Tag Archives: stone circles

IndieAni Bones, all the King’s Men and the Fairies

Posted on June 6, 2020 by

“In you go, girlie,” she says, holding the car door open. “We’re going on another adventure!” Well, it was a while ago now, but I remember it as clear as day. She put my seat belt on and told me … Continue reading →

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A Thousand Miles of History X: Mist and mystery

Posted on June 3, 2020 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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Indie-Ani Bones ~ The Small Dog does archaeology

Posted on May 23, 2020 by

When we are all allowed to go out and play together, my two-legses sometimes let me share their adventures. It depends if there are going to be sheep and stuff. Not that I mind sheep… much… but ‘pparently, the sheep … Continue reading →

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The Memories of Stone ~ Alethea Kehas #writephoto

Posted on February 28, 2020 by

Some say the giants are still here Their memories held inside the stones They watch the movement of time and grimace at our indifference Some weep for lack of care Borrowing water from the sky Continue reading at The Light … Continue reading →

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The Flickering Present ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on February 20, 2020 by

I’ve taken a lot of photographs during the past ten years, but none of them like the one above. Taken at Castlerigg Stone Circle, near Keswick, in December 2018, it depicts what I’ve called the ‘green flame’. The photo was … Continue reading →

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Written in stone

Posted on November 3, 2019 by

There has been a bit of a preoccupation around here lately with stone. Between the recent and forthcoming workshops we will have visited a fair number of stone circles, standing stones and burial chambers and it might be tempting to … Continue reading →

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The Wicker-Tree… Stuart France

Posted on May 23, 2019 by

* Why meet again, we three? To quell a raging psychopath… and tell the Way of the Wicker-Tree. * Why we three? Why a circle? Why a dance? * Continue reading at The Silent Eye

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Elusive realities: The touch of the past..? II

Posted on April 6, 2019 by

Continuing from yesterday’s post: We had visited one of the more obscure sites in Derbyshire. It was one we did not know well, so  spending time with the stones, hidden away within a copse of trees, was something we felt … Continue reading →

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Elusive realities: The touch of the past..?

Posted on April 5, 2019 by

We visit a lot of ancient sites and, over the years, have developed both a set of ideas and a bit of a ‘feel’ for these places. Some of those ideas have later been borne out by research into the … Continue reading →

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A Sea of Souls ~ Willow Willers

Posted on December 13, 2018 by

Reblogged from willowdot21: This is a mystical moment from this past weekend spent in Cumbria with The Silent Eye. The weekend was entitled The Full Circle : Finding your way home. It was late morning on the second day of … Continue reading →

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