Wednesday, 18 October 2023

Entrance Interior Graffiti and Summon to Surface Wideford Cairn Orkney S...

Entrance Interior Graffiti and Summon to Surface Wideford Cairn Orkney Scotland

If only… If only I had time to edit the footage and stills into a great presentation? If only I could bend a little more like I used to be able to, so many if only questions were miracle managed away into workable answers?

“If only,” is where it is. This film is something from 2023 that I did manage to get to. The whole trip was full of virtual potholes in the road for me rather than being resplendent with entrances to another world. Where and when I could I let go of this current consciousness and found what was waiting underground.

Then I called back and left the home for bone in the stone womb and found the surface full of another world as the current climate rapturously unfurled, commination curled and all heath and hell burly hurled as past consciousness updated in a global reset and the seasons fell away to the power of heating warming homes where we enjoy a much more stable life within a much more enriched skin no scarce hunt, no sparse fishing trip will reach our larders, we are all empowered within our guarded borders.

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Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn Kirkwall, Orkney
https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/wideford-hill-chambered-cairn/

Megalithic Portal - Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn

https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=178

Wideford Barrow / Cairn Cemetery
https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/8428/wideford.html

Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn

https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/215/wideford_hill.html

Thursday, 11 August 2022

Near Firth of Forth None Suspension Stone Structure seemingly anchored by North Berwick Law neither for rail nor road just a happy wire happenstance

Pencraig Hill or Pencraig Brae is a Standing Stone that is a stunning marker still in a prominent place and so regarded by thousands of users of the A199 road that is named Pencraig Brae. The large well set stone stands beside just North of the road between East Linton and Haddington in East Lothian near Edinburgh Scotland. This stone fits into the remains of the historic landscape much of which is not easily visible, in contract this stone that might have acted as a marker for many in finding their ways across the landscape is still very prominent to travellers today even though the main road of the A1 the early established route for traffic from Edinburgh to London has now been sent away from East Linton on a modern bypass.

When taking the pictures seen here I stood so as to hide a modern power line post. In hiding the power line post behind the megalith I have created an image of the stone that reminds me, at least, of the iconic Forth Road bridges with their spectacular suspension cables. The cables are both shown and edited out in these pictures.

Pencraig Hill, or Pencraig Brae

3 metre tall standing stone in a field to the north of A199 named Pencraig Brae.

Three sided megalithic marker

Has a clear Ordnance Survey Benchmark that seems not to be recorded.

I have listed just a few of the sites where further information can be found about this remarkable stone that places such a prominent focus on this landscape. For those either looking in from the roadside, or following a path if there is one this site is full wonder at the way our ancestors looked at and made markers upon the land that they have left for us to ponder over and mull on other times and many change of uses. With a quick look at an Ordnance Survey map you can see the location of hilltop rings and of other stones that have been set in and upon the landscape still brining our attention to their conception and possibly sometimes their role in ceremonial celebration.

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2018 photos of me and my mum at Pencraig Brae Standing Stone

https://www.flickr.com/photos/phhsykes/albums/72157674956506368