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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/

Cinderella; three hundred and forty-five variants of Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap o'Rushes, abstracted and tabulated, with a discussion of mediaeval analogues, and notes

by
Cox, Marian Roalfe, 1860-1916

Publication date
1893

Topics
Cinderella, Catskin, Cap o'Rushes

Publisher
London, The Folk-lore society

Collection
robarts; toronto; university_of_toronto

Contributor
Robarts - University of Toronto

Language
English
https://archive.org/details/cinderellathreeh00coxmuoft/page/20/mode/2up

Cinderella; three hundred and forty-five variants of Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap o'Rushes, abstracted and tabulated, with a discussion of mediaeval analogues, and notes : Cox, Marian Roalfe, 1860-1916 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Bibliographical index: p. [lxxiii]-lxxx. Books which ... contain no Cinderella variants: p. 529-535

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Buxtehude: Trio Sonatas Op.1 & 2

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Craddock Moor Stone Row near Liskeard in Cornwall, a row of smallish stones on the south-eastern edge of Bodmin Moor. Photograph taken from the south on 9 February 1996.

#CraddockMoor #BodminMoor #Cornwall #StoneRows #StandingStoneSunday

The surviving stones of the Callanish II Stone Circle. Dating to late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, the circle is located near the main Callanish Stones on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Callanish #Prehistory #Lewis
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!
“Coincidences are ‘God’s way of staying anonymous.’ They are a reassurance that there is a flow and it’s useful to note and appreciate them when they occur.”
– Richard Russell, Liberation Through Hearing
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