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Annus Tumulus – Tomb of the Year… Stuart France

‘Well almost…quite loosely speaking.’ ‘Very loosely speaking.’ ‘And no, it’s not a new quiz show. And nor are there any prizes. A tumulus is an artificial mound.’ ‘And a natural mound is what?’ ‘One that isn’t man made.’ ‘Has it … Continue reading

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Philology… Stuart France

The Camel Mind * * bound, it wanders… * * let loose, it remains.  Reblogged from Stuart France

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Songs of the Stone: parchment…

* Big-Earth… Little-Earth… Bigger-Earth: Earth-Man-Stars. * …On its reverse is scrawled in an uneven hand: “To regain, ‘The Raid’,”… “Seek out the Nine Chief Culdees of Erinn. Then journey with them to the Ogham Stone of Fergus Mc Roy, Continue … Continue reading

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Morphology… Stuart France

* The image of myself * * I have made… * * is part of my environment… * * Continue reading at Stuart France

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Songs of the Stone: wolf…

* The Red, the White, the Green… Some things have to be believed Before they can be seen… * …‘To bring something back into the world that was lost,’ she had said as a prelude to adventure. ‘Kraas’ “We’ll be … Continue reading

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Ontology… Stuart France

* There is… * * no coming to it… * Continue reading at Stuart France

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Sleeping Giant…

…After watching the, again, somewhat recalcitrant sun-up, we decide to head back for breakfast via the cluster of, albeit haphazardly, positioned stones which we have come to call ‘the recumbents’. This is something of a risk, as we do not … Continue reading

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Father Bear… Stuart France

Pentre Ifan * Which translates, ‘Ivan’s Village’ but was also formerly known as, ‘Arthur’s Quoit’. Another ‘quoit’, and only a few miles away from the last one. This seems, if anything, a little unimaginative. Or, alternatively, it could signal a … Continue reading

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Baby Bear… Stuart France

Carreg Coetan Arthur *  Otherwise, ‘Arthur’s Quoit.’ Of which there are a goodly number dotted about our Blessed Isles. Which makes me wonder… It is hard not to regard this Arthur as a giant too. And indeed the folk record … Continue reading

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Mother Bear… Stuart France

Carreg Samson * With a total disregard for tradition we tackled our ‘just right bowl of porridge’ first . It is strange to say, perhaps, but this particular conglomeration of, once covered but now exposed, structured stone did not, initially, … Continue reading

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