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The guide post at Wheely Down which may have inspired the eponymous Richard Thompson song...

And the kestrel turns in the empty sky
On high over Wheely Down

Richard Thompson, 'Wheely Down' (1972)

More here: 'To rouse the spirit of the earth': Fairport Convention and liminal topographies of the Winchester Downs.
Northern Earth, Issue 182 (Winter 2025) https://northernearth.co.uk/product/northern-earth-subscription/

The juxtaposition of book and balls was done in January 2018... Only today have I realised what might have inspired this - Emblem 141 (Eternitas) from Henry Peacham's Minerva Britanna (1612), featuring a very Melusinian-looking form holding two orbs, and she has 17 stars on her!
Troll-faced flint looking slightly indignant on a Bronze Age round barrow
Lived here for 30 years but only noticed this stone on the flower bed yesterday. Signs of repeated working? A lithic core?
#flintknapping #lithics #Palaeolithic #Neolithic #Mesolithic #workedstone #workedflint #archaeology
A piece of sarsen debitage found at Stonehenge, 51 km away, came from a group of boulders at Bramdean, arranged in their current position by a Colonel Greenwood in the 19th century. Nevertheless the spot does seem to fall on some interesting alignments, including the one presented here. It takes in Hinton Ampner church, a crossroads on Gander Down, the length of the southern cloister that surrounds the Fromond Chantry at Winchester College, and St Michael's church nearby #sarsens #Stonehenge
What connects two flint spheres, deposited at a hexagonal Roman temple dedicated to a water deity, with two flint spheres in juxtaposition with a book on André Breton's Arcane 17, his invocation of the legendary water nymph, Melusine? Two ‘positional acts’, vastly separated in time, yet in some way mutually implicated. Read more here: https://thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/melusinian-ripples-in-meonstoke-flint-spheres-fossils-and-moments-of-reciprocal-receptivity/

Nut is supported by Shu the god of air, and the ram-headed Heh deities, while Geb reclines beneath. Book of the Dead of Nesitanebtashru. British Museum.

The Merry Maidens stone circle the day after visiting the 'Between Worlds' Ithell Colquhoun exhibition at Tate St Ives. A breast-like formation of clouds appears suspended over the circle

#Cornwall #IthellColquhoun #Archaeology #StandingStoneSunday

Running deer in Rownest Wood, 10th February, 2012.

Brought to a standstill as 20-30 fallow deer swiftly crossed the road in front of me...

Seconds later, only three dark shapes can be discerned running through the woodland, to the left of the pair of trees in the foreground. The piano on the radio - possibly César Franck's Violin Sonata in A - seems to trace the urgent, fleet-footed rhythm of their departure, as the violin weaves in and out in flight.

#MicheldeverForest #Deer #CésarFranck

Ithell Colquhoun 1906 - 1988
Dance of the Nine Maidens
1940 © Tate.
An allusion to legends of standing stones and stone circles, such as the Nine Maidens, as petrified dancers:
'the besieged bedreamt him stil and solely of those lililiths undeveiled which had undone him' (James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, p. 75)
#StandingStoneSunday #Megaliths #Choreography #Gesture #Dance