Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Mar 25, 2010, 12:53
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ocifant wrote: Not sure this qualifies, but just saw this on Twitter from @thelondonstone :-
There once was a London Stone,
sat in a cage like throne,
signed up to Twitter,
complained about litter,
but never his followers did groan!
Pretty awful stuff! :-)
Oh, I dunno, made me laugh. Thanks :-)
Thanks also for the previous one Nigel - you weren't thinking 'metal detecting' were you ;-)
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nigelswift
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Edited Mar 25, 2010, 13:37
Re: Megalithic Poems
Mar 25, 2010, 13:20
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Mostly, but also the new Planning Policy stuff, just out, whereby the local authorities will be better able to give developers their way.
E.g....
to conserve England’s heritage assets in a manner appropriate to their
significance by ensuring that decisions are based on the nature, extent and level of that significance, investigated to a degree proportionate to the importance of the heritage asset
Clever eh? So instead of being forced to treat a place in accordance with the evidence of it's importance you can just say it's unimportant and thereby ensure it isn't investigated closely and that evidence of it's importance won't come to light.
Watch out Thornborough.
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Tim Cumming
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Re: Megalithic filmpoems
Mar 25, 2010, 14:21
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How about megalithic - ar at least prehistoric - filmpoems - these are mine posted onto YouTube - Danebury Ring was written and filmed at the amazing Hampshire Iron Age hill fort.
Antiquarian HEads may also be into this longer film, Radio Carbon - a 30-minute filmpoem that uses the metaphor of radiocarbon as a broadcast medium, and takes parallel explorations of prehistoric, personal and present time, set to a hypnotic and deep-tissue reverie inducing sound and image track -
Enjoy!
Tim C
Danebury Ring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGizJALaaG4&feature=channel
Radio Carbon (1 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1CWojCKric&feature=channel
Radio Carbon (2 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGkHzY8YDLg&feature=channel
Radio Carbon (3 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wciyJV1vJiI&feature=channel
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Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic filmpoems
Mar 26, 2010, 20:37
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Thanks Tim, very nice.
If you'd like us to feature your Danebury Ring poem on the Meg Poems blog here let me know - http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/
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nigelswift
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Happy fifth birthday Meg Poems thread.
Mar 27, 2010, 12:26
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That's one acorn that grew and grew!
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Tim Cumming
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Re: Megalithic filmpoems
Mar 27, 2010, 12:39
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Littlestone wrote:
Absolutely Littlestone, that would be great. I also have some poems from 19th c Dartmoor writer about Wistmans Wood, Dartmoor's druidic woodland which I could send to you....
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Littlestone
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Re: Happy fifth birthday Meg Poems thread.
Mar 27, 2010, 13:11
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nigelswift wrote: That's one acorn that grew and grew!
And all due to the many people who've written poems on the megalithic theme and/or have posted them here.
Thanks to all :-)
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goffik
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Re: Megalithic filmpoems
Mar 31, 2010, 14:28
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Really enjoyed the film - nice work, Tim!
G x
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Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic filmpoems
Mar 31, 2010, 16:28
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I also have some poems from 19th c Dartmoor writer about Wistmans Wood, Dartmoor's druidic woodland which I could send to you....
That sounds good - if they're megalithic in content feel free to post them (and transcripts of your filmpoems) here. Alternatively you could also post them as comments on the Megalithic Poems blog here - http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/
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Littlestone
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Edited Apr 19, 2010, 21:51
Re: The Old Serpentine Temple at Avebury - Rev C Lucas
Apr 19, 2010, 21:37
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Thus by the Dike, a single ring is rear’d
One hundred stones compos’d the pile completed
Two circles less inclosing, South and North;
But these with double rings, thirty the one,
The inward only twelve. Each stone agrees
In number, size and shape. The North Contains
A cove form’d of three stones triangular,
An antient altar this; – the south has one
To which they ty’d the victim; and another.
An Obelisk the highest of the group,
Which in the centre rears its spiring head…
Very Stukeley-esque (re: Moss' excellent feature here - http://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/avebury-focus-on-18th-century-vandalism/ )
But see also Wordsworth's debt to Mr S with his -
Ah me! what lovely tints are there!
Of olive-green and scarlet bright,
In spikes, in branches, and in stars,
Green, red, and pearly white.
This heap of earth o'ergrown with moss,
Which close beside the thorn you see,
So fresh in all its beauteous dyes,
Is like an infant's grave in size
As like as like can be:
But never, never any where,
An infant's grave was half so fair.
(From Wordworth's poem, The Thorn.)*
Compare this with Stukeley's findings at several sites, as recorded in Stonehenge, a Temple Restor’d to the British Druids -
""About three foot below the surface, a layer of flints... about a foot thick, rested on a layer of soft mould another foot: in which was inclos’ed an urn full of bones... “The bones had been burnt, and crouded all together in a little heap, not so much as a hat would contain”... “We made a cross-section ten foot each way, three foot broad over its center... “At length we found a squarish hole cut into the solid chalk, in the center of the tumulus. It was three foot and a half, i.e., two cubits long, and near two foot broad, i.e. one cubit: pointing to Stonehenge directly. It was a cubit and a half deep from the surface”... Regarding “one of the small ones, 20 cubits in diameter,”... “A child’s body (as it seems) had been burnt here, and cover’d up in that hole: but thro’ the length of time consum’d. From three foot deep, we found much wood ashes soft and black as ink..."
"...there is no evidence as to when Wordsworth first read Stukeley, or that Wordsworth himself subscribed to Stukeley’s fatuous theories, we know from poems like “Salisbury Plain” that he was fascinated by Druid lore, and in the 1805 version of The Prelude he even characterized himself, during his studies at Cambridge (Stukeley’s alma mater), as a youthful initiate into the Druid class of Bards...""**
* Complete poem at - http://theliterarylink.com/thorn.html
** Abstracts from From Relics to Remains: Wordsworth’s “The Thorn” and the Emergence of Secular History by Charles J. Rzepka.
More at - http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2003/v/n31/008696ar.html
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