Crickley from Birdlip.
Beyond, not clouds but the Malverns floating above the mist.
Image credit: Nigel Swift
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Skirrid Fawr viewed along the capstone. It seems likely that before the capstone slumped to one side the alignment may have been even more precise.
Is this further evidence for Alfred Watkins’ belief in an old straight track between the two? Or alternatively, is the existence of the old straight track extra evidence that this alignment really was deliberate?
More musings here – themodernantiquarian.com/user/3188/weblog/0/56837
Image credit: Nigel Swift
WKLB from “Silbaby”.
Fully visible and exactly at right angles. An auspicious view?
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Cropped/enlarged version of one of Pete’s pictures.
Image credit: Pete Glastonbury
Silbaby is in the foreground to the left of the road, and Silbury Hill is beyond.
Image credit: Pete Glastonbury
January 10th 2004:
Guardianship Mockery – One of 4 much- used access paths, each without a warning notice within even distant sight.
Image credit: Nigel
The 1776 image, and the modern reality... there seems to be a lot of equivalence when looked at this way. Does this suggest, for instance, that the modern “head” was originally the eye?
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The Beast of Uffington. The text below reads:
In 871 a famous victory had been gained by Alfred at Reading, 4 days after King Ethelred and Alfred, his brother, fought against the whole army of Pagans at Ashdown, and it was in memory of this victory Alfred caused his men the day after the battle to cut out the White Horse, the standard of Hengist, on the hillside The name Hengist means in the ancient Saxon language “Stone Horse.” “See here the Pad of Good King Alfry. Sure never was so rare a Palfry ; Tho earth his Dam, his Sire a spade. No Painter e’er a finer made ; Not Wootton on his hunting pieces Can show one such a Tit as this is” – Philalethes Rusticus. Measured 355 feet nose to tail ; 120 feet ear to hoof, and may be seen on the GWR Down Line between Uffington and Shrivenham. Copyright Tomkins and Barrett Swindon.
Image credit: Sent to me by Pete G
Image of coin taken from historyforsale.co.uk/celticcoins.htm
(The more you look the more similarities there seem to be.... or is it chance?)
Image credit: Nigel
There’s not enough poetry on this site, IMHO. After all, it’s about feelings, expressed in pictures and fieldnotes, so why shouldn’t poetry be used for the same thing.
OK, I’m no Shakespeare, but lack of talent isn’t a good reason not to express your feelings, and these are my feelings.
Image credit: Nigel
Tweaked to look like a watercolour, using Photosuite.
Art or Artifice?
Image credit: Nigel
