Remove the road and all is peace and tranquility.
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Grrrr! How long has this been here? Seen on the L hand upright 27 Aug 06. To me it looks like a swastica which has been altered to be less offensive. There have been so many posts about this sort of vandalism in the past and yet it still goes on.
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Maes Knoll in it’s landscape.
From Stanton Drew Great Circle, about 3K south.
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The more easterly of the two barrows here is 54M long, rectangular and orientated ESE.
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The more westerly of the two LB’s (on the right) is described as being 64M long and tapering with an orientation ESE.
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The inaccessable interior of the “Bowl Barrow”
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Called a Long Barrow on Explorer (SU335376) but MAGIC calls it an elongated bowl barrow.
Orientation ENE.
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Rather sadly flattened but still protected after a fashion.East end truncated by the road. Danebury in the background. OS Explorer..
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Is this how we would like to see Stonehenge, un encumbered from the trappings of the 21stC? A cheat of course as I had to wait for some time for a traffic free A344 and the roar from the A303 was just behind me. Curious as to how modest the stones appear from this angle. (Taken from the track to the SW)
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Weird collection of starlings on the stones. They all flew off to roost moments later.
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Not the most inspiring of sites in its suburban setting but at least some has been preserved apart from the bit trashed by the road.
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Notice board at the entrance with interpretation of the other barrows in the area including another LB.
Where is it? Although see my notes.
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The rather fine stepping stones over the Kennet provided by the farmer from old field clearance rocks.
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Doesn’t get any better does it? Why spoil this pretty and atmospheric site with 21C tat? One wonders at the mentality of the people who do this....grrrr.
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The hill in its landscape. Taken from the Cathedral tower. Winchester College in the middle ground.
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Difficult not to do image duplication but the carvings can be seen more readily in some lights than others,
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Couldn’t resist posting this pic of a beautiful hare which had been bounding about on the ditch and bank seemingly oblivious to the tourists only a few metres away.
I looked away to re-adjust my camera and when I looked back it had gone and was not seen again.
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The beautiful slimness of the solitary trilithon upright, stone 56 (?). It contrasts remarkably with all the rest of the stones in its quality of finish and its almost pristine appearance. Does anyone know of any single stone which shows better the Neolithic peoples complete mastery of their craft?
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Up close, one is in awe of the tremendous monumentality of this structure. Other circles might have more or heavier stones but it is the sheer height that astounds.
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A curious angle where the stones reminded me of a natural rocky outcrop.
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The Moon, not long after its most northerly rising in the 18.5 yr Metonic Cycle.
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The plentiful lichen on the great trilithon gives it a surprisingly “furry” appearance.
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The Moon had risen some minutes earlier just to the left of the Heel Stone.
This is the northernmost rising of the Moon on its 18 and a bit year Metonic cycle.
The alignment, 41 degrees E of N, may be the original reason for the construction of Stonehenge 1.
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This is what people surely came to celebrate, the midwinter sunset, when the daylight hours started to become longer.
A little poetic licence here as the pic was taken on the 15th Dec 05, but the sun is as near as dammit to its solstice position.
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Can somebody Photoshop out the bloody railings?
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Kit’s Coty in its landscape, from the north.
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The stones take on a completely different hue in shadow.
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The giant Cove Stone lit by the morning sun after Samhein.
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Soon after Summer Solstice sunrise in the SE chamber.
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Soon after Summer Solstice sunrise from the SE chamber.
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The barrow in its landscape. The first view approaching by road. Visible above the round bush in the centre.
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