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"It’s an ancient kinship, this connection I feel to rocks and stones. They stand witness to repeated human passage, waypoints in the landscape, marked across millennia."
New post on my blog 😁
#PlaceWriting #LandscapeHistory #StandingStones #StoneCircles #AncientSites #NomadicHearts #photography #creativenonfiction
OnlineFirst - "The wood storks of Lake Somerset: Multispecies landscapes of the Holocene/Anthropocene boundary event" by Zachary Caple:
#planetarytransition #colonialcapitalistinvasions #nicheconstruction #multispeciesethnography #landscapehistory #Florida
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251350860
I love looking down into this valley and knowing the layers of history both under and on the surface of the landscape:
On the distant, barely-visible hilltops opposite are Iron Age fortifications, which may very well have seen continuous usage through and after the Roman period, since we're well north of Hadrian's Wall.
The same ridge was where the Scottish army camped before the Battle of Flodden was fought in September 1513, on a moor just over the horizon.
The sloping hill in front is the medieval glebe land, belonging to the living of the church (St Michael and All Angels, just hidden behind the yew tree on the left), with the remains of the (probably) 16th Century Parson's Tower, and earthworks associated with the medieval castle and village.
Where the yew tree is now planted was the site of the old parsonage, likely built as a more comfortable replacement to the Parson's Tower after the end of border warfare in the 17th Century. Demolished in the mid 19th century, the parsonage was said to be a beautiful, atmospheric building, complete with several ghosts.
The castle tower visible here are 19th century; it underwent major rebuilding in the 18th and 19th centuries, but there are medieval foundations to several of the other towers.
I love taking people around this landscape and telling the hidden stories.
Community greens (Ecology 🏞️)
Community Greens, sometimes referred to as backyard commons, urban commons, or pocket neighborhoods, are shared open green spaces on the inside of city blocks, created either when residents merge backyard space or reclaim underutilized urban land such as vacant lots and alleyways. These shared spaces are communally used and managed only by ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_greens
#CommunityGreens #Parks #Ecology #Landscape #CommonLand #LandscapeHistory
I love hollow ways
Worn-down tracks going somewhere
Peopled with travellers
#haiku #HollowWays #landscapeHistory #landscapeArchaeology #DeepTime #Travellers
Late afternoon dog walk. I love this view, looking across north Northumberland to the Borders and the three peaks of the Eildon.
On those distant slopes, Thomas the Rhymer met the fairy queen (or 'queen of an unco' land' as she was in the oldest version we have) and went with her into the hills.
There, many years later, Canobie Dick tried and failed to wake the sleeping King Arthur in a torchlit chamber under the same hills.
A landmark visible from virtually every raised point in the whole region and easily identifiable, no wonder it was used as the site of a Bronze and later Iron Age settlement, then the Roman fort of Trimontium, and went down in legend as a place of magic and mystery.
#Northumberland #ScottishBorders #Folklore #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #EildonHills #History #LandscapeHistory @folklore
Blue skies and Autumn temperatures suddenly arrived.
Large skein of geese flying overhead, arriving with the colder weather. Folklore says they bring the snow to the hills, and we did have frost overnight.
Traces of history hidden in these photos: where I stood at the top of the hill, above the river, used to be a farm called Henlaw, the name probably referring to "waterhens" aka moorhens. The farm is just a few bumps in the ground and the name is long forgotten and appears on no modern maps, but down below you can still see the marks of the plough on what is now pasture prone to flooding and waterlogging.
Down below is Sandyford Farm, marking an old ford across the river, and the point at which the Pallinsburn runs into the river - the burn said in legend to be named after Paulinus, the missionary bishop who baptised King Edwin of Northumbria not far away from here.
Across the river, in unmarked crop fields, is suspected from a wealth of metal finds to be some sort of early medieval site - unconfirmed, but the archaeologists do keep coming back. A medieval road ran there too, down to a bridge said to be where troops crossed for the battle of Flodden a few miles away.
#Northumberland #landscape #history #histodons #medieval #RuralHistory #LandscapeHistory #folklore #DogsOfMastodon #Autumn #October
I got a free copy of Britain's Landmarks and Legends: The Fascinating Stories Embedded in Our Landscape by Jo Woolf, (National Trust Books)
to review on the #NetGalley platform, in return for an honest review. Here is what I thought of it:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/adc83b61-ed05-4ac0-8122-df248c2ff39c
#review #books #bookstodon #NetGalley #JoWoolf #BritainsLandmarksAndLegends #Britain #UK #LandscapeHistory
On my way to the BES #Trees4CBP symposium in Canterbury to present ‘Revealing cultural histories of Scottish woodlands: for restoration and engaging communities’ and to listen to the great range of speakers.
Good to see a few other speakers from Scotland in the programme.
#thicktrunktuesday
#dendrochronology
#Mull
#Scotland
#landscapehistory
#landscapearchaeology
#ReforestingScotland
Native tribes living in the NE US burned forest underbrush to open up the space while keeping the tree cover. I ran across this controlled burn that I think represents how this worked.
The goal was to create an open game park-like space in which people lived alongside the animals they hunted and the crops they grew. This approach was different from how English settlers lived in nature, hence a key aspect of the culture clash.
#NativeAmerican @histodons @histodon #landscapehistory #nature
While adventuring in nature (best done with @mrcourtney), I love the moments when we run into something man made. It’s a good reminder that every landscape has been touched by man. (Even Native tribes altered the landscape.)
This is a partially quarried stone, with the tool used to split the stone still in place.
@histodons @archaeodons #ruins #stone #landscape #landscapehistory
Just preordered me the #Hellebore #zine upcoming Old Ways issue. Looks great. https://helleborezine.bigcartel.com/product/the-old-ways-issue #Folklore #Myth #History #Archaeology #psychogeography #Occult #Landscape #LandscapeHistory #BritishFolklore #Countryside #Zines #FolkHorror
Mystery over jigsaw puzzle piece-shaped earthworks near Jedburgh - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-64581016 #Scotland #ScottishBorders #Jedburgh #Landscape #History #LandscapeHistory #LandUse #Earthwork #Maps #LandscapeArchaeology #Archaeology
It seems fitting to start things off with this...#Introduction
I'm an architectural historian, but not one who is particularly interested in pretty buildings.
Instead, I follow vernacular trends and less-examined details in the built environment.
With a PhD in architectural history, patterns from the past come alive for me. Most posts will be about something quirky that I saw.
Eg, this house built of mastodon bones. So cool!
#architecture #history #architecturalhistory #landscapehistory
My script for #AncientWoodland (emphasis on Welsh cases) based on local surveys 2014 to 2019. One of my conclusions was that landscape often classed as Welsh Ancient Woodland was often post-industrial woodland or land severely damaged by coal mining even though the coal mining or iron activities may have ended in the seventeenth century or earlier enabling the current recovered woodland to present as Ancient. #HistoricalGeography #IndustrialArchaeology #LandscapeHistory #PostIndustrialWoodland
Something for #HillfortsWednesday.
We're littered with #IronAge #hillforts in the northern Cheviots.
This is an 1769 map of #Northumberland showing the belief of the time about these structures. I'm fascinated by the #stories we've told about the landscape over the centuries, trying to make sense of what was under our feet and on our horizons.
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Likely the most important Notable Tree in the City and County of Swansea. I have added it to the #WoodlandTrust #AncientTreeInventory.The biggest Monterey of about twenty that survive from planting in 1970.One of the pioneer trees planted on the toxic slag tips as part of cleanup and regeneration of the area in the 1960s.An important survivor of the incredible efforts made by the Council and University College Swansea as part of the Lower Swansea Valley Project. #KilveyHistory #LandscapeHistory
@Nyddfwch I too love that book. Here are two related images that I have used to help first-year students imagine life during a time in which, if you wanted something done, you had to do it yourself (ie, no machines). Food = fuel.
You will know (but for the benefit of others), these men are all raising water from their flooded mines.
PS Pls post info about your tree work. Thank you.
#HistoricalGeography #ArchivalResearch #Energy #EnergySlave #LandscapeHistory #EnvHist
Something for #HillfortsWednesday. We're littered with #hillforts in the northern Cheviots. This is the same 1769 map of #Northumberland that I posted before, showing the belief of the time about these structures. I'm fascinated by the #stories we've told about the landscape over the centuries, trying to make sense of what was under our feet and on our horizons.
It was a frosty but sunny one this morning, mist lifting out of the river valley and lingering around the hills.
Shadows of the past are hidden in the landscape, invisible unless you know. Old plough lines lie under the flood water, and where I stood was a farm in the 18th and 19th centuries, now vanished. And the sharp tips of the hills are the ancient walls of #IronAge #HillForts
#Northumberland #landscape #photography #walking #November #LocalHistory #LandscapeHistory #RuralHistory
For contrast, here's the viewshed of St James's Church, Louth, Lincolnshire (the tallest medieval parish spire in Britain)... By and large, you can see one or the other, but only very rarely both! #Lincolnshire #Louth #LandscapeHistory
The area that the top of Lincoln Cathedral's spire (destroyed in 1548) would have been visible from when it was the tallest man-made structure in the world, according to a modified version of Google Earth's viewshed tool...! #Lincoln #LandscapeHistory