by Geoff | Nov 16, 2022 | Art, Bristol, Street art, UK
Accredited with origins in New York in the late 1960s, attempts have repeatedly been made to define Street Art. It is without doubt a phenomenon in the 21st century, with public spaces around the world being celebrated and decorated in visually...
by Geoff | Nov 15, 2022 | Somerset, UK
The beach adjacent to the building site of Hinkley C nuclear power station is reached by following a non-signposted one way road until it leads to a muddy track, and then by driving along the track until parking beside an articulated bouy at the track’...
by Geoff | Nov 15, 2022 | Bluestones, Phenomenology, Preseli Hills, Quarries, Stone, Stonehenge, UK
Great Stone Project 2022 The Preseli Hills, in South West Wales, uniquely contain outcrops of a particular type of rock which has played a central role in a long time mystery at Stonehenge. A team of eminent archaeologists led by Professor Mike...
by Geoff | Sep 16, 2022 | Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, Great Stone Project 2022, Leskernick, Phenomenology, Quarries, Stone, Stone Circles, UK
Great Stone Project 2022 : Phenomenological Study of Leskernick Hill, Bodmin, 1995 -1999 The small hill of Lesternick is a relatively well preserved site of considerable Bronze Age occupation and remains. It’s claim to fame...
by Geoff | Sep 10, 2022 | Antiquities, Churches, Dartmoor, Great Stone Project 2022, Phenomenology, Quarries, Stone, Stone Circles
Great Stone Project 2022 : Dartmoor is a formidable lump of granite in the county of Devon. The seam of granite runs down from Devon and into Cornwall and becomes exposed firstly on the crags of Bodmin Moor and then later down on the...
by Geoff | Sep 6, 2022 | Great Stone Project 2022, Isle of Lewis, Phenomenology, Scotland, Stone, Stone Circles, UK, Western Isles
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by Geoff | Sep 5, 2022 | Great Stone Project 2022, Isle of Lewis, Phenomenology, Scotland, Stone, Stone Circles, UK
Great Stone Project 2022 : I again use the archaeological term ‘Material Culture’ to denote the landscape as I saw it on the Isle of Lewis, with a particular emphasis on documenting the structural elements of that landscape...
by Geoff | Aug 30, 2022 | Great Stone Project 2022, North Uist, Phenomenology, Scotland
Great Stone Project 2022 : The meaning of the archaeological term ‘Material culture’ refers to the consideration of the relationship between people and their environment, the making, history, preservation, and interpretation...
by Geoff | Aug 30, 2022 | Great Stone Project 2022, Phenomenology, Scotland, South Uist, Stone, Stone Circles, UK, Western Isles
Great Stone Project 2022 : Colour Amidst the Monochrome Photographs of rocks off Berneray beach, Western Isles, taken on the evening of 19th June 2022 Share...
by Geoff | Aug 30, 2022 | Great Stone Project 2022, Phenomenology, Scotland, South Uist, Stone, Stone Circles, UK
Great Stone Project 2022 : The phrase ‘Tir a’Mhurain’ is a romantic and political reference to landscape. It is taken from an emigrant’s song in praise of the island of South Uist and has several Gaelic meanings: ‘the land of bent grass’...