Category Archives: Sacred sites

Songs of the Stone: incipit…

Posted on October 26, 2018 by

* The Red, the White, the Green… Some things have to be believed Before they can be seen… * …Even allowing for the earliness of the hour, there were far fewer students than he expected. By long habit his steps … Continue reading →

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Songs of the Stone: parchment…

Posted on October 25, 2018 by

* 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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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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North-easterly: Sidetracked again

Posted on October 8, 2018 by

It doesn’t matter where we go, the habit of rising early for work seems to follow us, so it was no surprise that on the Saturday morning of our recent trip north, we were up and out a long time … Continue reading →

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Notes from a small dog: IndieAni Jones (or the archaeological dog)…

Posted on October 5, 2018 by

I thought we were just going for a walk… but then she opened the car. “In you go, girlie,” she says. “You’re going on an adventure!”  She put my seat belt on and told me to settle down as it … Continue reading →

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Heart and Stone… Stuart France

Posted on October 4, 2018 by

* Long after the tourists, On their metal way, Have come and gone, From Castle Keep… * Continue reading at The Silent Eye

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North-easterly: Sidetracked by stones

Posted on October 3, 2018 by

As the tides would not allow us to cross to Holy Island before eleven, three of us were on the road early to visit a stone circle. It had been a late decision… very late, in fact, but as Gary … Continue reading →

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A Thousand Miles of History XXXX: Seeking sanity…

Posted on September 12, 2018 by

For once we had the forethought to ask the lady in the church for directions to our next port of call…the Holy Well in St Cleer. After our almost accidental visit to the Holy Well at Madron that morning, we … Continue reading →

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A Thousand Miles of History XXXVII: House of the ancestors

Posted on September 7, 2018 by

Our next stop was only about half an hour’s drive from the Templar Church, and the road took us through the silent green of Bodmin Moor. With a long drive still ahead, I restrained myself, albeit barely, from turning aside … Continue reading →

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