Tag Archives: standing stone

Rock music ~ the sound of prehistory

Posted on November 2, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Way back when the world was warm and the sun remembered to shine, our friend, Gary Vasey, came over from the Czech Republic for a weekend. It was to be our second meeting in the going-on-fifteen-years that we have been … Continue reading →

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Forty-Five Degrees of Separation… Stuart France

Posted on October 19, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* There’s here And there’s there… Nobody knows quite what or where there is Everybody thinks they know what and where here is… Continue reading at Stuart France

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Father Bear… Stuart France

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Sue Vincent

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

Posted on October 14, 2018 by Sue Vincent

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

Posted on October 13, 2018 by Sue Vincent

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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Stanton Drew ~ Stuart France

Posted on October 8, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* Names matter. For practical purposes they are like elephants and flowing water. They follow the shortest, flatest path to wherever they are going, and en route the jagged edges first get smoothed and then get worn away. In this … Continue reading →

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Hagiology… Stuart France

Posted on September 29, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* How big is the body? * * Big as a house… * * Big as a temple… ** Big as a mountain… * Continue reading at Stuart France

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The Last Witch to be Burnt in Perthshire ~ James Elkington

Posted on September 28, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from Mountains, Myths and Moorlands: NN87980 24321 Along the A822 road past Crieff and then Gilmerton, shortly past here is a small road to Monzie and the Glenturret Distillery or Famous Grouse Experience. Go on this road and after … Continue reading →

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In Hack-Pen Hedge… Stuart France

Posted on September 20, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Animism 1. Doctrine that the soul is the vital principle of organic development. 2. Attribution of conscious life or spirits to nature or natural phenomena. 3. Belief in the existence of spirits separable from bodies. “There’s a large stone in … Continue reading →

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The Hooded Stone… Stuart France

Posted on September 17, 2018 by Sue Vincent

“It has to be the Stone on Gardom’s Edge…” “What does?” says Wen. “My Robin Hood Stone… I mean it didn’t look much like the stone on Gardom’s Edge but that could have been the angle.” I study the sketch … Continue reading →

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