MEGALITHS - breaking news, gossip, slander, lies etc.
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Mr. Tea
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Thiiiink! Think whut yurr doiiing!!!
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Murphy
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Found a jazz mag at a cairn near Mam Tor decades ago. Something like Escort, bad lingerie and blue eye-makeup days
It was celebrated trophy for a few years, traded, discarded, mini-biographies after a day out in the Peaks
A mate is doing (tricky currently) a book of aerial drone shots of megalithic sites, so many published get tied up in jargon, poor photographic printing and site reports from the era of Mortimer Wheeler. Not quite the same as the KLF phoning J Cope to say they’d bulldozed one of his favourite man-made landmarks
It was celebrated trophy for a few years, traded, discarded, mini-biographies after a day out in the Peaks
A mate is doing (tricky currently) a book of aerial drone shots of megalithic sites, so many published get tied up in jargon, poor photographic printing and site reports from the era of Mortimer Wheeler. Not quite the same as the KLF phoning J Cope to say they’d bulldozed one of his favourite man-made landmarks
Mr. Tea
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Heh
"If Boris has no record of the original invoice, and won’t pay, he should do the decent thing and hand Stonehenge back."
www.express.co.uk
"If Boris has no record of the original invoice, and won’t pay, he should do the decent thing and hand Stonehenge back."
Stonehenge: Welsh landowner wants monument 'reclaimed'
STONEHENGE should be "reclaimed" from England and "re-erected" in Wales, a landowner has claimed following recent archaeological developments.
www.express.co.uk
Murphy
cat malogen
Good man, I’ll help with the invoice
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www.bbc.co.uk
Oliver is one of those blokes who’d get his hair shaved in certain drunk company. I can picture him waking up from a night on the tiles with an alien Brian Eno cut from Roxy-era and one eyebrow, going nuts about the assault
@Mr. Tea
BBC Two - A History of Ancient Britain, Orkney's Stone Age Temple
Neil Oliver explores a recently-discovered, 5,000-year-old temple in Orkney.
Oliver is one of those blokes who’d get his hair shaved in certain drunk company. I can picture him waking up from a night on the tiles with an alien Brian Eno cut from Roxy-era and one eyebrow, going nuts about the assault
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I've just been watching another programme by the same guy about the same subject - first episode (of three) is available until Saturday: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b087vh70/britains-ancient-capital-secrets-of-orkney-episode-1Good man, I’ll help with the invoice
@Mr. Tea
BBC Two - A History of Ancient Britain, Orkney's Stone Age Temple
Neil Oliver explores a recently-discovered, 5,000-year-old temple in Orkney.
Oliver is one of those blokes who’d get his hair shaved in certain drunk company. I can picture him waking up from a night on the tiles with an alien Brian Eno cut from Roxy-era and one eyebrow, going nuts about the assault
The gist is that recent discoveries of a sizeable Neolithic settlement on the Ness of Brodgar, and the early date and monumental nature of the architecture, suggest that Orkney was a cultural (and perhaps cultic) hub and that it exerted influence on the rest of Britain, even influencing Stonehenge 800 km south. They're so keen on the idea that it comes across virtually as SNP propaganda at a few points. (j/k - sort of.)
Well worth a watch, not least for Chris Packham enthusing over some very cute Orkney voles with significant DNA, and an almost impossibly gorgeous structural engineer (how often do you hear that phrase? - just trust me on this). Gonna watch the second one in a bit.
Murphy
cat malogen
Prehistory is complex. Due to associations of agriculture with land, the idea of boats and sea routes gets lost in interpretations. If you look at Irish myths, the sea and certain deities are tied to coasts and seas, eg the Fomorians and The Book of Invasions
Britain markets its revised notions of empire as “oh we were just really good at sailing”, but the idea of the earliest, most sacred complex being at the extreme edge of inhabitable land is more about liminality. Physical, psychical and topographical “thin places” - land, water and sky. Turner and van Geppep are good sources on liminal domains and liminal mental/emotional states are touched on in various threads here. Mental subject. Same sense chambered tombs are liminal spaces. Delineated, phenomenological languages in architectural order, domus/agrios
Cosmic
Britain markets its revised notions of empire as “oh we were just really good at sailing”, but the idea of the earliest, most sacred complex being at the extreme edge of inhabitable land is more about liminality. Physical, psychical and topographical “thin places” - land, water and sky. Turner and van Geppep are good sources on liminal domains and liminal mental/emotional states are touched on in various threads here. Mental subject. Same sense chambered tombs are liminal spaces. Delineated, phenomenological languages in architectural order, domus/agrios
Cosmic
Don't think it's worth a new thread, but we've booked a week in Pembrokeshire, a couple miles from St Davids. Cornwall's going to be too busy this year,
Any recommendations - megaliths, haunted forests, ley lines, organic butchers, pubs, coves, owl sanctuaries, etc?
Any recommendations - megaliths, haunted forests, ley lines, organic butchers, pubs, coves, owl sanctuaries, etc?
Murphy
cat malogen
Whitesands beach! Being a national coastal park there's loads. The whole of St D's bishop complex is a solid day. Nuts architecture if you go in for the gothic (even in summer it can be creepy). Pentre Ifan is an easy drive north and you could nail Cardigan, Gwbert and Mwnt beach (assuming you're not cycling). Farm food outlets everywhere for fresh, organic proteins. Lush seafood - Freshwater West is doable (45 mins) in the same way Cardigan is, plus
beachfood.co.uk
www.pembrokeshirecoast.wales
Watch your fuel gauge. A487 is tricky for early closing. If you like Black Beef steaks you're in for a riot
Cafe Mor Menu
Please note our prices are subject to change with the changing market, and although we try our very best, seafood availability is also subject to the weather as the conditions have to be right for the Pembrokeshire fishermen to go out! Any item below can be served with a gluten free roll...
beachfood.co.uk
Archaeology - Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
www.pembrokeshirecoast.wales
Watch your fuel gauge. A487 is tricky for early closing. If you like Black Beef steaks you're in for a riot
Cheers, that's a lot to go on. On point advice too, because I need to get a new car between now and then, and I have my eyes on 3.0 litreWhitesands beach! Being a national coastal park there's loads. The whole of St D's bishop complex is a solid day. Nuts architecture if you go in for the gothic (even in summer it can be creepy). Pentre Ifan is an easy drive north and you could nail Cardigan, Gwbert and Mwnt beach (assuming you're not cycling). Farm food outlets everywhere for fresh, organic proteins. Lush seafood - Freshwater West is doable (45 mins) in the same way Cardigan is, plus
Cafe Mor Menu
Please note our prices are subject to change with the changing market, and although we try our very best, seafood availability is also subject to the weather as the conditions have to be right for the Pembrokeshire fishermen to go out! Any item below can be served with a gluten free roll...
Archaeology - Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Watch your fuel gauge. A487 is tricky for early closing. If you like Black Beef steaks you're in for a riot
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
How can anyone like Romanesque architecture better than gothic? What a degenerate.