Perfectly accurate
The top part of the broken and fallen ‘fat’ upright from the central Trilithon 3 — it lays across the Altar Stone. Much of the graffiti on the top has worn away. Can just make out:ƗANE FLEMƗNG 1747
I suspect the upper case letter I with the stroke through it would be the Latin form.
Long been fascinated by these carvings. I think this stone will be the Rosetta Stone of Stonehenge. Seen with other original markings on 59a and the back of 54. There’s definitely method in the carvers’ madness.
Poor crows, jackdaws, or rooks. Been living here for generations upon generations; going back over a thousand years. Now fenced off. Lintel 151, Trilithon One, inner face.
Evicted after 4,500 years.
TIL about Japanese Dogū ceramic figures. Roughly same age as the sarsens of #Stonehenge. And Jōmon flame pottery, about the same age as the beginning of Stonehenge.
Via an exhibition at the Stonehenge visitor centre comparing British and Japanese Neolithic.
Recently, tenacious Brian John, researched this bluestone found on a beach by Phil Holden, a photographer, in Mumbles, near Swansea, South Wales. It is just one of several that make up a breadcrumb trail of the ice floes from the west of Wales, North Wales, even Scotland. Which, probably, reached as far or even further than the nascent site of Stonehenge.
Here, S54, inner, the narrow gap face. Obviously, stick space men. Conclusive proof, built by aliens.
So much graffiti. Possibly, because some stones may be softer, easier to carve.
A museum in Germany is making a decent, life-sized, model of #Stonehenge Trilithon Two. Found via @Clonehenge. An opportunity for me to show off my models. In rust for detail and damp winter garb for colour.
Something, I’d like, on my walls. Pictures, inner and outer, of T1, T2 and T4 in full damp, winter colours. Or in bronze, rusted iron — to more clearly show the longitudinal tooling marks of the builders.
Often a case for pareidolia. The oval shape on the reverse of one of the uprights Stone 52 in Trilithon One is many things to many people.
Here are close ups without skins of colour, mould, lichen, most to get in the way.
