juamei
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Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 08, 2010, 20:50
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GLADMAN wrote: Something's just struck me........ don't believe we've heard from Sunhoney yet? In my humble and not very expert opinion (having seen about 20 RSCs - a mere fraction) I cannot separate Cothiemuir and Sunhoney. Both exquisite rings...
It was in my top 10 :-)
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GLADMAN
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Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 08, 2010, 21:05
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One thing's for sure. There are some pretty special places out there. Reckon I'd seriously need a Top 100 to include only the sites which have blown me away.........
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faerygirl
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Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 08, 2010, 21:29
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GLADMAN wrote: faerygirl wrote:
Something's just struck me........ don't believe we've heard from Sunhoney yet? In my humble and not very expert opinion (having seen about 20 RSCs - a mere fraction) I cannot separate Cothiemuir and Sunhoney. Both exquisite rings...
You know, Sunhoney was the main reason I was heading to Aberdeenshire, but I was really quite disappointed when I got there. All overgrown and a little bit sad :(
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drewbhoy
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Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 08, 2010, 23:10
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faerygirl wrote: GLADMAN wrote: faerygirl wrote:
Something's just struck me........ don't believe we've heard from Sunhoney yet? In my humble and not very expert opinion (having seen about 20 RSCs - a mere fraction) I cannot separate Cothiemuir and Sunhoney. Both exquisite rings...
You know, Sunhoney was the main reason I was heading to Aberdeenshire, but I was really quite disappointed when I got there. All overgrown and a little bit sad :(
Have to agree, Sunhoney hasn't been well looked after for quite a time which is a shame. Still, it is a fantastic place!
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scubi63
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Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 14, 2010, 09:20
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TheStandingStone wrote: Let's try to keep this thread just votes...
1. 3 votes per person.
2. Sites can be any on TMA.
3. Provide link to avoid confusion.
I think that's what was basically decided...if I'm wrong please correct me on the other thread...this one is for votes...
Vote away...
Thought I would give this a bit of a bump!
Just did a quick count and I reakon we have about 60 different sites split between 24 voters so its pretty spread out at the moment. There are a couple of places that stand out but also a couple that I am surprised haven't been mentioned.
:o)
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nigelswift
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Edited Feb 15, 2010, 08:37
Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 15, 2010, 08:29
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Nine Ladies of Stanton Moor
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/85/nine_ladies_of_stanton_moor.html
Because it looks just right, a perfect combination of Art and Nature and reverence. And because loads and loads of people fought for many years to stop it being ruined – and totally won for once. So it’s a kind of totem for all the rest.
Mitchell’s Fold
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/139/mitchells_fold.html
Wide and wild, amazing views, all the things I love – curlews, buzzards, larks and Emperor moths – and my childhood birthday picnic spot of choice.
Silbury
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/30/silbury_hill.html
Because I’m obsessed with it for lots of reasons. I can sit and watch it for hours. You can see the wind. And because, unlike the other sites I think it’s mine. Doesn’t everyone? And it was the first to be thought of as everyone’s thanks to Sir John Lubbock – and lately his grandson. So it’s another totem. Plus, it’s enough to make you fall off your bike.
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Littlestone
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Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 15, 2010, 10:23
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Silbury
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/30/silbury_hill.html
Because I’m obsessed with it for lots of reasons. I can sit and watch it for hours. You can see the wind. And because, unlike the other sites I think it’s mine. Doesn’t everyone? And it was the first to be thought of as everyone’s thanks to Sir John Lubbock – and lately his grandson. So it’s another totem. Plus, it’s enough to make you fall off your bike.
Well said!
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nigelswift
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Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 15, 2010, 11:19
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Well spotted. ;)
BTW, when I said it was a totem I wasn't meaning to promote the idea of it having a totem pole in it, something that has flashed round the internet based on a bit of a journalistic flourish probably. A buried totem pole is just a bit too daft to count as a reasonable speculation I reckon.
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Vybik Jon
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Edited Mar 26, 2010, 14:17
Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 15, 2010, 11:50
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1. Callanish
http://graveyardshiftshane.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/julian-cope-jehovahkill.jpg
2. Figsbury Ring, Wiltshire
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/38/figsbury_ring.html
3. Clach Mhic Mhios, Glen Loth
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/2872/clach_mhic_mhios_glen_loth.html
All my choices are informed by what I was doing there and who I was there with.
Isn't TMA great?
Thanks, Julian.
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StoneGloves
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Re: To celebrate 10 years...cast your votes...
Feb 15, 2010, 12:34
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Somewhere I recall a theory, or a record, that there was a very tall stone at the centre of (was-it?) the southern circle. More a maypole than a totem pole, perhaps. Be careful with that bicycle.
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