#a neolithic standing stone

[neil-gaiman]

First of all, thank you for being you and for making good art. I am a huge fan.

I loved the recent photos of the stars you shared on your page! Was that what you were able to see with the naked eye as well? Were the photos taken in a spot with very little light pollution to get that level of clarity, or did the camera enhance the stars?

It's more than the naked eye could see. But there's no light pollution where I am right now, so you can walk outside and look up at the milky way.

What I see is this:

What the camera sees in a four minute exposure is this:

Tonight it was cloudy, and I thought there wouldn't be much chance of getting anything, and I was surprised when I discovered that the clouds were moving enough that the camera, taking a 4 minute long exposure, was able to find the stars. Here's a tiny film of a few seconds of what the camera saw...

[thesilicontribesman]

Swinside Neolithic Stone Circle, Sunkenkirk, South Lakes.

[caedmonofwhitby]

Lucas de Heere (1534–1584)

English: One of the earliest near-accurate depictions of Stonehenge.

Date between 1573 and 1575

watercolor

British Library

[letmeinimafairy]

Making big stone portals now. Probably due to subconscious irrational hope it will teleport me the hell out of here (motherland wants me out of existence again)

[callumogden]

Standing stones at Machrie Moor on Arran

[yorksnapshots]

The Devil's Arrows, North Yorkshire, England.

Originally there were at least 4 stones with one being removed in the 16th Century in an unsuccessful attempt to find hidden treasure.

The tallest at 6.9 metres is the 2nd tallest standing stone in Britain and taller than any stone at Stonehenge.

[ancient-path-3]

"Newgrange a Neolithic tomb about 5,200BC years old, was built in 3,200BC.Located in county Meath in the Republic of Ireland 🇮🇪

It's older than the pyramids in Egypt by 600 years and older than Stonehenge by 1000 years."

[theemeraldforesthideout]

Equinox Ritual

[casside-sionnach]

[heatherdrawsthings]

Handaxes and standing stones are beautiful objects

[thesilicontribesman]

Oddendale Prehistoric Stone Circle, Oddendale, nr. Shap, Cumbria

[theemeraldforestafterdark]

The Rose and The Ritual At the unnamed standing stone

[letmeinimafairy]

What a surprise - more neolithic stuff. Making these things is very therapeutic, burning splinters and arranging shards into something. Picking broken stupid little things and building portals. Recreating the oldest motif in the history of paint.

I guess you can call my genre 'overly emotional about pebbles'

[lith-laugh-love]

1st Feb 2023

The entire trip around the Gump was made with the aim to see this stunner! After watching Enys Men at the Poly, there were too many jokes to be made about meeting a celebrity. The entire Hike meant I was the only one out there for the majority of the day. Cornovia has dissapointingly little to say on Boswens' Menhir, but it's name is from Cornish & is translated as 'the winds dwelling', which is very cool. It definitely lived up to that - the wind was certainly bracing.

megalithic.co.uk

[jason-1971]

[stfox]

standing stone in Troswick, Dunrossness, Shetland by AngusInShetland