goffik
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Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 03, 2010, 19:44
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Sweet shite - I thought I'd have managed this by now! My choices change by the day... I'm sure we've all been there during this process!
*cough*
I'm just bumping this thread, actually, so I don't lose it! :D
G x
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Mr Hamhead
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Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 03, 2010, 23:44
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your not the only one yet to post yet mate....and at least you have a excuse!
I must get me thiking hat on...I know what my fave is but not sure about the other two.
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Mr Hamhead
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Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 04, 2010, 00:00
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In no order...
The marvelous mushroom that is...Chun Quoit.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/233/chun_quoit_and_boswens_menhir.html
The finest kist on the moor..and still No 1 for biggest surprise, Buttern Hill
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/10341/buttern_hill.html
Small but perfect...Trewortha Cairn
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/11123/trewortha_cairn_and_cist.html
Mr H
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GLADMAN
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Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 04, 2010, 00:10
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Mr Hamhead wrote:
I know the other two, Mr H, but this one is noted for future reference. Nice.
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1speed
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Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 04, 2010, 00:39
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Not going to be terribly adventurous in my choices here I'm afraid, and with profound apologies to Sunkenkirk, White Moss and Castlerigg...
1. Cnoc Fillibhear Bheag
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/202/cnoc_fillibhear_bheag.html
Always feels such a special, peaceful place. Whenever I visit I never want to leave.
2. Na Dromannan
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/2965/na_dromannan.html
An intriguing site, I wonder just what stories the stones have to tell.
3. Callanish I
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/198/callanish.html
Preferably out of season, in that soft early morning / late afternoon Hebridean light.
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juamei
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Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 04, 2010, 09:08
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Get on with it! Sheesh its not that hard ;)
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Rupert Soskin
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Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 04, 2010, 19:56
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I've agonized about this for ages. It's even harder than picking your top three favourite albums!
1) Callanish - because of the sheer genius of the place, because the atmosphere is phenomenal even in the pissing rain and because my first visit there had a greater impact on me than any other site.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/198/callanish.html
2) Moel ty Uchaf - Love it love it love it! I can always imagine the people sitting there all those thousands of years ago, watching the sunset from exactly where I put my arse.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/140/moel_ty_uchaf.html
3) Assycombe - To me, one of the most mysterious and other-worldly sites in Britain. That avenue stretching down the hill as if disappearing into the underworld - magic.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/5285/assycombe_hill.html
I now reserve the right to be a pain in the arse and sneak in a few that didn't make it for no good reason. Uragh, Maeve's Cairn, Scorhill (totally agree with Mustard), Drizzlecombe, Grey Cairns of Camster, Yellowmead... ok I'm going
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sam
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Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 04, 2010, 20:37
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Machrie Moor - because it has everything you could need - trek to get to, nice walk, and an example of pretty much most types of circle.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/161/machrie_moor.html
Stenness - a site that I literally had to be dragged away from, just so beautiful, and it's neighbouring monuments aren't bad either.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/389/standing_stones_of_stenness.html
Drizzlecombe - other half is from Dartmoor, but had never heard of it. Just so much there to see, from when Dartmoor was civilised.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1371/drizzlecombe_megalithic_complex.html
Can I add an honourable mention for Scorhill (in the snow), Lligwy and in fact all the Anglesey monuments, Rousay sites (double-decker burial chamber, and the biggest chambered cairn you'll ever see). Generally. most sites on islands. And hunebedden.
God I wish I'd never bought this book, and found the website. Might have gone on normal holidays like normal people. To Ibiza, rather than a tent in Mull in the rain.
Sam
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postman
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Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 04, 2010, 21:00
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sam wrote:
God I wish I'd never bought this book, and found the website. Might have gone on normal holidays like normal people. To Ibiza, rather than a tent in Mull in the rain.
Sam
Nowt wrong with camping on Mull in the rain Sam, you couldnt pay me to go to Ibiza (unless theres stones which I dont think there is)
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sam
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Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 04, 2010, 21:14
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There is when you wake in the night to realise that your tent is flooding, everything you have is wet, and you've bust your alloys on the potholes and will end up being towed home on a breakdown truck, home being 10 hours away. Its times like that I dream of Ibiza. But memories of standing in Stenness in the freezing, foggy moonlight that I realise I will never go to Ibiza, and will continue to go on these stone hunts instead.
Sam
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