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peteherring.bsky.social
Cornish and European landscape archaeologist and historian
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The #Stonehenge talk by Mike is definitely on the 12th, but the 12th is not the Thursday, but the Wednesday of next week. See you there! P

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The great avenue at Lanhydrock, now mainly beech, as in the distance, but originally, in mid-17C, a sycamore avenue, with the tree to the left an important survivor. #Cornwall

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Hear Mike Parker-Pearson on 'The Stones of Stonehenge: Long-Distance Links with Preseli and Elsewhere' On Thursday 12th March at 7pm. Cornwall Archaeological Society. Online talk. Details here: cornisharchaeology.org.uk/events/joint...

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North from Carkees Tor yesterday. The medieval strips on Garrow illuminated, showing their lazy beds, and the two Cornish mountains, Rough Tor and Bronwenelyn (Brown Willy) looking good. #BodminMoor, #Cornwall

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Winds ripped this lichen from its place.

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Houseman's house, Linkinhorne, #Cornwall. South Phoenix.

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Stone upon stone, in a hedge and in a field. Bastreet, North Hill, #Cornwall

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A circle of thorns tangled by over-vigorous dancing high on Caradon, #Cornwall.

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Four Natives of Ancient Britain, Daffodils, Narcissi, Lily of the Valley and Bluebells, Alfred Balding, 1913.

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Kynance gate, a prehistoric settlement on the Lizard, #Cornwall. Hear from Charlie Johns about its investigation in the mid 20C. Thursday 13th February at 7pm. Cornwall Archaeological Society. All welcome. Details here: cornisharchaeology.org.uk/events/archa...

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Glynn Valley Clayworks from Hardhead, back in 2009.

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every day we see more and more evidence of society descending into utter lawlessness and chaos

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Cobwebby smiles from late 15C faces in the porch of Blisland church, #Cornwall

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Watch Hill cairn, St Austell, #Cornwall Tonight Henrietta Quinnell reviews her ground-breaking excavations more than 50 years ago of complex Bronze Age cairns in the Hensbarrow uplands. 7pm All welcome. Cornwall Archaeological Society, details here: cornisharchaeology.org.uk/events/corni...

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I've yet to meet a stone circle without a desire line towards it, without the grass outside and inside of it wearing rings carved by the revolutions of lithic pilgrims. The Long Neolithic as a refusal to stop manifesting a sense of sacred on the landscape. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSundday

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Well, it’s finally happened, one for the bucket list. This week I found a flint handaxe at Happisburgh while walking with friends. Their shared concern was due to my delighted dancing looking like I was having a funny turn!

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Bit of a favourite by a favourite 😍 … Tyne Bound by John Lines (b. 1938)

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Skimmel Bridge

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Night Safe. Hugh Town, St Mary's, #Scilly 2023

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Trying to make myself known to more of the people on this who once followed me on X. 😄 Reposts appreciated! #arealmofwonder #cianmccarthy

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#HillfortsWednesday The ramparts of Kenidjack Head coastal promontory fort in West Penwith

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Goodramgate & Monk Bar, York. 17-19th cent Little Italy at no 12. 6-10 Goodramgate 18th cent former Red Lion Inn, coaching inn. 4 Goodramgate late 19th cent, housing above a passageway access to properties behind. Monk Bar, one of the main medieval gates of York. Built 1300s, raised 15th cent.

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Yesterday morning as sea mist rolled back from Portholland and, distantly, from the mighty Dodman. #Cornwall

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Saving seaweed Par, #Cornwall

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Happy 130th anniversary @nationaltrust.bsky.social. Here's a moment to make Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley happy from #Gunwalloe #Lizard #Cornwall this bright and beautiful morning.

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The Bronze Age cairns of Brown Gelly, placed on a broad plateau so that those approaching from the south see Roughtor and Bronwenelyn (Brown Willy), the two great hills of Bodmin Moor, framed in the gap between cairns and also mimicked or represented in the profiles of the complex mounds.

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Ancient hedge heightened in the 19th century. Bosporthennis, #Cornwall (2 metre scale).

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Windhover over Widemouth, #Cornwall

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Spikes of frost on thorns of bramble this morning.

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Inis Men stone on Boswens platform cairn. Placed to view significant landscape. Pimple right of the stone is Chun Cromlech, then Chun Castle (with poss B Age predecessor) in silhouette. Away right of centre are the rocks of Carn Galva, Neolithic tor enclosure. Boskednan stone circle to its right.

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A word not used nearly enough about standing stones is 'conversation'. For it is clear that they are often in conversation with each other and always in conversation with both the land and us. The Long Neolithic is never not talking to the now. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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Bran replenished by a New Forest pond. Miss her.

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✨It rarely gets the centre of attention because of the lantern tower but the 12th Romanesque nave at Ely Cathedral is jaw-dropping - so I put my tilt-shift lens to use..📸

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The Grey once more. From above The Straythe. #Cornwall

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Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #Plymouth #Devon 📷 29.08.2024 (#elevensestime)

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The Grey again, with the Lizard peninsula beyond. From Carn Pednathan. #Cornwall

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Waves, and waves of rock. The Grey seen from West Portholland. #Cornwall

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One of the beehive huts in the yard at Slades, Bodmin Moor. #Cornwall

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Furze for the fire at Garrow. #Cornwall

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Victorian police station at St Cleer, from the churchyard. #Cornwall Caradon Hill on the skyline. 17 years ago.

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There they go, down Portholland. #Cornwall In 2016

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