31 May 2023

Barrows, some stone circles, and other stuff

A few recent trips.

In April, Flowerdown Barrows, a well preserved bronze-age  disc barrow (about 4000 year old)


Only a short walk away from the barrows, resourceful Littleton has converted a telephone box into a library (at least 70 years old based on the shape of the crown)


And a short jaunt over to Winchester where we perused the ruin of Wolvesey Castle (around 900 years old)


Next door in the Winchester Cathedral (parts of it are as old as Wolvesey) where we saw a GreenMan carved into a column


And this Antony Gormley sculpture (40 years old) in the crypt (around 900 years old) with the haunting groundwater infiltration


In May, we ventured to Scotland and visited Croft Moraig stone circle (4000 years old, evidence of timber posts from 5000 years ago)


We also stopped at the Scottish Crannog Centre nearby with a delightful mix of artefacts and reproductions and the most engaging staff you will be meet at a museum.  The image is a reproduction of a 2500 year old crannog.


Kinnell stone cirlce (maybe 3000 years old)


And we stopped at Hadrians Wall (about 2000 years old) on the way home.


Also ate in a bridge over the motorway


All photographs by my beloved and I except for the Crannog: https://lochtay.co.uk/things-to-do/attractions/scottish-crannog-centre/


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