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I turned the corner and saw.... from a Bees’ eye view
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Stones & rings, stones and rings, these are a few of my favourite things... fa la la...
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The ‘Corn Moon’ shining over the Shadow of Silbury Hill.... (19th Aug ‘05 at 9.30pm-ish)
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...another time, another place.. magical goings on on the Barrow... (one of the four).
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Northwards along the Ridgeway towards the direction of Avebury
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This was on a hot summers day in August this year, well a couple of them... Having seen various Barrows on the sky-line and hill sides in the distance from Avebury ring itself... Curiosity (among other things) drove me to seek out and explore these exquisit and ancient features...
I was not disappointed as hiking in the heat along the Ridgeway we came across those barrows, visible more from the Avenue of Stones, that I have affectionally named ‘The Gang of Four” as there are four of them in close proximity to each other...
With their twisted outer ring of sentinel-like trees (so shaped due to the wind?) and other magical things and relics found, like the remains of magical cigarette like objects which I guessed weren’t quite so old, I found myself transported to another time and place.
Incidentally, I also noticed that Avebury itself with its hard to miss Stone Circles and ring, was not visible from here, nor was the equally hard to miss Silbury Hill... or anything for that matter, even though we were quite high up. Interesting, we thought. All of it was hidden by series of natural banks, hills and and hollows, and probably deliberately. So with this in mind we sought out the other Barrows that could be seen from the Avebury Ring itself.. and sure enough found them a little further down (up?) northward along the Ridgway.
Crossing the harevested cornfields in the undulating counyryside we got to these Barrows.. two of them, or so we thought.. standing out magestically from the hill side. One covered in trees and one ‘bald’ one... (rather it was covered in nettles). On exploring the Tree covered mound, it was like entering a fairyland with the eerie sculpted trees adorning its form. From here we could see another barrow much further down the hill side.... and also (finally) Avebury Ring itself...
On leaving these mounds, tramping through the crisp cut, corn stubble we chanced to turn back and saw, to our astonishment, what looked like a third mound next to these two we had just explored.. how could we have missed THAT? we thought... how indeed...
Avebury ring & Stone Circle partially visible in the distance from the Barrows of Avebury Down... (the bald one & the tree-covered one visible from the ring), with the Lansdown Monument even further away in the heat haze...
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..and now for something completely different! a lone stone at sunset.
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West Kennet Long Barrow from the top of a barrow at Overton, on the Ridgeway.
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Two of the Barrows near/by the Ridgeway as seen from Avebury Ring
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Two of the group of six Barrows by the Ridgeway at Overton Hill
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The Sun piercing through the Solstice mists, with ancient and modern awaiting alike...
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From a Barrow to a Barrow (or three), with a ditch surrounding the first one, in between...
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From a barrow to a barrow... well sort of..! Silbury Hill from Windmill Hill with a West Kennet Long Barrow lurking somewhere over there to the right of the shot, about 2/3 way up.
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From deep cover.. and from a Barrow to a beetle (black dot in the air)...
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Sunrise at the Summer Solstice.. this picture just about says it all...
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...with absolutely NO photoshop jiggery pockery whatsoever, this scene at the Solstice revelry at Avebury could really have been taken thousands of years ago... If only they had cameras!
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Silbury Hill through the eyes of West Kennet Long Barrow
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A typical British Sunrise at Stonehenge... I’m sure you all know the one!
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Rock of Ages....
Created with the help of dear ol’ photoshop... from digital images, a cyber paintbrush and a fair amount of imagination...
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In amongst the Buttercups....
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