Screenshot from The Guardian newspaper, 21st April 2026. Environment. Almost half of E.U's busiest flight routes are hard or impossible to book on trains - report. Stone Age system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktank.
Anyone shed any light on how to book cross-border rail tickets in the Neolithic?
#StoneAgeAnything
Sarsen, concrete, bluestone or just the surface lichen?
Colour photo showing a grey squirrel lying flat on top of a wooden garden fence, paws hanging down the side.
How's your morning going?
A photo of a road sign on a roadside grass verge reading "Road Ahead Fucked".
A screenshot from the Oxford Mail showing a photo of Heide Alexander, Swindon MP and government tramsport secretary, plus an inset photo showing a pothole in a road surface. The headline reads "UK Transport Minister's Mini broken by Oxfordshire pothole".
Update to an earlier post: my MP failing to read the signs...
book cover, it reads: Eleonora Paklons, Kristof Smeyers, Kurt Vanhoutte, Hannah Welslau (eds) PERFORMING MAGNETISM The theatrics of persuasion in the long nineteenth century the cover shows a man in a tuxedo staring straight at you, his skin is green and his eyes are yellow
Good morning all! For those who can't wait any longer: our book PERFORMING MAGNETISM is already available in open access, with huge thanks to @leuvenup.bsky.social
Read it here:
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I had to double check that I wasn't there at all.
Mine are the same - such unbelievers!. A hefty shove next time might do the trick.
The long barrow looked like it was in the middle of a lumber yard last time I was there.
A colour photo showing the view of the West Kennet Neolithic long barrow from the Ridgeway, a kilometre or two to the northeast. The barrow is visible in the centre of the photo, seemingly at the top of a slope. Beyond, the ground falls away before rising again in the distance. In the foreground, the ground also appears to be sloping down and away from teh camera. Everything is pretty much green - grass in the foreground, a crop on the slope below the barrow, and more arable and grass beyond.
A view of the West Kennet long barrow from - more or less - the east, looking up to it from lower ground close to the River Kennet. In the foreground is a wooden gate, with a road beyond. In the distance the ground gradually rises in stages in the direction of the barrow, which can just be seen left of centre on the horizon.
A closer view of the West Kennet long barrow from the east-ish, again looking up to it from low ground near the River. Again, the barrow appears to sit on top of the rising slope in the distance, towards the top of the photo. Much of the ground between the camera and the barrow is green - mostly grass - and the image is crossed from left to right at various intervals by hedgerows and rows of trees. People are, inevitably, standing on top of the barrow mound.
One more for #StandingStoneSunday - some views of the West Kennet long barrow from various distances.
That would be a tad inappropriate for Must Farm.
Colour photo taken through the passenger window of my car showing a road sign warning drivers that the road ahead is "fucked". This may not be an official sign.
Well... yes.
(A420 westbound, about a mile east of Swindon. The road really is, by the way).
No-one I spoke to had walked throught it, which obviously begs the question - what happened to those who did?
A colour photo from the top of a grass-covered slope, looking down to wards Silbury Hill, a large mound dating to the late Neolithic. In the foreground is a darker circle of darker grass representing a so-called 'fairy ring', while a semi-circle of darker grass centre-right represents the remains of another.
The approach to SIlbury is similarly booby-trapped. (2/2)
A colour photo taken looking actoss a green grass-covered field. In the immediate foregound is a so-called fairy ring - a circle of darker grass. In the distance are the standing stones of the West Kennet Avenue, two roughly parallel lines of upright sarsens heading northwards to Avebury.
Almost walked into this trap on Friday while strolling towards the West Kennet Avenue nr Avebury. Be careful out there... (1/2)
#StandingStoneSunday #FairyRingFriday
It's enough to make me want to write something about Stonehenge again, just to annoy him. I assume he's not at EH or HE anymore?
I'll have to think up a name for one.
A close-up colour photo of a quartered orange placed on top of the stone known as the obelisk at Avebury, Wiltshire. The Obelisk is one of the concrete erections put in place by Alexander Keiller in the 1930s. In the blurry background are more standing stones, mostly sarsen, and the very green henge bank.
At Avebury today - a quartered orange placed on top of The Obelisk. Perhaps the 4 segments represent the quadrants of the henge? Alternatively, given the fact that The Obelisk is one of Alexander Keiller's erections, maybe it's a Spring offering to some Marmalade deity?
Wheeler boxes over a round house?
Are you sure that bolt is heading down and not up?
But she wasn't stood up in concrete.
Absolutely - restoration and all that. But usually when the VIctorians are blamed, it's because people assumed the fiddling about happened a lot earlier. Admittedly it would have but for the owner.
No, VIctoria had been safely buried before the first concrete was poured.
People who are aware of this are perhaps unaware of the role played by Phillip Webb and Detmar Blow in the first concreting.
Oooooh - a card index!
Bound to be - they've even named one of their villages after it.
Calling @clonehenge.bsky.social
"Since I moved to the East Coast, met Candice and got married, this is more like home now. We’ve built our own Stonehenge in the garden."
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Allusions? On the weekend? (Even worse, I actually thought I was replying to Sue's post...).
By the way, this is the same academic historian who recently sold a coin hoard at auction.
Can we be sure how long they had been sitting up? Had the excavators just ... interrupted them?
