Category Archives: England

North-easterly: In face of history

Posted on October 18, 2018 by

We could hardly spend so much time in the churchyard at Rudston without visiting the church. While the Monolith alone was worth the long detour from our route home,  we were quite interested to see what kind of place had … Continue reading →

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North-easterly: Sidetracked and gobsmacked

Posted on October 13, 2018 by

We had chosen to take a very long route home for one simple reason… there was something we wanted to see that was never going to be on our way to anywhere. So the possible three hour journey took us … Continue reading →

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North-easterly: Waylaid by wyverns

Posted on October 12, 2018 by

We didn’t have to go back the long way, but we did. My companion, knowing full well that the moors of North Yorkshire would be calling, and responding to squeaks from the driver’s seat as the hills came into view, … Continue reading →

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Guest author: Roberta Eaton ~ The Sutton Hoo Helmet

Posted on September 9, 2018 by

Background Since its discovery in 1939, the Sutton Hoo Helmet has been a highly evocative symbol of Anglo Saxon England. The discovery of the Sutton Hoo Helmet The excavation of the grave barrows or mounds at Sutton Hoo was at … Continue reading →

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A Thousand Miles of History XXIII: The mating dance

Posted on August 15, 2018 by

We stood at the gate in hushed awe. For a moment it seemed as if we were looking through a rift in the mists of time, back to an age that has passed beyond memory, when the land was still … Continue reading →

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A Thousand Miles of History XXI: The land that time forgot

Posted on August 11, 2018 by

We stood on the clifftop just beyond Ballowall Barrow, marvelling at the beauty of the seascape, or what we could see of it through the gathering mist. The bracken was already thigh-high, covering the fractured stone with a green blanket … Continue reading →

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A Thousand Miles of History XX: Ghosts in the wildflowers

Posted on August 10, 2018 by

We headed back the way we had come, to take the narrow turning we had missed…a fortuitous misstep which had allowed us to see Cape Cornwall. We were looking for an old tin-mining site where, once upon a time, something … Continue reading →

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A Thousand Miles of History XVI: The house of the raven…

Posted on August 3, 2018 by

We could have chosen to visit Chysauster, that being the biggest and best preserved of the ancient settlements in the area, but that very fact means it is more likely to be full of people… and it was the lives … Continue reading →

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A Thousand Miles of History X: Mist and mystery

Posted on July 26, 2018 by

It took us about an hour to drive the twenty-odd miles from Brentor to the Cornish village of Minions on Bodmin moor. There were two sites that we wanted to visit, both of them on the Michael Line, the ley … Continue reading →

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A Thousand Miles of History IV: Where the earth leads your feet…

Posted on July 18, 2018 by

While the workshop weekend was officially over, the adventure had only just begun. We said farewell to the Cumbrian contingent, who had a very long drive ahead of them, and the rest of us headed into Dorchester in search of … Continue reading →

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