Harryshill
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Re: Modern memorials as 'ancient monuments'
Oct 02, 2012, 17:29
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I'm out at the moment and it's not down loading at the
Temp hitch i exspect.
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tjj
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Re: Modern memorials as 'ancient monuments'
Oct 02, 2012, 21:20
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Hob, I met with some friends today, one of whom is a sculptor - we discussed this a conundrum. The internet hosting site for BRAC did in fact go under and it is well recorded that much valuable data was lost therefore the internet alone should not be relied on. I think that much is a given. With regard to an appropriate 'symbol' to date the carving we agreed that the only one was '2012' and it should be on the same stone as the carving but not on the face of the carving. It was suggested it should be on the side of the rock (perhaps even below earth level).
Best wishes
tjj
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Harryshill
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Re: Modern memorials as 'ancient monuments'
Oct 02, 2012, 21:49
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Or maintain the status quo.
Nothing else is required
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Harryshill
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Re: Modern memorials as 'ancient monuments'
Oct 04, 2012, 12:02
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Downloaded but unread as of yet.
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The Eternal
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Re: Modern memorials as 'ancient monuments'
Oct 07, 2012, 01:01
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Hob wrote: The Eternal wrote: moron-magnet
Snigger....
Nice one TE, I'm gonna remember that one :D
Aye, well, it's a bee in my bonnet, if I wore one. I call it the Face-ache effect.
All the best to you Hob,
TE.
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dean dean
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Re: Modern memorials as 'ancient monuments'
Dec 01, 2012, 13:30
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modern? ancient? fake? folly? real? genuine? a stone circle is a stone circle is a stone circle. a piece of art is a piece of art. it depends in what spirit it was created as to how it can be perceived. people build circles for the veneration of mother nature. i dont care when they're built because it's all about 'feeling' and truth. warmest regards. Dean
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Littlestone
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Re: Modern memorials as 'ancient monuments'
Dec 01, 2012, 14:14
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dean dean wrote: people build circles for the veneration of mother nature. i dont care when they're built because it's all about 'feeling' and truth.
What evidence do you have that circles were built ‘for the veneration of mother nature’?
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tjj
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Re: Modern memorials as 'ancient monuments'
Dec 01, 2012, 21:12
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dean dean wrote: modern? ancient? fake? folly? real? genuine? a stone circle is a stone circle is a stone circle. a piece of art is a piece of art. it depends in what spirit it was created as to how it can be perceived. people build circles for the veneration of mother nature. i dont care when they're built because it's all about 'feeling' and truth. warmest regards. Dean
Hello Dean Dean, thank you for your good spirited post - I'm tempted to say yes I agree a stone circle is a stone circle - whatever! Lots of examples apart from the one in Wantage (mentioned in my initial post). There is an impressive reconstructed stone circle at Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire; another recently constructed one in Dorset commissioned by the owner of Lush. Bladup (Paul Blades) built one in Lincoln but the council dismantled it - I'm sure there are loads more examples.
These cannot be categorised with prehistoric stone circles though can they? No stone circles appear to have been built in Northern Europe after 1,500BC and the oldest existing European stone circle dates back to 4,000BC* - it is their age, mystery and, more often than not, their setting that sets them apart. Modern 'works of art' can only mimic them.
* Cromelque Des Almedres in Portugal
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GLADMAN
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Re: Modern memorials as 'ancient monuments'
Dec 02, 2012, 00:21
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Littlestone wrote: dean dean wrote: people build circles for the veneration of mother nature. i dont care when they're built because it's all about 'feeling' and truth.
What evidence do you have that circles were built ‘for the veneration of mother nature’?
There's a modern stone circle erected beside my sister's old estate in Bridgend. Erected in veneration of Mother Nature? Er, try politics?
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dean dean
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Re: Modern memorials as 'ancient monuments'
Dec 02, 2012, 02:30
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Littlestone wrote: dean dean wrote: people build circles for the veneration of mother nature. i dont care when they're built because it's all about 'feeling' and truth.
What evidence do you have that circles were built ‘for the veneration of mother nature’?
hi littlestone. because i built one with that intention ; )
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