watercolour sketch (c) Jane Tomlinson, 2005
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Jane
‘Golden winter dawn at Silbury‘
watercolour
(c) Jane Tomlinson, 2004
...with thanks to Pete G for providing the initial inspiration.
(Apologies for the horrible scan.)
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‘Big five’ watercolour painting (c) Jane Tomlinson, 2004
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‘Fragile‘
watercolour painting (c) Jane Tomlinson, 2004
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‘Wild flower at Brodgar’, watercolour painting (c) Jane Tomlinson, 2004
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‘Mother Oxfordshire‘
watercolour painting
(c) Jane Tomlinson, 2003
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‘White Horse Hill’ a watercolour painting featuring the Manger, Dragon Hill and the White Horse
(c) Jane Tomlinson, 2004
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Next time you’re approaching Swindon on the M4, look out for Liddington castle on the skyline.
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I seem to get lucky with rainbows :-)
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If it weren’t for Ron Simison (pictured right) the Tomb of the Eagles would probably be undiscovered and certainly unexcavated. This man is not only a hero, he is also very knowledgable, entrepreneurial, pioneering and exceptionally witty. Here, TMA contributor ‘Hob’ (pictured left) enjoys Ron’s sparkling dry wit.
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The length of the souterrain:
The grille on the ground nearest the camera is at the furthest end of the souterrain. You can see Moth just climbing out of the entrance which is at the other end.
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The square entrance with metal ladder doesn’t exactly ‘invite’, does it?
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Nothing to see here except a VERY large grassy mound.
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As at many sites in the care of Historic Scotland, a large weatherproof box can be found next to the tomb containing a powerful large torch to aid the visitor’s enjoyment of the site.
I want the job of going round all the sites on Orkney checking if the battery still works :-)
Can you imagine this polite -quaint even!- thoughtfulness on the part of the authorities lasting more than 5 minutes in England?Some miserable twat would undoubtedly half-inch in.
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The lane cuts through part of one of the cairns outer circles.
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Away from the main clava cairns, walking west for 500ms, is this peculiar place, clearly part of the larger complex.
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The long cairn lies just north of the round cairn and dominates the horizon.
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Restored in 1980. And quite a nice job they made of it, too.
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What I hadn’t anticipated was the depth of the ditch, which is pretty complete all the way round. The construction of this part of the monumnet alone is astonishing.
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The silhouette of the circle against the big tall skies hereabouts never failed to impress. That this is a monument to the heavens was quite obvious to me.
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At times the sky really was this blue. And the light it cast showed up the ‘grain’ of the stones.
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It’s in the middle of a small housing estate, next the fire station. Rather incongruous, but I quite liked it.
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The sharpness and height of the edge of the henge was astonishing.
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Its unmissable on the main road from Stromness to Kirkwall and very well signposted :-)
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A beautiful rainbow added to even more magic to Brodgar.
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The tomb can be seen up there, above the sign on the skyline.
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