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Labarum
13-02-2009, 11:39
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/4602637/The-essence-of-Stonehenge.html

I live about half an hour's drive from here.

Beechwoods
13-02-2009, 16:29
Oh wow... Stonehenge is an amazing place. I would love to go there when it's properly open to the public and you can go up to the stones. My daughter was born on the summer solstice and one day we will go there when it's open for midsummer. It was smaller than I'd anticipated when we visited for the first time. And I do so wish that they would get rid of the main road that runs within feet of one of the heel stones. They've been talking about it for years!

I must admit though that I find Avebury a more profoundly impressive monument to our early ancestors - for those who haven't yet visited Avebury, do - it is a village surrounded by standing stones, avenues and a woodhenge, not to mention Silbury Hill which is a curious mandmade hill with some very impressive symetry to the horizon and other landmarks when viewed from certain locations around Avebury.

The village has a good pub too!

Mike
13-02-2009, 21:34
Looks kinda spooky! :sofa:



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01294/gary-newman_1294806i.jpg

John
13-02-2009, 21:45
Agree with Beechy Avebury really does it for me too but fantastic pic
Also worth visiting West Kinnet close to Silbury Hill
Good pubs always help!!!!

Spectral Morn
03-03-2009, 22:33
Oh wow... Stonehenge is an amazing place. I would love to go there when it's properly open to the public and you can go up to the stones. My daughter was born on the summer solstice and one day we will go there when it's open for midsummer. It was smaller than I'd anticipated when we visited for the first time. And I do so wish that they would get rid of the main road that runs within feet of one of the heel stones. They've been talking about it for years!

I must admit though that I find Avebury a more profoundly impressive monument to our early ancestors - for those who haven't yet visited Avebury, do - it is a village surrounded by standing stones, avenues and a woodhenge, not to mention Silbury Hill which is a curious mandmade hill with some very impressive symetry to the horizon and other landmarks when viewed from certain locations around Avebury.

The village has a good pub too!

Hi Nick do you remember the very dark and scary tv show THE CHILDREN OF THE STONES. It was set in Avebury. Every time I see that village surrounded by stones I think of alien forces at work and people being taken over or turned to stone...... Some day I will see if I can get it on DVD and see if its still as scary as I remember it.

http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/postcard-avebury.jpg

http://www.bugbog.com/images/galleries/england_pictures/avebury-map.jpg

http://www.greenfarmholidays.co.uk/images/avebury.jpg

I must say that I like the pictures of Callanish on Shetland or Carnac in France (spelling may be wrong)...not been there though...to either.

Callanish

http://www.powernatureessences.com/callanish.jpg

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~aburnham/bigpic13/callanish_sun_7_16hi.jpg

Carnac

http://www.linternaute.com/sortir/sorties/nature/lieux-mysterieux/carnac/diaporama/images/1.-carnac%5B1%5D.jpg

http://nicopalm.free.fr/2/accueil/carnac.jpg

Just off shore to Carnac this stone circle is part submerged.

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/a558/a312/gallery/France/Brittany/Carnac_Area/Er-Lannic/er_lannic_aerial_1.jpg



Regards D S D L---Neil :)

anthonyTD
03-03-2009, 22:50
Looks kinda spooky! :sofa:



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01294/gary-newman_1294806i.jpg
have no fear mike its just an old alian space craft landing pad :eyebrows:
:lolsign:

ultraviolet
03-03-2009, 23:19
I like this pic from the winter solstice - that's my wife and I in the centre (black coat green coat). We're very photogenic don't you think ;)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/image_galleries/winter_solstice_2007_gallery.shtml

It was flippin freezin'

Beechwoods
04-03-2009, 06:57
Hi UV! You're very lucky to have your very own BBC photographer :lol:

Neil - I must have managed to miss that TV thing (Children Of The Stones) but Avebury is only an hour or so down the road, so we go a couple of times a year. The pictures of Carnac were great. I've never been there though I would very much like to. I have been to Bretagne / Brittany a good few times and that has the feel of Cornwall, with all the standing stones there. The language is very similar too.

One place I've also wanted to go to is Newgrange, particularly after hearing Clannad's song about the place. Some great pictures here: http://blather.net/blather/2004/04/photographs_of_newgrange.html

Spectral Morn
04-03-2009, 09:14
Hi UV! You're very lucky to have your very own BBC photographer :lol:

Neil - I must have managed to miss that TV thing (Children Of The Stones) but Avebury is only an hour or so down the road, so we go a couple of times a year. The pictures of Carnac were great. I've never been there though I would very much like to. I have been to Bretagne / Brittany a good few times and that has the feel of Cornwall, with all the standing stones there. The language is very similar too.

One place I've also wanted to go to is Newgrange, particularly after hearing Clannad's song about the place. Some great pictures here: http://blather.net/blather/2004/04/photographs_of_newgrange.html


Hi Nick


Would you believe that I have been very close to New Grange having gone to the Slain rock festival (both in the Bonne valley). The Irish Government have started a road building project in this area which will effect a number of areas of historical interest including the hill of Tara area. The experts think there is a massive amount of finds still to be made in this area, and the new motorway may destroy them. Tara is the area that was the ancient capital of Ireland and the seat of power of the High King of Ireland. This area is similar to the English Avebury....Stone Henge area (Wiltshire in general) ...imaging building a three lane motorway over and through those sites of ancient history, with little regard for them...stupid.:steam:


Regards D S D L---Neil :(

Beechwoods
04-03-2009, 09:28
I'm aware of the Hill of Tara plan. It's the 21st century equivalent of the dissolution of the monasteries. In years to come people will look back and curse the bureaucrats who stole a place of intense beauty and historical importance from their children.

http://www.tarawatch.org/

Spectral Morn
04-03-2009, 09:41
I'm aware of the Hill of Tara plan. It's the 21st century equivalent of the dissolution of the monasteries. In years to come people will look back and curse the bureaucrats who stole a place of intense beauty and historical importance from their children.

http://www.tarawatch.org/



I agree. This part of Ireland is in fact the historical origin of the country in terms of ancient pre-Christian religion, art, writing, music , king ship etc. It would be like finding Avalon and building a road through it.


Regards D S D L----Neil :steam:

Filterlab
04-03-2009, 20:01
Looks kinda spooky! :sofa:



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01294/gary-newman_1294806i.jpg

Nice shot, no doubt taken in the pitch black with a long shutter speed on a breezy cloudy night. Easy once you know how. ;)

The Grand Wazoo
07-03-2009, 15:18
If you're interested in all this stuff, you should read Julian Cope's book

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/the_books/

Beechwoods
07-03-2009, 16:50
I haven't got it but I have heard about it. He features a little hill about 10 miles away from us which we can see from our bedroom window, which was an old Saxon site... we've been meaning to go an investigate it for a few years, but it's a tough trek a few miles uphill. Difficult with a pushchair! :doh:

The Grand Wazoo
07-03-2009, 19:00
My wife gave me a signed copy when it was first published (we have friends who own a bookshop). I was pretty chuffed with it as a gift because we often used to visit circle & what have you (especially the tiny ones - we found that Ireland is stuffed full of them). Also, of course I love his music!

As a teenager, I once joked about a half formed plan to make a chalk man, or horse, or something similar under the canopy of a woodland on the South Downs where I lived - which would be left to weather naturally, unseen by the world. Sooner or later, a fire (not set by me!) would eventually uncover the existence of the 'Great Lost Neolithic Watsit of West Sussex' - the ultimate crop circle!!

Needless to say I'm far to lazy for such an endeavour! (Still, at least the joke never offended anybody).