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Prehistoric landscapes, skyscapes, cosmology, folklore & nature. Meirionnydd #StandingStones PhD researcher Bournemouth Uni. Cymraes dw i. (She/her).

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[email protected] @philolithia.bsky.social · Feb 23

Another covert portal guardian for #StandingStoneSunday

A tall stone, half covered by a taller hedge, stands as a gatepost for a galvanised farm gate onto a minor country road with view to distant mountains. It is high summer and the different greens of the grass and hedge are vibrant, the mountains purple and the sky bright blue with a spray of white clouds.

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[email protected] @philolithia.bsky.social · 18h

Well done and thanks for sharing - looks great (highlights the sorts of things I would be interested to know)

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Luke Jenkins @lukejenkinsarch.bsky.social · 21h

Fantastic to see the third review of the Research Framework for the Archaeology Wales completed yesterday.

Really important documents, ensuring that we get the best out of Welsh Archaeology.

I was lucky enough to pull together the minor refresh of the Neo and EBA theme.

Congrats all!

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 1d

If you stumbled upon some #fairies, they might offer to take you home: 'Below the wind, in the wind or above the wind'. If you chose the first, they'd drag you along the ground through the undergrowth; the latter, high in the cold airless atmosphere; but 'in the wind', gently home.
#folklore #faerie

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Quintin Lake @quintinlake.bsky.social · 8d

Cadair Idris lost in the mist from the flanks of Rhobell Fawr #442mountains

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Quintin Lake @quintinlake.bsky.social · 3d

Gloaming tones engulf Tyrrau Mawr (‘Big Towers’), part of the Cadair Idris range, as a temperature inversion blankets the Mawddach Estuary. #442Mountains

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘A palette unlike anything in the west’: Ben Okri, Yinka Shonibare and more on how Nigerian art revived Britain’s cultural landscape

To mark a new exhibition at Tate Modern, author Ben Okri and other leading British-Nigerian cultural figures trace the impact of their heritage on their work, and consider its growing influence on the world stage

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Mawddach walks @maffro2000.bsky.social · 2d

Possible standing stone quarry, certainly used by someone !
Cwmnantcol Llanbedr
#standingstonesunday

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Quintin Lake @quintinlake.bsky.social · 2d

A transient baseline from Aran Fawddwy.
At the rear right, the highest peak is Moel Hebog (‘Hill of the Hawk’). At the rear left, the most prominent peak is Moel Ysgyfarnogod (‘Bare Hill of the Hares’), in the Rhinogs. In the foreground, the inversion has filled Cwm Wnion. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#442Mountains

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

George Mackley’s wood engraving The Deserted Farm, 1952

a road crossing a narrow stone bridge, a broken tree, still with leaves, and a larger house by the road side

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Quintin Lake @quintinlake.bsky.social · 2d

Wanderer Above the Sea Fog (after Caspar David Friedrich). The flanks of Aran Fawddwy #442Mountains

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Rob Hudson @robhudson.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday worship.

#OudolfField

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🍂k a r e n @andthenisleep.bsky.social · 3d

— Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

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[email protected] @philolithia.bsky.social · 2d

… and people think Wales is a small place 😂

[email protected] @philolithia.bsky.social · 2d

Crazy clouds for tonight’s sunset over the bay

Photo of pink, orange and grey clouds with the remains of a vapour trail in dark purple and orange layering a bright blue sky and reflected in a calm puce sea with dark silhouetted foliage in the foreground; but, if you look at it upside down, there is a psychedelic tropical beach evening view with puffy pink white horses - crazy I know!

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Mawddach walks @maffro2000.bsky.social · 2d

#StandingstoneSunday contender from the Bwlch Drws Ardudwy route through the Rhinogydd.
Obviously not on any maps

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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 2d

The Druid Stone, Wistman’s Wood #Dartmoor

#StandingStoneSunday

Granite upright stone topped with moss, beside an autumnal wood

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Kath Page @orkat3.bsky.social · 4d

#FindsFriday This unique carving of a woman was discovered in 1880 in a peat bog in Ballachulish near Loch Leven, #Scotland in 1880. Carved from a single piece of alder, the Ballachulish women stands 1.5m tall, has quartz pebbles for eyes and dates to about 600AD. Her purpose is unknown. #IronAge

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[email protected] @philolithia.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Birthday 🎈

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · 5d

'Thor's stone' rising above Thurstaton [=Thorstein+tūn] Heath (Wirral), the latter used for common grazing since time began. The stone’s encircled by a broken ring of peaty ponds, the result of quarrying - but I can't help thinking of other monuments where the juxtaposition was deliberate

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 6d

Morning all.

Photograph by Martin Parr, Isle of Rhum in the background, Isle of Eigg, Scotland, 1998.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 7d

Painting by Kevin Hughes ‘Lane to the Sea.’
Watercolour on paper. Dimensions: not publicly listed

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Annie Worsley @annieworsley.bsky.social · 6d

The stones of Calanais... brooding, magical, other-worldly... a remarkable place especially on a wild Hebridean day.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · Sep 12

Is it #FindsFriday already? 😮

Spectacular La Tene bi-metal plaques unearthed by picnickers in 1963 from under a boulder on the slopes of Cader Idris mountain in north Wales. Pretty lucky!

Part of the spectacular Late Iron Age Talyllyn hoard 🤩. Now on display in National Museum St Fagans

📷 My own

4 ornate metal plaques decorated in the Celtic style, in a museum case

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 25d

For #FindsFriday the extraordinary Late Bronze Age Arthog bucket, a huge & rare 35 litre vessel discovered at the foot of Cader Idris mountain in Eryri/Snowdonia in 1826 🥰

Now on display in the St Fagans archaeology galleries of National Museum Wales

🤔👉 museum.wales/collections/...

📷 My own

A tapering bronze bucket in a museum display

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[email protected] @philolithia.bsky.social · 7d

Oh no - the Banc Tynddol sun disc was in the cabinet - that must be returned 😭 (obv along with everything else that was taken - but that is one of my favourite finds 😭)