A #Neolithic & #BronzeAge thread for #MuseumsUnlocked by @profdanhicks starting in #Caithness at Camster #ChamberedCairn - showing the forecourt area & entrances to the chambers

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to the #landscape entanglements of the unique megalithic monuments of the Dwarfie Stane, Hoy, Orkney

…https://heritagelandscapecreativity.wordpress.com/2020/01/09/dark-enchanted-isle/

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the places of extraction & enchantment in the mountains, such as the Langdale Axescape, Lake District.

…https://heritagelandscapecreativity.wordpress.com/2014/12/09/langdale-axescape/

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...to enclosures, such as Mayburgh Henge, where people terraformed the river side for building materials, creating arenas emphasising the night sky...

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/mayburgh-henge/

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... or like Easter Aquhorthies, Aberdeenshire, recumbent stone circle may have been designed to frame the Moon every 19 years ...

See the great @forestryls educational resource:

https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/research/recumbent-stone-circles/

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... & then there is the archaeoacoustics of rockart, percussion rock on rock ringing, a rhythmic return to stone & place ...

…https://heritagelandscapecreativity.wordpress.com/tag/ballochmyle/

#MuseumsUnlocked 6/13 @scottishrockart

... the liminal nodes & centres of ceremonies & rituals, like the remarkable concentration of monuments & associated dwellings between the Loch of Harray & Loch of Stenness ...

Image Stones of Stenness Circle & Henge

https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/stones-of-stenness-circle-and-henge/ @HistEnvScot

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... to endure, to be revisited & reworked,

like the standing stone on Learable Hill #Caithness, next to a stone circle and stone rows, with a later cross added ...

https://canmore.org.uk/site/6698/learable-hill

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... & still some of us are drawn to these special places,

making different journeys, seeking multiple meanings ...

#MuseumsUnlocked 8/13 #Calanais #Callanish @CalanaisCentre

#WildPrehistory

... & at these vulnerable times, perhaps seeing the lichens upon the stones are more important as we seek new forms of community ...

https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/machrie-moor-standing-stones/

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#IsleofArran @VisitArran

... embrace them as creative spaces to play & explore ....

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... & so when we see Neolithic & Bronze Age monumental forms continuing to be created, I wonder what is it that still draws us back to these forms & arrangements, ....

…https://heritagelandscapecreativity.wordpress.com/2018/02/11/past-inspired-sculpture-8/

Image Menhirs for Peace by Galician Sculptor Manolo Paz.

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& one reason perhaps, is that they have never passed, are not of the past, they are always of the now & always

Monuments to the Future

…https://heritagelandscapecreativity.wordpress.com/tag/crawick-multiverse/

@CMVerse @Future_Heritage

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