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A Preponderance of Stone: Pentre Ifan… Stuart France

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Sue Vincent

Images and Text from the Silent Eye Workshop: Whispers in the West… * Angles of Approach… * Concord of Stones… * Step forward Spirit… * Claws of what?… * Continue reading at The Silent Eye

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Portraits…

Posted on February 13, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* Photographing stones… * * Is not like photographing people. * Continue reading at The Silent Eye

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Ambushed by Stone…

Posted on February 5, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* Not content with capturing one rather large stone circle, under rapidly darkening skies, we set off in pursuit of another. Which was a mistake. For one thing, we got lost… * * And then we ran into this motley … Continue reading →

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North-easterly: Intriguing Anomalies

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Sue Vincent

Two things struck me as we entered the State Rooms to look around the public parts of Bamburgh castle. The first was that the collection of objects that were on display was vast, rich and deserving of much more attention … Continue reading →

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Some of them… Stuart France

Posted on January 29, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* I had half expected the town to be deserted. That is Memory again. It acts like  some indifferent film director moving extras around, concerned only with their ebb and flow. Over time the ‘peripherals’ fade leaving only the ‘principals’ … Continue reading →

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Shadow Play…

Posted on January 23, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* ‘Shadowing’ is our term for the phenomenon whereby a standing stone, or group of stones, recreates a distant landscape feature and thereby renders it immediately apparent or tangible. Most other megalithic writers on the subject have also, independently, recognised … Continue reading →

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Wish you were here… Stuart France

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* In Olden Times, Holidays were originally just that… Holy Days. The whole community would lay aside their work day duties and together engage in deeply or intrinsically symbolic activities which related to the situation that they all found themselves … Continue reading →

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A Red-Haired Boy…

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* … The king immediately ordered a tower be built on a densely wooded isle off the coast of his lands and had his daughter put in the tower away from all danger. Nine home-steads about the foot of the … Continue reading →

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Circles Beyond Time ~ The Serpent Stones

Posted on October 25, 2020 by Sue Vincent

We followed the earthen avenue from Gib Hill to the banks of Arbor Low. You do not really get a clear impression of where you are here; the roads climb steadily as they cross the undulating landscape and, by the … Continue reading →

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Circles Beyond Time ~ Mysterious Mounds

Posted on October 24, 2020 by Sue Vincent

The weather was surprisingly good. Normally when we visit this particular site it is freezing cold, driving rain or both, for the last stretch of our journey would take us to Arbor Low, one of the finest ancient sites in … Continue reading →

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