Laurence Mitchell

Along the Walsingham Way #Norfolk ##FingerPostFriday

Thank you. That's a lovely flint.

Chalk to Church exhibition, St Margaret’s Gallery, Norwich

I am currently involved in an art exhibition at St Margaret's Gallery, St Benedicts St, Norwich. The exhibition is mixed media, with paintings by Poppy Mathews (@poppymathewsart) and photographs and text by me. It is all very flint-themed…

Canal signpost, below Gravelly Hill Interchange ('Spaghetti Junction'), Birmingham #FingerpostFriday

Flint Country – Category Winner in East Anglian Book Awards 2025

LATEST NEWS I'm delighted to announce that Flint Country has won the the General Non-Fiction category for the 2025 East Anglian Book Awards. It was up against some very worthy opposition and I am thrilled that it has been chosen by…

Lovely. Watch out for fulmars nesting.

Stone and lichen guardians of Machrie Moor, Arran, Scotland #StandingStoneSunday

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A slow torrent of lichen, Machrie Moor, Arran, Scotland ##StandingStoneSunday

The last walk of 2025. West Runton to Cromer, Norfolk. Wishing you all the very best for 2026.

Long Meg (without Her Daughters), near Penrith, Cumbria. Part of the third widest Neolithic stone circle in England. Cup and ring marks and a spiral (similar to those at Newgrange and Knowth, Ireland) can be clearly seen on surface. #StandingStoneSunday

Just wear yellow and green - you'll be fine.

Christmas turnaround #Norwich #StPeterMancroft #church #Christmas #carousel

In my ignorance, I didn't realise there was a live stream of the event. Anyway, my name is down for the lottery, so I have got about a million to one chance of seeing it myself next year.

Today is the day the rising sun shines through the roof chamber at #Newgrange in Ireland. It marks the turning of the year and the return of light on the shortest day. Happy solstice #winter #solstice

Worried-looking dragon. 15th century bench end. St Mary's #church, North Elmham #Norfolk #woodensday

Such a wonderful place. I was lucky enough to be able to visit it in October and spend a few minutes inside. I also put my name down for the 'lottery', in which a selected few are invited inside to witness the winter solstice. About a million to one odds but fingers crossed.

Wherryman's Way, River Chet, Chedgrave, Norfolk #FingerPostFriday

Nine Ladies (actually ten) stone circle, Stanton Moor, Derbyshire. Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age. In a clearing of birch trees, these stones of millstone grit were once believed to be women who had been turned to stone as punishment for dancing on the sabbath #StandingStoneSunday

A glorious range of colour variation in these roughly knapped flints in the wall of Holy Trinity Church, Loddon #Norfolk #FlintFriday

It was a wonderful lecture; so focused and clear. The BBC censorship surely just amplifies the main thrust of your argument.

Ty-Newydd #Neolithic burial chamber #Anglesey #Wales ##TombTuesday

Megaliths, Colonsay, Scotland #StandingStoneSunday

Gorleston was Gorleston ere Yarmouth Begun, Raveningham Sculpture Trail, Norfolk #fingerpostfriday

Not so much for the dead as of the dead. Capela dos Ossos (Bone Chapel), part of the 18th century Carmelite church, Nossa Senhora do Carmo in Faro, Portugal, which contains the bones of over 1000 Carmelite friars #TombTuesday

Two of the taller megaliths of Pobull Fhinn stone circle on slope of Ben Langlass, Isle of North Uist. Probably 2nd millennium BCE. The circle is actually an oval c 27 x 38 metres. About two dozen stones remain in total. #StandingStoneSunday #Scotland

Dejected signpost, Norfolk #FingerpostFriday

A thin place, Iona #Samhain #Halloween

Kerry Ridgeway, Shropshire/Powys border #FingerpostFriday

The resting place of Sir John Soanes, polymath and architect of the Bank of England, St Pancras Old Church graveyard, London. His tomb later to be inspiration for the iconic K1 red telephone box #TombTuesday