holes. a language shared and appropriated from the natural to the manufactured. ancient memories recalled. #stoneholes, #menantol, #men-an-tol, #holesinstone, #sunshadow #ancientmonuments, #naturalmonuments, #landscapeobjects, #holedmegaliths, #monoliths, #megaliths, #zennorhhill, #trethevyquoit, #zennorquoit, #westkennettavenue, #rosewallhill, #stlythansburialchamber, #tregasealstonerow,

the giant’s stone, zennor. a logan or rocking stone situated in the seaward fields below zennor hill bearing the same name as a dolmen noted by antiquarian w borlasehere or close bye. the large sculptural solutions basin weathering, marking it out in this landscape of monuments. apart from the dolmen, now no longer visible, there is a stone row more familiar in dartmoor and several standing stones in the vacinity. nb three men riding the stone to make it rock. early 20th c. . . . #giantsstone, #dolmen, #solutionsbasin, #loganstone, #rockingstone, #ancientmonument, #prehistory, #ancientcornwall, #ancientlandscape, #westpenwith, #oldphotograph, #rockingthestone,

trees and stones. these ancient forests sit on a bedrock of granite bolders. these uprooted trees may well be the inspiration for the upturned trees found in early monuments… #worldturnedupsidedown, #treemonument, #treesandstones, #ancientforest, #ancientmonuments, #ancienthistory, #prehistoric, #ancientwisdom, #westpenwith, #ancientcornwall, #stonestories #timbermonument, #treemagic,

piano lessons. work in progress. something majical about a piano interior . #mechanical, #majic, #serial, #fibinacci, #wip, #soundmechanism, #soundart, #workinprogress, #artmechanism, #tunein, #makemusic, #musicmachine

trencrom tor enclosure. solutions basins are a extensive feature of this neolithic tor enclosure and was inhabited right up until the end of the iron age. tor stacks are deliberately included in the architecture of these enclosures and particularly those that have solutions basins. this is repeated in other tor enclosures in west penwith. . . . #trencrom, #torenclosure, #neolithic, #ironage, #solutionsbasin, #ancientstones, #megaliths, #megalithicstructures, #prehistory, #westpenwith, #ancientcornwall,

solution basins/ cup-marks. rosewall hill west tors. this site a possible candidate for a neolithic tor enclosure known in the west of cornwall holds many weathered stone displaying solution basins. this multi-basined stone sits astride two tor stones creating a small covered area. possible logan stone. it’s top surface features many smallish depressions or basins some possible hand made using hammer stones. it’s not unknown for solution basins to be emulated on the same site by this method. unclassified but a good candidate. . . . #solutionsbasins, #cupmarks, #neolithic, #prehistory, #ancientstones, #ancientwisdom, #westpenwith, #ancientcornwall, #rosewallhill, #tor, #tors, #torstone, #loganstones,

the milky way -ways of seeing. following a tweet from carolyn kennett – l’m reposting this. ‘https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/marxist-astronomy-the-milky-way-according-to-anton-pannekoek. ‘It was their quality as aesthetic objects that first captured my interest in Pannekoek’s sketches, and I’d guess that this is also what has helped these sketches to endure. The aesthetic realm, for Pannekoek, was a manifestation of the way in which the human mind is able to build order out of the disorder of the cosmos. As Johan Hartle writes: “This idea of a profound isomorphism between cosmic order, nature, human society, and even the individual subject. . . held the promise of a society based on a self-regulating system of material forces”. The Milky Way images, then, are not images of the sky so much as cosmic mirrors for the human subject, revealing the interplay between the individual and the collective, between thought and matter, and the deep correspondence between art, science, and politics. ‘ Lauren Colleeis a writer and doctoral researcher looking at the Dark Sky movement at Goldsmiths, University of London. #marxistastronomy, #marxism, #astronomyphotography, #astronomydrawing, #dialecticalthinking, #dialecticalmaterialism, #dialecticalmethod, #ipannekoek, @laurencolleeis, @carolynkennett

more solutions. rock basins on carnstabba hill. this extra large rock with its solutions basin overlooks the bussow reservoir and the stennack river valley towards rosewall hill and trevalgan. although difficult to date they are evidenced on neolithic monuments. they are the result of continuous agitation of mildly acidic rail water that breaks down the granite structure to form these consistent circular or oval depressions that can be up to a metre in diameter and half a metre deep. it is easy to see given their remarkably consistent appearance that they might be valued by people in prehistory as the work of their ancestors. . . . #prehistory, #ancestors, #solutionsbasin, #rockbasin, #ancientknowledge, #ancientcosmology, #carnstabba, #rosewallhill, #trevalgan, #westpenwith, #ancientmonuments, #megaliths, #ancientcornwall,

solutions basin. rosewall hill. this large (and very deep) basin sits on a massive granite outcrop on the western edge of rosewall hills from is intervisble with the neolithic barrow on tendrine hill seen on the horizon. these are thought to have been highly significant to our ancient ancestors throughout prehistory and played an important role in their cosmology. . . . #ancestors, #neolithic, #prehistory, #solutionsbasin, #rockbasin, #rosewallhill, #ancienthistory, #ancientcosmology, #westpenwith, #cornwall, #walkingcornwall, #fieldwalking,

the polisher stone.

THE POLISHER STONE fyfield downs, east-north-east of avebury stone circles. a recumbent standing stone exhibiting the dishes and grooves formed in shaping and polishing stone axes during the neolithic. these standing stones were imbued with special significance as a result

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the polisher stone.

THE POLISHER STONE fyfield downs, east-north-east of avebury stone circles. a recumbent standing stone exhibiting the dishes and grooves formed in shaping and polishing stone axes during the neolithic. these standing stones were imbued with special significance as a result

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ground or weathered? this capstone-like boulder at carn brea’s neolithic tor enclosure is remarkable for its sculptural form. the site contains over 100 hut circles and many hundreds of flint arrowheads were discovered within its walls. . the site also revealed many cornish greenstone axe heads thought to originate from sources close by at the viaduct farm area of the polstrong valley near camborne. unlike knapped flint these greenstone axes were ground into shape, polished to form its cutting edge and distributed across many parts of britain. . could the multi-curved surfaces of this large stone be the result of its use as a massive grinding stone to shape and polish these axes…? . . #carnbrea, #neolithic, #torenclosure, #hutcircles, #cornishaxes, #greenstone, #axeheads, #secretecornwall, #penwith, #cornwalllandscapes, #prehistory, #axefactory,

KESTOR. dartmoor. this is an archetypal ‘solutions basin’ featured in ‘worth’s dartmoor’ (see drawing). evidence suggests these are developed over millennia and would have been integral to the prehistoric landscape of our ancestors. . . #ancestors, #prehistoric, #solutionsbasin, #entangled, #stonebotherin, #florianbeigel megaliths, #holedstones, #prehistoriclandscape, #geologicaltime, #deeptime,

men-an-tol-2. another ‘the stone of the hole’ this at carn brea neolithic tor enclosure . note the two ‘halves’ -the upright piece (as per madron men-an-tol) and it’s connecting piece lying horizontally above -the missing part of the ‘solutionsbasin’ hole visible on the right hand side. the hole seems to be two tiered. #carnbrea, #neolithictorenclosure, #solutionsbasin, #men-an-tol, #holedstone, #neolithic, #makingmonuments, #prehistory, #deeptime, #geology, #archaeology #geologyarchaeology, #standingstone, #stoneoftwohalves,

men-an-tol. the stone of the hole. zennor hill. not the men-an-tol of the madron stone circle but ‘a stone of the hole’ never-the-less. a double stack of tor stones situated just below the summit of zennor hill. a solutions basin has worn through the depth of one stone and begun working through the stone below. that these stone existed on the neolithic is borne out by its incorporation in the unique men-an-tol stone circle at madron. . . . #men-an-tol, #stonestack, #holedstone, #thestoneofthehole, #zennor, #zennorhill, #neolithic, #deeptime, #stonemonument, #prehistory, #westcornwall, #westpenwith, #solutionsbasins, #rockbasin, #tors, #torstacks,

bodowyr. anglesey. early neolithic. situated overlooking the menai straits looking towards snowdinia. the capstone with is its distinctive mountain like shape sits above four uprights but only three support it’s mass. not thought to be a burial monument but it’s purpose more ceremonial or memorial; marking a territory; a memory place perhaps recording early settlement. . . . #memoryplace, #earlyneolithic, #neolithic, #monument, #prehistory,

zennor hill towards sperris croft and quoit. the germans have a better word than the (romantic overtones of) english landscape – landshaft or land shape. important now as it undoubtedly was for our ancestors throughout prehistory. . . . #ancienttimes, #ancientlandscape, #landshaft, #theshapeofstones, #landshape, #ancientwisdom, #memoryspace, #orienteering, #songlines, #memorytrails, #tors, #carns, #stonestories, #neolithictransition #mesolithicneolithic,

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