#neolithic monument

[lymphomalass]

"Treasure Your Traditions"

I feel a bit of a mix, in terms of where I come from, but I'm more than ok with that.

My mother sometimes made oliebollen for New Year, as she had them when she was growing up in Holland. They're nicer than the name suggests: literally translating as "oily balls". They're like crispy donuts, containing dried fruit and sprinkled with sugar, best eaten on the day they're cooked.

But we exchanged gifts on Christmas Day, like other British families, not on 5th December for Sinterklaas, the eve of St Nicholas Day, an important Dutch festival.

Yesterday I remembered how, each Christmas Eve, my parents used to pack for us my Dad's white thigh-high fishing socks (designed to use in waders). At the very bottom of each stocking my brother and I would each find a white tissue-wrapped 50p piece, and an apple and a tangerine or satsuma, and sometimes a sugar mouse. There'd always be a book, and then other little gifts, specific to each of our interests, all wrapped in white tissue paper. One of the nicest things about Christmas Day was comparing what we'd each received and telling Mum and Dad which are favourite items were. They'd always want to know.

The memories gave me warm feelings of being loved, and remembered joy at what might now sound like relatively simple pleasures.

This art is of a Neolithic monument on Ynys Môn (Anglesey). Where we come from might, for some of us, feel like a confusing question but our past is still worth celebrating, especially when we can find happy commonalities!

The art is available printed on all kind of things at: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/132951915

Thanks!

Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

[thesilicontribesman]

Balnuaran of Clava Prehistoric South West Chambered Cairn, nr. Inverness, Scotland

[ancientorigins]

Discover how LiDAR technology has unveiled pathways for the dead in prehistoric Ireland, reshaping our understanding of the ancient Baltinglass landscape.

[illustratus]

Stonehenge, 2 May 1816 by Francis Etheridge

[mapsontheweb]

Late neolithic-era monuments.

by natgeomaps

Something momentous was in the air in the south of Britain about 4,500 years ago during the dying days of the Neolithic era, the final chapter of the Stone Age. Whatever it was—­religious zeal, bravura, a sense of impending change—it cast a spell over the inhabitants and stirred them into a frenzy of monu­ment building. In an astonishingly brief span of time—perhaps as little as a century—people who lacked metal tools, horsepower, and the wheel erected many of Britain’s huge stone circles, colossal wooden palisades, and grand avenues of standing stones. In the process they robbed forests of their biggest trees and moved millions of tons of earth.

[technician-the]

some renders of my 3d model of Stonehenge.

[everydayesterday]

photos: The Winter Solstice at Newgrange in County Meath. (Ireland's Content Pool).  sourced from Irish Central.

The Winter Solstice is an astronomical phenomenon that marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year. In the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice occurs on December 21 or 22, when the sun shines directly over the tropic of Capricorn.  It is the basis for many religious holidays around the world.  

At sunrise on the solstice, direct sunlight can enter the Newgrange monument—a large 5,000-year-old (older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid of Giza) Neolithic tomb structure built north of Dublin—through a specially contrived small opening above the entrance to illuminate the entry chamber for a short period of 17 minutes.  The monument is believed to be a place of worship for a “Cult of the Dead.”

[liefst]

The Merry Maidens is a late neolithic stone circle located 3 km to the south of the village of St Buryan, in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The circle is thought to be complete. The local myth about the creation of the stones suggests that nineteen maidens were turned into stone as punishment for dancing on a Sunday. (source / photos)

[catominor]

malta and gozo neolithic sites save me... save me malta and gozo neolithic sites....

[temporalteardrop]

path: *is fenced off*

visitors:

[littlebigarts]

✨️pics are not mine✨️

Stonehenge is a neolithic monument made from sarsen stone (outer ring) and a bluestone (inside ring). Archaeologists believe that it was constructed from around 3000 BC to 2000 BC. It was produced by a culture that left no written records. That's why we don't really know, what was the function of it. Stonehenge may have been built as a symbol of "peace and unity" of Britain's Neolithic people.

🤍 place: Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England

🤍 time period: Neolith/Bronze Age

🤍 culture: Bell Beaker Culture/Wessex Culture

[ukdamo]

The Callanish Stones

Nikki Robson

July. Summer on the island

muffles in scarves.

Merino-socked, Berghaus-booted,

swap cocoon of car

for hilly slither. Pilgrim-trail

with sodden strangers,

step in time to the cadence of rain.

White-trainered Americans patter: there isn’t a bus,

Earl, I can’t believe there isn’t a bus.

Even taped seams leak. Cold as

Lewisian gneiss, circle

the circle of Neolithic ritual.

Reach out, for Callanish grants

what Stonehenge forbids:

it feels like wet stone.

On the downhill squelch,

the final syllable’s a sneeze.

I buy a fridge magnet.

[thesilicontribesman]

The Rudston Monolith, Rudston, East Yorkshire

[ancientorigins]

Rushing to Stonehenge to see the Winter Solstice sunrise, early risers might have got the wrong end of the stick, or, in fact, the wrong end of the day. Experts explain how the world-famous monument is designed to align with the setting of the Sun on the Winter Solstice, not its rise!

[illustratus]

Stonehenge by John Constable

[nature-played-a-trick-on-me]

If everything was possible and every study I did would lead me to a job that suited me and I could manage to do I would study history with my whole heart