we do go ahead with it you absolutely have your right to protest. You absolutely have that right. And we do hear what you are saying.

WAKE: Well either way, thank you very much for stopping and…

SUSANNAH: No, well thank you for talking to us and you could wear a slightly wider belt.

(Laughter)

DAMH: We knew, we knew (you were going to do that)

NARRATOR: While it's stalemate for Trinny and Susannah and the Pagans, the Guildford shoppers have arrived to join the celebrations in their new outfits…

48 mins:

NARRATOR: Before the show gets started Susannah's got a date on the Downs.

(Susannah in white boiler-suit. The Women arrive at the foot of the Long Man. A Druid blows a horn. Ride of the Valkyries plays in the background)

NARRATOR: But half a mile away at the foot of the Long Man, Woden's welcoming committee is waiting.

(Protestors boo the women)

Woman protestor: Shame on you!

(Susannah arrives on a quad bike. Two members of Woden's Folk, one of whom is Troy Southgate, looking at the women with Druids further away)

Member of Woden's Folk (dubbed, as he is on camera at the time not talking): Are you celebrating the female form? (unclear) Look at you!

(Susannah about to address the women)

Member of Woden's Folk (dubbed, as he is on camera at the time not talking): (unclear) …come to your senses!

(Unclear. Lots of cheering from the women and indistinguishable shouts from protestors)

SUSANNAH: Don't worry about the abuse here. Okay, all I want to say is is that we are going onto a sacred archaeological site and we need to respect it…

Troy Southgate (From Woden's Folk): You're going to desecrate an ancient site!

SUSANNAH: …we need to respect these guys' point of view…

Troy Southgate (From Woden's Folk): You're going to desecrate an ancient site, that's what you're going to do!

SUSANNAH: And we're going to go up there and we're going to be an inspiration to all women out there. So let's just go out and enjoy it. Okay?

(The women cheer. Shot of the Druids further away. The women walk onto the Long Man)

NARRATOR: So despite the Pagans' protests, the Long Man's sex-change begins.

(Wake looking at the Long Man. The women get into position.)

TRINNY (On radio): Calling Susannah, calling Susannah. Over.

SUSANNAH (On radio): I'm just trying to work out which side is left and which side is right at the moment. We're just getting everyone into, um, kind of vague places.

(Druids calling an Awen at the foot of the Long Man)

SUSANNAH: And meanwhile, down below, there is a Pagan circle.

(Close shot of Druids calling an Awen)

TRINNY: Alright, well you make your own circle. Over. We're doing the cornet first (One of the body shapes)

(close up of the women on the Long Man. A Druid Awen played over the shot)

SUSANNAH: Alright ladies! Can you lie down.

(The Long Man transformed from the air)

TRINNY: Can we make the ankles thinner? Over.

SUSANNAH: Uh…ankles! The right ankle needs to be a little bit thinner.

(A Druid raises his arms to the Long Man, with the women on the figure in the background.)

SUSANNAH: You need to come in a little bit.

(Women on the Long Man shuffling over)

(Fashion sequence in Wilmington with transformed Long Man in background)

50 mins:

TRINNY: Susannah, come in Susannah. Over.

SUSANNAH: You don't need to shout so loudly

TRINNY: Alright, we've done our cornet and we're now going onto our Pear. Over.

SUSANNAH: Okay. Position two!

(Women running into place)

SUSANNAH: Thick ankles. Think of Trinny. Low…slung…arse. (To women) You need to come in a bit and you need to come in a bit and you need to come in a tiny bit.

(Arial shot of Long Man)

Middle-aged Woman on Long Man: I answered an advert in the, um, Argus for a fun day out and this is what I'm doing. It's wonderful!

Young Woman on the Long Man: At college they just said they needed physically fit women to take part in a fun challenge. And then I phoned up and they were, like, You're going to be turning the Long Man into a woman.

(Fashion sequence in Wilmington with transformed Long Man in background)

52 mins:

TRINNY: Okay Sues, we've done the Pear.

SUSANNAH: Position number three! Apple!

(The women move into position)

SUSANNAH: Okay Trin, is it beginning to take shape?

TRINNY: Right hand side needs to go out a bit. Push it out a bit towards the top.

SUSANNAH: Okay, you need to go out a tiny bit and then you stay, I think…

Elderly woman on the Long Man: I've known the Long Man since I was a little girl. I remember it when it was painted green during the War, so that enemy planes wouldn't see it. And now the Long Man is seeing something quite different. I think they're wrong, the Druids down there.

(close up on Wake looking up at the Long Man)

…but I don't think it's their hill anymore than anybody else's hill. I think we're quite alright here.

(Fashion sequence in Wilmington. Long Man not shown, except in one brief moment where it appears untransformed)

SUSANNAH: Okay! Position number four. The Hourglass.

(The women getting into position from the air)

TRINNY: Those tits don't look very big to me. Okay, let's give her an encouraging cheer.

(Cheers from the women in Wilmington.)

TRINNY: Are we happy with the hips? I didn't hear you! Are we happy with the hips?

(Cheers)

TRINNY: Thank you. Are you happy with the shape?

SUSANNAH (Lying on the Long Man): I think this has been one of the best days I've ever had. Don't you girls? Hasn't it been great today?

(Cheers)

It's just been fab.

(Fashion sequence in Wilmington with transformed Long Man in background)

55mins:

TRINNY: We've done our shapes, so come back here.

(Brief shot of Susannah walking off the Long Man. Brief scene in Wilmington. Helicopter taking off. Shots of Susannah looking at transformed Long Man, but without a shot of both her face and the transformed figure. She was not in the helicopter while the women were on the figure, so a stand in must have been used with their face concealed. Montage of fashion interviews, shot of the Long Man being transformed from the air and another shot of the Susannah stand-in waving to the women on the Long Man from the helicopter)

VOICE OF TRINNY/SUSANNAH (Supposedly in helicopter): I don't know how we can ever top that. Do you?

VOICE OF TRINNY/SUSANNAH (Supposedly in helicopter): We'll find a way.

(The hymn "Jerusalem" reaches a crescendo with a final shot of the Long Man transformed)

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Windover and Wilmington Hill (minus Media Morons)


It was good being back at the Long Man as he should be. Hardly anyone about. No helicopters. No shouting. No media sheep ready to trample all over him.

As I walked up the path a figure appeared at the top of his eastern stave and I prepared to shout. Then the rest of the family appeared. But oddly enough they did not go on the figure, but skirted down the eastern side. Now I might be reading too much into this, but normally I would have expected a family group such as this to walk down the figure itself. Could the message be getting through? They also turned out to be from the Netherlands, which could be an even better sign if its even getting through internationally.

The fence is still broken at the base of the figure. This where the ITV women got through and it is high time it was fixed.

The Long Man of Wilmington — Images

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I also checked the figure for loose blocks, but did not cross the fence obviously. The worst of these is on the figure's left foot and is noticeable from the viewing point in Wilmington.

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I also took the chance to photograph the most significant turf damage on the figure, both from the base and top of the figure.

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Anyway.

I haven't been up Windover, let alone Wilmington, Hill in a long time. The events of 4 weeks ago have brought home to me how important it is to have people sticking up for this landscape. The people doing that should be those who are paid to, but to assume that will be the case is naïve, because it isn't a landscape owned by one body. The fact that the NO BAN defacement happened with full permission from the owner of that piece of land says it all. In my world such a defacement of a heritage landscape would attract a large fine. But we don't live in that world.

I went up the hill with my eyes open as never before. As a result I saw barrows that I had simply never noticed before, at least I think they are barrows. I like to think I have an eye for these things, being in a part of the world where most round barrows are not immediately obvious, but it was worrying to see how many of the ones I spotted were not marked on the OS map of the area.

For starters there are the two barrows on the western slope of Windover. I had read of a mound in this area, but from the cursus the two barrows were immediately obvious.


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I have also entered the smaller barrow on the hill itself as a separate barrow, since it seems to align with the Long Man's eastern stave. It is very difficult to get this one on camera, but I managed to capture it more successfully than on previous attempts.

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I have also added images for the Long Mound and Bowl Barrow, which I will not include here.

So to Wilmington Hill, which lies to the east of Windover Hill. In fact Windover is really a lower plateau next to the real hill. I suspect it only got a separate name as it's where the exciting stuff is. The only OS acknowledged barrow on Wilmington Hill is Hunter's Burgh. At long last I photographed this barrow properly, as well as the impressive views to east and west.

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It is an excellently placed barrow and Rodney Castleden, in the Wilmington Giant, theorised that such barrows might have been placed to allow ritual communication across large distances. A fire beacon at each of Combe Hill Camp, Hunter's Burgh, Caburn and the Tump in Lewes would allow communication of the start of a ritual, over this significant distance, within a matter of minutes, rather like the sequence in Return of the King where the beacons are lit. Sorry to quote Lord of the Rings but it's the only good example I could think of. All highly speculative of course, but such speculation is an essential part of interpreting such sites.

However at the top of the hill I think there is a barrow cemetery consisting of three round barrows. I was very surprised not to see one of these marked on the map as it is very obvious.

Wilmington Hill — Images

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The other two are questionable and need more investigation. I will amend my entry on these if it turns out I just had barrow fever.

Wilmington Hill — Images

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What is essential though, given that the Long Man has now become politicised, is that all ancient remains on these two hills are recorded and recognised. Nobody on a salary is going to do this, at least until a pain in the rear such as a Modern Antiquarian starts on at them. So that is what I will do.

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Mistreatment of the Long Man of Wilmington


DATE: Wed 4th July 2007
AUTHOR: CURSUSWALKER
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SUBJECT; TRINNY AND SUSANNAH AT THE LONG MAN OF WILMINGTON, EAST SUSSEX 1st and 2nd July 2007

A lot has already been said about the sacred aspects of this site, all of which I respect, having seen this figure as a part of my own practice of Paganism for a long time.

I will, however, confine myself mainly to the archaeological aspects of what has happened of the last few days. The Sussex Archaeological Society, as they have been at pains to point out, have been the owners and custodians of the Long Man of Wilmington since 1925. As far as I am aware at no time since then have they made any decision with regard to its maintenance that has caused controversy such as has happened this week. The replacement of the Victorian bricks with concrete blocks in 1969 was cause for some concern, but are now accepted fairly widely as the way in which the figure is kept visible. They are repainted about every 5 years, at which time 15 people are permitted on the figure for the relatively short time that it takes to do this. Groups are also allowed on the figure in order to clean the blocks from time to time and authorised personnel inspect it for damage.

Apart from the grazing by livestock there should be no other reason to go on the figure whatsoever. Until this week the owners, who I will refer to as the SAS, seemed to take this attitude, and those who care about the Long Man have had no reason to think otherwise.

Until this week.

The circumstances surrounding permission being given to ITV to film 80 women transforming the Long Man into a "Long Woman", for a programme hosted by Trinny and Susannah, have a certain mysterious element. We think that the plan, all along, was to film on the Long Man figure itself. Yet in the weeks leading up to the event the impression was given to many that they would not be on the actual figure. There was an apparent change of plan due to the weather, according to the Site Manager (I will still allow him that title out of courtesy). Yet when I spoke to him on the 2nd of July he refused to elaborate on this.

The suspicion has to be mentioned that all of this was an attempt to blindside those who the organisers knew would be angered by this event. It nearly worked. Having known of the event for weeks, we had practically no time at all to organise our protests and, considering this fact, we are justified in being relieved at what we have been able to achieve.

So then, to the events on Windover Hill itself. On Sunday 1st July Pagans turned up at the Long Man to find the figure covered in people rehearsing for the actual filming the next day. As far as we are aware there was no archaeological supervision of what was happening at all. When the women came off the figure for lunch, and at the end of the day's rehearsal, we let them know, in no uncertain terms, that they should not be on the figure. Their responses in the afternoon were very telling.

It was depressingly clear that during lunch they had been reassured by the film-crew that it was fine for them to be on the figure. The phrases that kept cropping up were "We've got permission", "It's only concrete blocks" and "What archaeology?" In order to complete filming it seems that the film-crew had completely misrepresented the nature of the site to them, possibly out of their own actual ignorance, possibly deliberately. One member of the film-crew's response to my pointing out the damage they could be causing was "Makes good television though doesn't it?" In a conversation with one of the researchers I was reassured that the women were "not on the figure itself". As this was said I could clearly see women lying next to and on the concrete blocks. The definition of "on the figure itself" seems to have been being used in the loosest possible sense and was, in any case, incorrect.

Later, when the photographs we had taken of the figure were inspected, the close-ups revealed that the positions the women were to take up on the figure had been marked by green sticks being stuck into the ground next to the concrete blocks, in other words, presumably, the most archaeologically sensitive areas.

The next day, Monday 2nd July, the protest started at 10:00am. This time had been pure guesswork on our part, but turned out to be the right time to turn up. Present at the protest were members of the Anderida Druid Gorsedd and Anderida Grove, Ashdown Grove and Avronelle Seed Group, as well as the Insular Order of Druids. Elsewhere other Druids were doing the invaluable work of phoning and e-mailing the media and relevant organisations. In this sense they were just as much present as everyone else, in an altogether less glamorous role. The women turned up shortly afterwards, this time dressed in white hooded boiler suits as these would ensure they showed up on camera. The protestors had leaflets to give out to the women, explaining our perspective on what they were doing, but they had been told not to take them. Two did and I know of one who apologised and said that she "had to" take part. Such is the power of television.

I was unable to be present until mid-afternoon, due to work, but arrived just as the women went up onto the Long Man. Prior to this, protestors had been giving interviews to the media and debating their point of view with the film crew and, of course, Trinny and Susannah. Crucially, during the day I had managed to talk to the Chief Executive Officer of the SAS and had passed on the information that sticks were being stuck into the ground on the figure, having had this independently confirmed by another protestor. To their credit, the CEO seems to have immediately phoned the Site Manager who ordered that the sticks be removed. Up to that point his "supervision" of the event seems to have been from the car-park at the bottom of the hill.

Considering the fact that we could not see the sticks from the base of the Long Man, and that it took photographic close-ups for us to notice them at all, I would question the level of supervision of the whole event very strongly, especially as the Site Manager is not an archaeologist and admitted to barely ever visiting the site at all.
The event continued, with the women having also now been told, it seems, not to lie on the concrete blocks that protect the underlying archaeology (some of it at least). As they came off the hill those Druids present turned our backs on them in a line in a silent demonstration of our disgust at what they had done.

So now comes the aftermath.

Sussex Archaeological Society (I cannot resist the name in full again as the central word is meant to carry a certain meaning) are now engaged in damage limitation. They have said in a press release that "the considered opinion is that the figure cannot be any older than the 16th century". Yet in the next line it is described as "a scheduled Ancient Monument" and that "it is an offense (sic) to damage the Long Man".

What does "ancient" actually mean? And why did the Site Manager, in a conversation with me on the 1st, say that the agreement was that any damage caused to the figure was to be paid for by ITV? If this was an actual part of the agreement then that is surely an acknowledgement that there was a possibility of such damage taking place. Archaeology, like all Science, works on judgements of probability in the face of available evidence. The available evidence for the custodians of the Long Man to consider was that 80 plus people would be walking all over the figure for a significant portion of two days, focussing on the areas around the concrete blocks. In the face of those facts, it seems reasonable to conclude that damage to the figure would, probably, be caused.

At the base of the Long Man the SAS have placed signs asking the public to stay off the figure due to the danger of soil erosion. On their website it clearly states "Visitors are respectfully asked not to walk on to the figure itself, or the nearby surrounding vegitation (sic)." Do these notices still apply? In what way was the activities of those two days less likely to cause such damage than the ordinary traffic of occasional walkers acting irresponsibly and walking straight down the hill over the figure? In conversation with SAS staff it was pointed out to me that livestock are allowed to roam freely across the figure, in order to keep it grazed. As far as I am aware, and from personal observation, they tend to stick to the lines of the natural paths across the figure that are the normal result of downland scarp-slope soil erosion. What they most categorically do not do is walk up and down such slopes en masse, dislodging the vegetation that preserves these fragile paths in the process. Neither, when on the Long Man, do they congregate on the soil on either side of the concrete blocks. It would be a strange spectacle indeed if they did!

To summarise, this event has been a PR disaster for the owners of the Long Man, and probably for ITV as well. And deservedly so. With ownership comes custodianship. Until now the Sussex archaeological Society have seemed to understand this. However, at the time of writing the custodianship of the Long Man of Wilmington lies not with the owners, but with all those, be they Pagan, Antiquarian or Archaeologist, who continue to represent the high standard of custodianship that SAS previously have demonstrated. This is a situation that cannot, and must not, continue, since this temporary custodianship is held without power of enforcement, except by means of protest.

I care passionately about the Long Man of Wilmington. I have been walking in that area for many years and have read widely on the archaeology and history of the figure, which may well be a modern interpretation of a figure that has been in that space, on and off, for a very long time indeed. One of the largest Bronze Age round barrows in East Sussex lies directly above the space in which the Long Man lies, and the largest Neolithic Long Barrow in Sussex lies only a few yards away from that, practically equal in length to the space the Long Man now occupies and pointing directly at the top of the same space. These facts do not prove an ancient origin for the figure, but they must give pause for thought to anyone with a serious interest in our ancient heritage.

In the light of these facts, the attempts by the SAS to try to trivialise the age of the figure, in order to get themselves out of an embarrassing position, should be regarded with scepticism, to put it politely.

Until the owners of the Long man of Wilmington admit that giving permission for this event was a mistake, and undertake that they will never again allow access to the site except for the purpose of maintenance, I have to express no confidence in the ability of The Sussex Archaeological Society as custodians of the Long Man. I am sure there are many who will join me.

SUPPLEMENTAL COMMENT 18/7/07: The owners of the Long Man have now apologised for any offence caused by allowing the filming and have promised to consult interested parties before allowing any event in future.

My personal confidence in their custodianship is, therefore, restored. We look forward to working with them for the future welfare of the Long Man.

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Sussex Archeaological Society — Links

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This is the information page on the Long Man of Wilmington on the Sussex Archaeological Society website.
This is the You Tube video of the protest at the Long Man of Wilmington on Monday 2nd July 2007, against the stunt that involved 100+ women trampling all over the Long Man for the TV show "Trinny and Susannah Undress"
This You Tube presentation covers the first day of filming on the figure, including evidence of irresponsible practices on the part of ITV.

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Cornwall 2006


I visited Chun Quoit for the first time ever on the 11th of August and cannot believe I took so long to do so.
On the way to the Quoit we visited Chun Castle, which is overgrown but still impressive. In fact many of the remains there are probably protected because of this.

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Chûn Quoit — Images

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I won't bother with most of my external pictures of the Quoit, as there are quite enough of those on MA already, but the chamber is something else:

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I also re-visited Lanyon Quoit, Men-an-Tol and the Men Scryfa, where I was able to get detailed pictures of the inscription.

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The Giant's Ring flyby


Another County Down Megalithic flyby from my good friend Nareik.

This time of the Giant's Ring on 16/1/06. The Winter lighting alone makes these pictures worthwhile...

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I am an Atheist Naturalist Humanist Neo-Pagan Ritualist Revivalist Philosophical Druid (Yes that title is tongue-in-cheek), living and practising in Sussex.

The Long Man of Wilmington is a site of great importance for me and was the first with which I feel I connected spiritually. In 1998 I started walking extensively in the area of the Long Man as well as taking an interest in its history.

Both my grandfathers died in early 1999 (See my fieldnotes on Windmill Hill). As a way of honouring them, between April 1999 and August 2000 I walked the route from Eastbourne, in East Sussex, to The Uffington White Horse in Oxfordshire, via the South Down's Way, Winchester Cathedral, the Clarendon Way, Salisbury Cathedral, Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, the Vale of Pewsey, Avebury and the Ridgeway.
The walk also took in visits to both of their graves, in Sussex and Wiltshire, en route.

In 2001 I extended this walk from Salisbury Cathedral, West to Wells Cathedral and then on to Glastonbury Tor.

Nearly all of my earlier pictures were taken during these walks and I tend to focus, overall, on Sussex and the South Downs.

In recent years I have also taken an interest in Ireland, as marrying into an Irish family does tend to mean one visits the place from time to time!

Although I have become an atheist, I still class myself as a Pagan. This can give rise to interesting discussions!

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