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Philolithia

@Philolithia

Prehistoric landscapes, skyscapes, cosmology, folklore, nature. Meirionnydd #StandingStones PhD researcher Bournemouth Uni. Cymraes dw i & like Other Places too

 Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
Joined May 2014
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Another covert portal guardian #dailymegalith
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Folded landscapes #Booleylicious #Archaeology
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BREAKING: They're scrubbing @banksy The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest.
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صخرة تشبه رأس الكوبرا .. موقعها جنوب المملكة .. قرب ثجر سويدان .
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Very excited to announce my book STONE LANDS which Robinson (Little, Brown) are publishing just before summer solstice 2025 ... thank you everyone who shared stories of megalith hunting with me, you really did inspire me to keep going with this!
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🧵SALT🧵 It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question: Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from? The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised. 1/14
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Our latest issue 10.1 is out now journal.equinoxpub.com/JSA Latest skyscape research articles (£) and #OpenAccess book & conference reviews. Image of shamanic rock art Cerro La Silla from Moyano et al.
Boulder engraved with wavy lines annotated as representing the moon, 29 circles and an anthropomorphic figure. From Moyano et al FIGURE 8. Block QT_04, Cerro La Silla.

ALT Boulder engraved with wavy lines annotated as representing the moon, 29 circles and an anthropomorphic figure. From Moyano et al FIGURE 8. Block QT_04, Cerro La Silla.

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Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing. The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos. 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfre…
A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power | Carole...

A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power | Carole...

The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite

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Hookland@HooklandGuide6 Nov 2024
Now, more than ever. Re-enchantment Is Resistance.
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Jim Leary@Jim_Leary6 Nov 2024
Calling upon the old gods and the old paths to protect us all.
The Roos Carr figurines

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A holloway in mist.

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Silbury Hill

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The Devil’s Arrows

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Danaverney flesh hook its a work in progress, but making it a second time is an even more enjoyably process with more time to focus on the small details. Fascinated by birds in the #BronzeAge icons which there are many, maybe its their ability to cross liminal spaces
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Hookland@HooklandGuide20 Oct 2024
The stones are engines of mystery, engines of folklore. The lithic tongues they speak in range from the technical – orthostat, dolmen, capstone – to the poetic – ghost-holder, time-spine, story-teller. – Dr. K. Brophy, 1982 #StandingStoneSunday
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Happy #TombTuesday 🎉 Extraordinary & different from every angle...🥰 The incredible coastal Coetan Arthur #Neolithic chambered tomb in Pembrokeshire, standing proudly among the rockscape of @NatTrustArch Penmaen Dewi/St David's Head 📷 My own, 2022
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Cambridge Archaeological Journal is flipping to #OpenAccess! All content published in the journal from January 2025 will be permanently and freely available to read, download and share around the world 🌎. Find out more at: cup.org/3zKyIIO @UCamArchaeology
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Stonehenge The Dagger Stone – July 1953
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For my first #StandingStoneSunday of spooky season, I present one of the most haunting archaeological monuments I’ve personally encountered: an anthropomorphic Menhir on display at the Laténium, Neuchâtel, Switzerland 📍 Treytel-A Sugiez in Bevaix NE, Switzerland ⏳ 4600-3700 BC
Photo of a large Menhir, or standing stone. A human face and rib cage is carved into the stone. Light shines from above, casting shadows that highlight the carved features. Text at the bottom reads “The Látenium Object No. 2022.28”.

ALT Photo of a large Menhir, or standing stone. A human face and rib cage is carved into the stone. Light shines from above, casting shadows that highlight the carved features. Text at the bottom reads “The Látenium Object No. 2022.28”.

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The menhir of Kerhouézel in Porspoder (Finistère) is 6.6m tall above ground and like some others in this region has been worked and smoothed over most of its surface. At an unknown time on an unknown day it went down to sea to bathe. #StandingStoneSunday.
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The Drift Stones (The Sisters), Penwith, Cornwall. #ancientstonebothering #StandingStoneSunday
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An excellent map for #HillfortsWednesday, explaining the many similarities (with regional differences) between the prehistoric coastal promontory forts of Pembrokeshire, SE Ireland, Cornwall, Brittany & Galicia 🤩
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Map produced from the perspective of Galicia but applicable to the world before the revolutionary changes brought by arrival of the railway. By sea: A Coruña to London: 5 days. By land: Coruña to Madrid; 20 days.
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Dawn, at this moment, Iona Abbey.
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Tom Griffiths@sgriffenu9 Oct 2024
Noswaith dda @yrawrgymraeg Golygfa hyfryd o Bermo bore ddoe or ty fama yn Llwyngwril, gaddo mwy am y penwythnos #yagym #Abermaw #aurorasboreales
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