Just a mile down the road from Lanyon Quoit is this little structure looking for all the world like a neolithic mini-me burial just by the roadside. However, it is a modern sculpture – but I have no idea when it was erected nor by whom. Any ideas anyone?
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A little context from the ‘Standing with Stones’ DVD
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A little context from the ‘Standing with Stones’ DVD
FROM LOST IN FRANCE
Humans have occupied Armorica since the Palaeolithic era. Living originally as hunter gatherers, the population became settled in the Neolithic period (around 4500 BC), gradually mastering the techniques of raising livestock, cultivating crops and building.
This was the civilisation that created the tradition of standing stones. Most of the megaliths (dolmens, tumulus, and [...]
FROM THE DAILY RECORD
A BUILDER was forced to design a luxury estate around a rock – because locals said fairies lived under it.
Work on the multi-million pound development ground to a halt when villagers complained that the fairies would be “upset”.
Marcus Salter, of Genesis Properties, estimates the colony of fairies believed to be under the [...]
FROM THE WESTMORELAND GAZETTE
ARCHAEOLOGISTS in the Duddon Valley have uncovered over 3,000 previously unrecorded historic sites after a four-year survey of the area.
The Duddon Valley Local History Group, in partnership with the Lake District National Park Authority, found ring-cairns that could date back to the Bronze Age.
Two of the most exciting finds uncovered in the [...]
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For Dr. Robert Mason, an archaeologist with the Royal Ontario Museum, it all began with a walk last summer. Mason conducts work at the Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi monastery, out in the Syrian Desert. Finds from the monastery, which is still in use today by monks, date [...]
Standing Stones in the northern desert of Saudi Arabia, Al-Rajajil is a barren plain with groups of standing stones of 4000 or 5000 years old. The tall thin stones, up to 3 meters high, have Thamudic inscriptions and are aligned to sunrise and sunset.
Called al-rajajil (”the men”) today, the pillars appear to the casual observer [...]
Rupert came across this website about ancient man-made structures in South Africa in his recent researches. If the dates quoted are to be believed, this is quite one of the most significant discoveries in the archaeological world. I have posted the contents of the page about this one particular site where carvings and astronomical alignments have been [...]
During the making of “Standing with Stones” Rupert and I found ourselves on July 5th 2006 standing on busy Cannon Street in the middle of the City of London. How come? Well, that question is answered in the clip below. Even so, it was pretty surreal to mind ourselves filming an ancient prehistoric monument inside [...]
Today, with all the best wishes I could muster, I put in the post a special copy of the DVD addressed to the office of the Sundance Film Festival, Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California.
Entry is one thing, acceptance is another, but Rupert and I do think we have created an exceptional film by any standards [...]
My name is Michael Bott (with the cap) and it has been my privilege to partner my pal Rupert Soskin (with the shades) in the making of an amazing and unique film, Standing with Stones.
I think I was about 10 years old when I first visited the Rollright Stones. I remember it was part of [...]
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