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thesweetcheat

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Audiophile/archaeophile

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#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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UncleDuke1969, to random

Heart racing, I run, the slapping of webbed feet just behind me. I stumble twice, but reach the car and slam the door, howling in triumph. Turning the key, I’m greeted with a dry clicking sound. The blood freezes in my veins. From outside the window, I hear a dark, throaty laugh.

thesweetcheat,
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@airwhale @UncleDuke1969

When you’re down beside the lake you’re bound to hear
When you’re down beside the lake you’re bound to hear
When you’re down beside the lake you’re bound to hear somebody say:
“Careful now, that swan can break your arm”

@muninnherself

thesweetcheat,
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@airwhale @UncleDuke1969 @muninnherself

They did! Half Man Half Biscuit; it's sung to the tune of She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain 😀

Meant to tag @hmhbLyrics as well.

thesweetcheat, to Scotland
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A suburban setting for today's offering;

Aviemore cairn and stone circle in the Scottish Highlands. A monument of the 'Clava' type, a kerb of stones enclosing a (now gone) burial cairn, with a surrounding stone circle. It's in a little suburban street now, but has views towards the Cairngorms.

This visit October 2010.

thesweetcheat, to HikingPics
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A quick bit of action for you this evening. A couple of sheep give scale to Big Scenery.

Tyrrau Mawr and Craig-y-Llyn, two of the satellite peaks of Cader Idris, both sporting fine Bronze Age cairns, rising above Llyn Cyri. From a wonderful walk from Abermaw (Barmouth) this time last year.

thesweetcheat, to random
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Megaliths of Dartmoor's south for today's - A mix of Neolithic chambered tombs (a rarity on Dartmoor) and Bronze Age stone rows:

Clockwise from top left:

-Cuckoo Ball chambered tomb
-Glasscombe Corner stone row
-Corringdon Ball stone row - remains of the terminal cairn circle
-Corringdon Ball chambered long barrow

Visited on a glorious walk from Ivybridge railway station, August Bank Holiday 2010

Two parallel rows of small stones heads away downhill from the viewpoint. The stones are not very large and barely protrude above the turf. The rows lead the eye down to the upper reaches of a valley, with some trees in it. The ground rises again beyond, green and grassy. A figure can be seen standing in the middle distance on the left.
A ruined chamber of a long barrow, comprising two leaning and several prone granite slabs. The earthen mound around the stones is badly eroded from livestock grazing and using the stones as rubbing posts. Higher ground rises beyond, a green ridge. The sky is blue with cotton wool clouds.
An arc of six small granite upright stones protrudes from the turf in the foreground. This is the remaining kerb of a cairn circle which was the terminus of a stone row. The ground slopes gently down to a valley below, before rising again to a green hillside. Silhouetted on the top of the ridge is a long, prominent mound; this is Corringdon Ball long barrow.

thesweetcheat, to folklore
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The Four Stones, Radnorshire, for today's

A circle of four chunky glacial erratics, the stones sit below the lovely Radnor Forest mountains, and their rounded shapes mirror The Whimble.

In folklore they memorialise four Kings killed in battle, and go down to Hindwell Brook to drink at midnight.

A very important place for me personally. This visit August 2010 after a long wet and misty walk over the mountains.

pwaring, to random
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Really enjoying The Algebraist so far. Iain M. Banks is one of a handful of authors where I like everything I've read (even Pratchett has some duds IMO).

thesweetcheat,
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@pwaring yeah, all his M. books are terrific.

sharongascoigne, to vinyl

Having a chilled out afternoon playing some .
Currently listening to Wish by

thesweetcheat,
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@sharongascoigne put your hands in the sky!

Vibracobra23, to random
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Try Menhir, standing at about 9ft or 2.75m tall, at Trye Farm near Mulfra in West Penwith, Cornwall. Photographed from the north-west on the 5th of June 2004.

thesweetcheat,
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@Vibracobra23 I've still never been to this one, ridiculously. It always looks like a fine stone.

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@Vibracobra23 yeah, I don't really have an excuse for this one. I have a few Penwith sites like this though, it took me over 20 years to visit Tresvennack Pillar!

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@Vibracobra23 yeah, still plenty to go at. My biggest omissions in the area are still The Giant's Craw near Zennor (which we have seen dozens and dozens of times from the bus) and Tregeseal entrance grave.

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@Vibracobra23 I think access is okay now although there are often bullocks or cattle in the field so you would need to pick your time. Also the farm it belongs to isn't the nearest one and I'm always very lazy when it comes to sites you need to ask to visit. Tregeseal was very overgrown for a long time, but was cleared a couple of years ago.

thesweetcheat,
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@Vibracobra23 yeah, sometimes it makes the site more appealing. Brane would not be the same without its bush! It must admit thick gorse is not so good though. Last time I went to Treen it was starting to disappear, but maybe it's been tidied up now.

thesweetcheat, to random
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Lovely Yellowmead stone circle on Dartmoor for

A very unusual site of concentric stone rings, it may have been a complex cairn originally. It has a visual interrelationship with Sheepstor.

Visited August 2010 in very changeable weather.

thesweetcheat, to random
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Bonus stones for #StandingStoneSunday - the wonderful Nine Stones Close in the Peak District.

Four tall stones remain of this ring, the tallest of any of the Peak District's many stone circles. It has a visual interrelationship with Robin Hood's Stride, a gritstone tor described by Aubrey Burl as resembling a hippopotamus.

Visited just now, on a muggy afternoon.

#PeakDistrict #StoneCircle #RobinHood #AubreyBurl

Vibracobra23, to random
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The first of the standing stones of the Nine Maidens Stone Row near St Columb in Cornwall. Photographed on 12 January 2004.

thesweetcheat,
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@Vibracobra23 this is on my list every year but I never quite summon up the energy to do the bus trek to get there.

thesweetcheat,
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@Vibracobra23 yeah, I have a walking route planned, possibly to take in Pawton Quoit too. It's just a matter of getting my arse in gear!

thesweetcheat, to folklore
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South Wales for today's offering:

Llanfihangel Rogiet standing stone, in Monmouthshire, now hemmed in between the M4 and a busy B-Road, is a 7 foot tall slab of holey limestone. (Portrait, needs a click)

In folklore, it was hurled across the Hafren/Severn from Portishead by the Devil in a fit of temper.

Visited July 2010.

thesweetcheat, to random
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@Vibracobra23 delighted to see your photos on TMA 👍

@Spaceways

thesweetcheat,
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@Vibracobra23 @Spaceways fantastic, will look forward to it!

VikingDublinDogs, to random
  1. I like to think those dogs and ponies are too 😊

Thanks for a great week – Im back to the Iron Age now with my own IRC Project, Making Time !
See some of you at EAA? and others? Maybe round Wood Quay,, we’ll pass each other, while Im feeding seagulls, you'll look quizically and say, aren’t you that wan from Twitter?"
Let's sit and watch the Liffey together and imagine those dragon prowed ships?

I'm done. This was @StillJustRena

thesweetcheat,
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@VikingDublinDogs @StillJustRena fantastic. Have absolutely loved your posts this week R.

thesweetcheat,
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@StillJustRena @VikingDublinDogs splendid!

Deglassco, (edited ) to history

Because of his willingness to play for segregated audiences, throughout much of his life, Louis Armstrong was called a sellout and an Uncle Tom by many Black Americans, But, in 1957, Satchmo blew up-—blasting Eisenhower to bits for not condemning treatment of Black American students in the South. His passionate words made world headlines, alienated many white fans, and divided Black America.

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@blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

thesweetcheat,
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@Deglassco absolutely amazing thread. Thank you so much for this.

Vibracobra23, to Archaeology
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Printed monochrome postcard of the Stronach Standing Stone or Menhir, titled "Druidical Stone and Goat Fell" on the Isle of Arran in Scotland. Published by M. & J. Currie of Brodick, Arran and printed for them by William Ritchie & Sons of Edinburgh in the Reliable Series, № 148/88, c.1910.

thesweetcheat,
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@Vibracobra23 yeah, that really is something. Love Arran.

Forest_Jungle_Collective, to random
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with the Duloe Stone Circle, taken on a sunny afternoon in february

thesweetcheat,
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@Forest_Jungle_Collective that's spectacular in the sunshine, wonderful.

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