A simple view in watercolour looking due south over the landscape from the Kings men.
Image credit: 'South of the Rollrights' by Jane Tomlinson
Jane
Sitting in the shade of the Wayland’s beech trees after a hot, dusty walk from Uffington Castle, I stopped to admire the sketch I’d made of the Wayland’s site from further up the hill...
The ramparts of Uffington Castle wiggle on for ever! (or it seems like forever on a hot day...)
Look at the bloody ruts that all those sodding trials bikes and 4x4s leave! It makes walking and riding needlessly dangerous.
Image credit: "Rollright spring dawn" - watercolour by Jane Tomlinson
In this weird little watercolour, I have tried to express the sense of rotation of the energy that the stone circle creates. It’s for you to decide whether or not I have achieved this!
(Private collection, Teesside)
Image credit: 'Magic circle' - Watercolour painting by Jane Tomlinson
Webster admires the barrows dotting his landscape.
(They’re just between his ears!)
Oscar and Webster look with disgust at the huge cruciform erection which has defaced Churn Knob.
“They would never have allowed that to happen when I was a foal”, mused Webster.
‘A midsummer night’s sky’ painted by me. Now in a private collection, West Midlands
Diagram of known ring ditches and cropmarks in the area of the Devil’s Quoits, plotted by Grimes in the early 1940s.
I found this amazing aerial image of the site of the Devils Quoits on page 4 of ‘Excavations at the Devil’s Quoits’ by Barclay, Gray and Lambrick, published by Oxford Archeaological Unit, 1995. The photo was taken in the 1940s and shows the runway bisecting the henge. But what gets me is all those incredible ringditches. All sadly, now lost to us.
Image credit: Photo:Proff JK St Joseph, Crown Copyright
The wonderous treaclechops relaxes for a moment at Pentre Ifan
This extinct volcano totally dominates the landscape around Newport. This is taken looking over the Nevern River, once where perhaps, the bluestones of stonehenge were floated down from their quarry...
My daughter Cleo attempts (and fails) to topple the capstone from Llech y T
The photographer at work at Tre Fach. Note Carn Ingli in the background...
Cleo peers in to marvel at the tiny gap between capstone and upright....
Notice the peak of Mynedd Carningli looming over everything in the background
Treaclechops and Rupie point out the menhir camoflagued at the field edge. We were thrilled to find it!
I made this sketch whilst sitting in a reedbed on the banks of the river Nevern, just 200ms away from Carreg Coetan arthur. I dashed it off in 30 mins flat, so please forgive the rough nature of it.
A rather crappy sketch from my sketchbook. This does NOT do it justice. It was better when it was a pencil drawing, before I laid the washes down.
