How much do we know about Stonehenge? Less than we think. And what has Stonehenge got to do with the Ice Age? More than we might think. This blog is mostly devoted to the problems of where the Stonehenge bluestones came from, and how they got from their source areas to the monument. Now and then I will muse on related Stonehenge topics which have an Ice Age dimension...
THE BOOK
Some of the ideas discussed in this blog are published in my new book called "The Stonehenge Bluestones" -- available by post and through good bookshops everywhere. Bad bookshops might not have it....
To order, click HERE
Some of the ideas discussed in this blog are published in my new book called "The Stonehenge Bluestones" -- available by post and through good bookshops everywhere. Bad bookshops might not have it....
To order, click HERE
Wednesday, 6 January 2016
The joys of dereliction
I've been enjoying my time browsing through an amazing collection of photos taken by Paul White -- who has made it a life's work to document derelict buildings in Wales -- and in Ceredigion in particular. You can look at his galleries here:
http://www.welshruins.co.uk/gallery.html
They are all in there -- chapels and churches, farmhouses, woollen mills, slate mines, grand country houses, schools, cottages, and even garages and sheds. This is clearly where the inspiration for the BBC crime drama "Hinterland" came from......
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Curious to see my great grandfather's grave as one of the "Welsh Ruins". I wonder what he might have thought.
Where was he buried, Chris?
In the chapel at Blaenycoed.
He was buried next to his brother Howell Elvet Lewis. Elfed is in the "beddau'r beard" section of the linked photos - poets. In Welsh wales he is still a well known name, Elfed that is, but not outside Wales.
Actually Elfed was not buried in Blaenycoed but his ashes were scattered there because this is where he grew up, and then they put up a monument - I know you appreciate factual accuracy :)).
All a bit off topic so sorry for that.
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