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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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HelenG, to random
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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.

    Vibracobra23, to random
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    Beersheba Menhir, a 3.2m tall standing stone near Lelant in West Penwith, Cornwall, photographed from the north-north-east on 22 February 2003.

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    @Vibracobra23 never made it to this one, got close a couple of times but prevented by bullocks. Now it's all fenced off with horses.

    thesweetcheat,
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    @Vibracobra23 I wish I had tried harder!

    thesweetcheat,
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    @Vibracobra23 ironically that was one of the first we went to, but quite often there are cows there too. My 'big two' most-wanted for Penwith are still the Giant's Craw and Tregeseal chambered tombs, I never have the time or energy somehow. Still quite a lot of individual stones we haven't been to there as well. Try is probably the best one we haven't visited after Beersheba. Do you ever get down that way now?

    thesweetcheat,
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    @Vibracobra23 yeah, trains are scarily expensive now. We're a lot closer to Cornwall than you but it's still not a cheap destination. Good to have a reason to go down though. I have been loving your scans on TMA.

    thesweetcheat,
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    @Vibracobra23 ♥️

    thesweetcheat, to random
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    A rare foray for me to the megalithic desert of Cambridgeshire for ; this is the Peterborough Stone, a small upright slab right in the city centre, of presumed Bronze Age date.

    Visited evening and morning, November 2010.

    An upright stone slab, seen from its wide side, early in a grey autumn morning. It stands in an open grass square, surrounded by buildings. A tree is stands behind on the left, its leaves orange. A TARDIS blue door under a portico is behind on the right. Fallen leaves surround the stone.

    thesweetcheat, to random
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    Going remote and obscure for today's ;

    Gelli Hill stone circle, in the quiet hills east of Llandrindod Wells, mid-Wales. The circle itself is quite ruined, most of the stones fallen. A slab lies inside the circle. There's also an outlier and the site is intervisible with a fine Bronze Age cairn on top of the hill.

    Visited in very changeable weather, October 2010. Blog post here: https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/111400/over_gelli_hill_the_hawk_hangs_still_23_october_2010.html

    Forest_Jungle_Collective, to cymru
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    with Meini Dirion or 'the Gentle Stones' just outside of Bridgend 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

    thesweetcheat,
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    @Forest_Jungle_Collective ooh, why haven't I been to these?

    thesweetcheat, to folklore
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    Off to the Forest of Dean for today's offering; The Long Stone near Staunton.

    It's right next to a busy road, but if you can block that out it's a really lovely, tapering 7 foot tall stone in a beautiful woodland setting. (Portrait, needs a click)

    In folklore, if you prick the stone with a pin at the stroke of midnight, it will bleed.

    Visited October 2010.

    Vibracobra23, to random
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    New upload:

    Th' Faith Healers - Love In Sesh (Peel Session)

    Love In Sesh [My Loser] by Th' Faith Healers, taken from the Peel Session recorded on 5 July 1992.

    https://youtu.be/XZwwgaWMQtw

    thesweetcheat,
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    @Vibracobra23 this is an excellent session, remember it at the time as I hadn't heard them before.

    thesweetcheat, to random
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    A day of fine views and mostly poor archaeology today; a 13 mile horseshoe walk from Pontardawe around the head of the Afon Egel valley, the ridges marked with about a dozen Bronze Age cairns, nearly all sadly robbed out to the point of non-existence.

    Great views of Y Mynydd Ddu and the high hills of the western valleys. Luckily the best cairn of the day came near the end, on the descent back to Pontardawe.

    A fine Bronze Age cairn of stones with a central scoop on a grassy hillside. Long views towards a higher wooded ridge in the distance.

    sharongascoigne, to random

    An old favourite for
    https://open.spotify.com/album/2KWHRfKSRpgsxNGIl2nQva

    thesweetcheat,
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    @sharongascoigne solid gold.

    Forest_Jungle_Collective, to cymru
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    with the Tinkinswood Burial Chamber 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿while it has a huge, 40 ton capstone, from futher back you can appreciate its overall form

    thesweetcheat,
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    @Forest_Jungle_Collective Smashing photo of it, what a great site.

    thesweetcheat, to random
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    A brilliant group who deserve loads more praise. Marlene Marder was a terrific, innovative guitarist.

    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/oct/02/soft-sandwiches-street-fights-and-surrealism-marlene-marders-memoir-of-swiss-punks-kleenexliliput

    thesweetcheat, to Scotland
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    A rather belated offering today; the ruined remains of Miltown of Clava chambered tomb and surrounding stone circle, a short walk to the NE of the famous Balnuaran of Clava cairns.

    Although wrecked, the stone circle still has this mighty and magnificent 'playing card' stone (using Aubrey Burl's term).

    Visited on a rather overcast day in October 2010.

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    thesweetcheat,
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    @HelenG been listening to this album and SAWII a lot recently.

    thesweetcheat,
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    @HelenG both great albums.

    Forest_Jungle_Collective, to random
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    still at the Margam stones museum 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 with the Bodvoc stone late c6/early c7
    with the oldest recorded welsh family history

    translated '[the stone of] Bodvoc, here he lies, son of Cattegern, great grandson of Eternalis Vedomavus'

    thesweetcheat,
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    @Forest_Jungle_Collective I keep meaning to go up to where this was originally situated (there may even be a replica there), it's an area rich with prehistoric stuff.

    thesweetcheat,
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    @Forest_Jungle_Collective ah, fantastic. The hillfort is high on my list to visit.

    Forest_Jungle_Collective, to random
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    & was unreasonably excited to see this - the recreated neolithic sweet track from the Avalon Marshes
    The original built in around 3800BC to cross the waterlogged landscape

    thesweetcheat,
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    @Forest_Jungle_Collective ooh, wow. That's fabulous. I've never been there, I really should. Great picture.

    thesweetcheat, to Scotland
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    The magnificent Balnuaran of Clava for today's . Three large cairns, each surrounded by stone circles, in the Nairn valley near Culloden. There is also a small kerbed cairn. Several of the stones are decorated with cup-marks. The site has given us the 'Clava cairn' type for a group of cairns spread over an area from the Cairngorms to the Black Isle. Just wonderful.

    This visit October 2010.

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    thesweetcheat,
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    @rabbit_fighter @bookstodon I've bookmarked this thread, lots of great recommendations 😁

    fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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    This needs infiltrating.

    Fifty quid's a bit exorbitant for cat food. What's the other £49.70 going on?

    thesweetcheat,
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    @fkamiah17 "comedy legend" - the only good thing I can find to say about this is that at least that racist is no longer peddling his abhorrent "comedy" on prime time TV.

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