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thesweetcheat

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Audiophile/archaeophile

https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/user/10068

#StandingStoneSunday #HillfortsWednesday

Header picture: A snow-covered ridge of jagged black rock on a mountain side, rising from lower left to top right. A weak winter sun pushes through cloud to illuminate the valley below.

Avatar: A knitted monkey wearing a knitted green hoodie, facing the viewer, sitting on a stone, with a Bronze Age cairn and Ordnance Survey trig pillar behind.

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The final of 2023, so I'd like to thank all the contributors to the hashtag over the last 12 months. I love seeing your pictures (especially the high percentage with alt-text). It was something the migrants brought with us from the other place and the fact it landed so positively has helped my move here greatly.

Here's to lots more standing stones, stone circles, rows and megalithic sites in 2024. I hope you all have a great evening, whether you 'do' New Year or not.

x

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Wishing all the crew a very Happy Christmas!

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@harriettmb ๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿ™„ ๐Ÿ˜‚

thesweetcheat,
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@fkamiah17 @harriettmb FFS, sad, inadequate little man.

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A misty, mizzly day in the northeastern quadrant of Avebury henge for

There was a secondary stone circle and "cove" in this part of the site, within the great circle and henge earthwork. The Cove stones are on the left, one of the surviving stones of the secondary circle on the right.

This visit December 2010.

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One of the stones of West Kennett Avenue for today's

A double row of large sarsens, it once extended all the way from The Sanctuary timber circle to Avebury henge. Fragmentary remains still exist along the road from The Sanctuary. This stone is close to Avebury, with Waden Hill rising behind.

This visit in misty, drizzly December 2010.

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A not-so-standing stone for :

One of the toppled sarsens in the SE quadrant of the great circle inside Avebury henge. This is usually the quietest part of the monument.

This visit in grey December 2010.

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An is it or isn't it standing stone for today's

Built into a Cornish hedge* in the lane leading to Ding Dong mine and Nine Maidens stone circle, this lovely tapering monolith is not recorded as prehistoric, but given the plethora of Bronze Age sites close by, it looks a good bet to me.

This visit after sunset, November 2010.

*formed of two parallel dry stone walls with an earth infill between them, out of which vegetation grows.

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In a world of terrible news stories, this one cheered me up no end.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/23/boy-three-reunited-with-lost-toy-after-monkeys-600-mile-rail-adventure

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Choone Holed Stone at Boleigh in West Penwith, Cornwall, now used as a gatepost. Photographed from the north east on the 1st of February 2003.

thesweetcheat,
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@Vibracobra23 lovely distortion and flare there. I only ever went to this once, I seem to recall it being less exposed but then this was February!

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Approaching sunset, Nine Maidens of Boskednan for

This circle, high on a ridge with panoramic views in all directions, is my favourite of all.

This visit November 2010, towards the end of a lovely autumn walk from St Just to Madron. Portrait, needs a click.

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    @HelenG ๐Ÿคฎ

    mrsjmccrimmon, to DoctorWho
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    With the specials and new series dropping soon, I thought it might be interesting to share our favourite aspects of and maybe find cool people to follow. I shall start:

    Favourite Doctor - 2, 7, 11, 13.

    Favourite Companion - Jamie, Ace and Ryan

    Favourite Story ever - I feel like saying The War Games. Ask me tomorrow and itโ€™ll change

    The thing I want to know more about - 60/70s production history.

    The hill Iโ€™ll die on - Ryan Sinclair was a GREAT companion and 60s Who is the best!

    thesweetcheat,
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    @mrsjmccrimmon

    5 (mine), 4 (apart from the bit in the middle where he got bored), 11 (then all the others, not ranking them)

    Ian and Barbara, Jamie, SJS, Romana, Clara

    Caves of Androzani / Vincent

    Know more about: new things, rather than more origins/backstory/old monsters

    Hill: 13 was great, ignore the haters

    Stoat, to random

    In the middle of starting a fight on Armistice Day with the polis, it is very important that you call them out for not wearing poppies.

    Big crowd of people on a London street. A traditional English football type demands to know where the police officers poppies are.

    thesweetcheat,
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    @Stoat not remembrancing properly.

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    One of the holed stones on Kenidjack Common, West Penwith for today's offering.

    There are five holed stones here (with possible remains of a sixth), upright slabs of hard Cornish granite with a hole bored through by hand tools in the Bronze Age. They stand on the Moor near Tregeseal stone circle.

    This visit November 2010.

    Tristananthony, to vinyl

    Cardiacs. I knew them once. This is their best single. Is This The Life. https://youtu.be/SZaqYkkYK4I?si=MWPA2IjwddAOJqaS

    thesweetcheat,
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    @witewulf @Tristananthony the Day Is Gone EP is brilliant from start to finish. Plankton is particularly good.

    thesweetcheat,
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    @witewulf @Tristananthony I've still not got that compilation, I didn't get round to it for some reason.

    thesweetcheat,
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    @witewulf @Tristananthony just got back from a week in North Wales to a very special parcel. Can't wait to dig into this.

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    1st anniversary of joining Mastodon today, celebrated with a trip to the very lovely Bodnant Gardens, in the Conwy Valley.

    The acers were looking particularly fine, all aflame for autumn.

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    @richardgrant @theappletree thank you both, that's very kind ๐Ÿ™

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    Long shadows for today's the fabulous Boswens menhir on the West Penwith moors.

    The stone is very asymmetrical and looks different from every angle. If you walk along the Tinner's Way below it, the stone appears as a tall figure on the skyline, which turns to watch you as you pass.

    It's intervisible with the marvellous Chรปn Quoit Neolithic tomb.

    This visit on a beautiful autumn day, November 2010.

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    @Vibracobra23 one of the best.

    thesweetcheat,
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    @Vibracobra23 aw, thank you, very kind. This was on my birthday, we walked from St Just to Madron, the walk we usually do (with variations) in the summer.

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    One of my very favourite sites for today's - Tregeseal stone circle, on the West Penwith moors.

    There were originally two circles here, but only a couple of stones remain of the second.

    Inevitably the stones are Maidens turned to stone for dancing on the Sabbath.

    This visit on a beautiful autumn day, November 2010.

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    thesweetcheat,
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    @HelenG a lovely word. I like its application to multi-period landscapes too.

    thesweetcheat,
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    @HelenG I was thinking of multi-period archaeological landscapes (prehistoric cairn passed by a Roman road, with medieval settlement on top, that kind of thing), but definitely urban/built too.

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