For #StandingStoneSunday, here is a 1920s self-portrait by Oscar Färdig, a rural autodidact photographer, my great great grandmother's brother. He is standing by the great Iron Age menhirs of Stenehed (appropriately meaning "Stone Heath", likely refering to the monuments). ⚱️
The Fingers of Gurannes, Co Cork, Ireland. #StandingStoneSunday
The Fingers of Gurannes, Co Cork, Ireland.
#StandingStoneSunday
Augerum Menhir standing stone in Sweden in Blekinge. The Stone is in the garden of a church. Augerum Church is located next to the Lyckebyån river. It is assumed that the church was built next to stone or the stone was rather moved here from its original place. #StandingStoneSunday
The Bedd Arthur stone circle on the Preseli Mountains in Pembrokeshire with Carn Menyn and Foeldrygarn in the background and a blue sky horizon. Photo also features the skull of a sheep on one of the stones, as found there and not placed there for photographic effect by the author.
Bedd Arthur, Mynydd Preseli, Sir Penfro 📷 18.04.23
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#Stunday #LandscapePhotography
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A small and very pitted menhir stands on a patch of carefully mown grass. Card behind are queuing for petrol or parked beside a new wooden chalet/lodge. The stone itself is shaped like the number 1 and pitted like pumice. You could fit your hand into the largest hole.
The Tibblestone, an ancient pitted stone on a crossroads near Tewkesbury on a garage forecourt. Lost and found buried by a gardener in 1948. One of Gloucestershire’s very few standing stones. #StandingStoneSunday #UrbanPrehistory
Something similar above Barmouth wedged into a crack in the bedrock. This one above Wern Mynach, Hendre Mynach and Ffordd Mynach. Mynach is Monk in Welsh !
Wedged in standing stone, seems to have 3 sides at the front tapering to a point, back is flat.
Boundary marker or something else ? High above the Mawddach on Garn fach Cwm Mynach side. Could be work by Cymmer abbey Cistercian monks ?
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#StandingStoneSunday with the Nine Ladies Stone Circle in the Peak District, Derbyshire
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‘That thrush just did something incredible’: tuning in to bird calls on a North York Moors walk
Wonderfull indeed.
But why are these in the Villa? Ultimately "....from the private collection of a British rare manuscript collector."
And how did that collector .... ???
I broke of my visit to the Villa early because I realised that most was "looted" in concession of rich people. It sickned me.
Thanks - perhaps it’s that Saharan dust - just missing a palm tree 😀
A waterfall in a Welsh valley with surrounding Atlantic Rainforest vegetation on a sunny March day.
Nant Cadair, Cadair Idris National Nature Reserve 📷 03.03.26
#WaterfallWednesday #scape
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#PhotographersofBluesky
The moon as a golden orb against a backdrop of layered blackness, and a foreground of silhouetted bare twigs.
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Observing
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If I were a Hollywood superstar, I would go and check this exhibition out: “One of my favorite phrases that I have on a wall of the gallery is ‘May I join with the stars that call out to me in the night boat,’” laist.com/news/los-ang...
🏺 A lovely piece, making me think both of #Neanderthal -bird interactions and how they may have understood signals for when and where birds would appear; and also summoning Bronze Age visual echoes of ducks in marshy landscapes from Akrotiri and Egypt.
A dramatic colourful image of Stoneghenge. The stones are sillouetted in black against a firey-covered sky. The grass is a luminescent green. A robed druid-like figure stands in shadow in front of the stones holding a staff. On a hill in the distance (which does not exist in reality) are a group of shadowy men on horseback, one wielding what can only be described as a long 'thing'.
This Week! On Age of Stonehenge! All the different ways in which this image is wrong, the development of the Chacolithic Britain, defined not just by metalworking but migrations of Beaker-associated groups and interactions with local people who are in the middle of a massive monument binge.
The frontispiece to Ethel Skeat's textbook The Principles of Geography, Physical & Human (1923). Not sure if school geography textbooks still have frontispieces, but, if they do, they probably don't depict Yggdrasil, Nidhögg, 'the little squirrel Ratatösk', 'the great Midgard serpent', etc.
🏺 Humans: "Decorate* ALL THE THINGS!!"
*there's aesthetic beautification, but markings & their makings always hold potential for 'magics' as well
Photo of lovely front cover of book with picture of Vincent van Gogh’s ‘The Olive Trees’ and title ‘Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece. A Philology of Worlds’ by Renaud Gagne.
Photo of text on front cover sleeve defining cosmography.
Have got to stop finding books on Bookfinder that just look completely fabulous when I’m meant to be writing up…
Ollie looking at the Watchstone, which is 5.5m tall. It's a fine, sunny day with blue skies and fluffly clouds. The Loch of Stenness is visible on the right.
#DailyMegalith #StandingStoneSunday
Ollie at the Watchstone, #Stenness #Orkney #Scotland (2018)
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March Hares! ‘I shall go into a hare’…. Painted, engraved stained glass, private collection.
Two ancient copper spoons with decoration on the handles
In honour of #StDavidsDay here are the wonderful Penbryn Spoons, which were found in 1829 beneath a heap of stones inside the Castell Nadolig hillfort, near Penbryn in Ceredigion, Wales. The pair of cast bronze ‘spoons’ date to the Late Iron Age (c. 50 BCE–100 CE).
A photo of St David in stained glass
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus i chi gyd
Happy Birthday 🎈
For #StandingStoneSunday today - the tallest menhir from the alignements at St-Pierre-Quiberon (Morbihan) known as The Great Monk from its distinctive outline. Just over 20 menhirs remain from rows which originally stretched out into the Bay of Quiberon. Card by Henri Laurent in Port-Louis 1905.
A large diamond shape stone 5m tall standing in wet short grass with a misty moorland beyond. A female figure stands, braced against the elements, to the left of the stone
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!
Here's the great Maen Llia menhir, waiting out the millennia high in the Brecon Beacons since the late Neolithic. With a windswept and rainswept human for scale.
#StandingStoneSunday
Another view of Legananny Dolmen, Down, Ireland
Photographed in digital infrared, July 2014
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #megalithic #Neolithic #Infrared #B&W #Black&White #Monochrome #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin #Down
Standing with Stones
I've had a longstanding fascination with ancient religious sites in Britain, and I've decided that this year I'm going to be working on new images inspired by them. In November I showed my new etching and aquatint The Migrants (shown below) at Adam's Gallery in Reigate in an…
Wayland's Smithy from The Ridgeway
