#COCKTHORPE!!!!!

[offscreenblogs]

The talons and weapons are officially done. along with the bases.

For the talon feet, I started by basing the main skin with leviathan purple so that is matches the colour tone of my back leg feathers. in addition, i also used a mixture of ahkellion green and contrast medium on the upper feather parts of the feet. for the talon nails themselves, a bit of skeleton horde shaded over with Seraphim sepia.

as for the weapon, I started by basing the blade with iron hands steel which i then shaded with nuln oil. I then started working on the tzeench symbols by using a mixture of Talassar and kantor blue. afterwards, i highlighted the edge of the blade in Runefang steel. I then started working on the additionally features with retributer gold which i then coated over with Guilliman flesh (similar to how i did my Armor). Finally, for the energy, i used briar queen chill mixed with the tyran blue shade paint. before then adding an additional layer of the later paint on the flames for added effect.

Now we finally move on to the base. with the ruins of the space wolf dreadnought...well...i just coated with space wolf grey and thats it (because i refuse to give those in-denial furries my 100% >:) ) then for the main ground, I decided to go with Armageddon dust to give it a more desert like feel. wanting a slightly darker tone though, i decided to coat it in Aggeros dunes. the finishing touch was then drybrushing the edges with dawnstone. So with all of that done. this officially means that the model is finally done. I've probably missed out a few minor things photography wise (belt items, back sashes aswell as additional highlights to the model Armor) but hopefully, you should be able to see those results when i get really good shots of the model in full. hopefully within 2-3 days because i want to get this just right. for now though, i hope you've enjoyed this journey so far and hopefully, I'll see you lot when i show you the model in full. until then though enjoy! :)

[multiversemittens]

Priest: Repeat after me.

Marckus: After me.

Priest, turning to Kitten: Are you sure you want this one?

[infearbutstillhere]

Just realized something when I was rewatching bits of hunter the parenting.

When Kitten tells Markus that COCKthorpe has a church, he was probably insinuating that they could get married there.

The implied meaning just flew over Markus's head.

[piltover-sharpshooter]

Jinx: Bury her in Slutshole! Caitlyn: Jinx, Language! Jinx: Top hat! Slutshole street is in the Lanes, its a real place. Ekko: My grandad lives there. Jinx: There's also Stiffkey, Booty Road, Dick's Mount, Hooker road, and of course... Vi and Jinx: COCKTHORPE. Ekko: I have relatives in all these locations. Caitlyn: Uncouth, you lot. Ekko: No! Sex words funny. Vi: Sex words funny, TRUE!

[mimeo-tan]

...we will never get over the secwords funny compulsion. damnit. sorry that completely regular word u just said is also a sexword n we cannot help but cackle. because its so true... sexwords funny forevere

anyways we're gonna go take a drive down to COCKthorpe. hehehehajagagaayegirgitvu2rjudrybeehi

[shazzaofdoom]

I Watched The Whole H:TP Episode aaaAAAA Here Is My Thoughtdump

Under a cut again, because long and whatnot

First, a few brief things from the first half that I didn't mention before but I can't get over:

The jazz hands and the sound effects when Big D pulls Kitten up on calling him 'sir' are hilarious

Oh my god, it's a Vampire Hunter D joke isn't it, I just got that

Marckus F R E C K L E S... IMPORTANT

"Movie-film" will be immediately taking up residence in my vocabulary

The line about Cockthorpe having a church gets funnier every time you hear it: I have watched it several times now, so I know this for certain

'Ground fiddle'

Absolute pure delight at the Kräkus name-drop

OK, second half, the NEW SHIT:

First off, blessings on whoever thought to put the Kitten and Marckus backstory in the break, inquiring minds desperately needed to KNOW

Oh my godddd did they really just say childhood-friends-to-lovers, I'm having an emotion

"I really don't want to", "A curse upon your names": Boy punching above his weight being sassy is so good

I'll never be able to look at a picnic table again without laughing

Boy calling out to his dad and running over to Door when he gets away from the nasty vampire TT^TT

Baby carrier for an eleven-year-old omfg

"I am NOT FUNNY!" and yet I laughed SO hard, how do you explain that?

Goddamn, but I do love me a fight scene. That was brutal and nuts and tasty, and if that's a taste of what's to come I am PUMPED. YES LADS PUT SOME POINTY STICKS IN SOME BASTARDS

Kitten and Marckus defending each other, yes yes yes yes yes I will EAT THAT SHIT UP

The stake jacket noooooo bby I'm crying laughing, please listen to the others and get a gun, but I'm guessing you absolutely won't

Boy with the ice pack, HE'S SO GOOD

MIGHTY KEVIN... FEAR HIS WILL oh wait

I lost it so hard when his eyes did the thing

And I just really fuckin loved this shot so I capped it too:

[juliahoskins]

Orchids

Cockthorpe, Norfolk

June 2022

[transmechanicus]

Did you watch Alfa’s new thing? Do it or so help me I will throw you into COCKthorpe

Ye watched it day 1 :D

[hrodvitnon]

For the uninitiated and unaware, there are a few things in the UK with very wrong or innuendo-prone names. We’ve already covered Poundland and CEX. Now, we go onto town names. The most obvious one would probably be Cockthorpe, a hamlet in Norfolk. There’s also Cockfosters, which is host to a rather well-known train station called, you guessed it, Cockfosters Station. No, none of this is a joke. Yes, all of it is real. And we refuse to get the names changed. Because we also find it fucking funny.

I would be saddened if the names were changed, because we need places with names like Cockfosters.

[oddnamesinhistory]

Sir Cloudesley Shovell of Cockthorpe

(1650-1707), English naval officer

[aisphotostuff]

Morston Quay to Cockthorpe circular walk near Blakeney, Norfolk by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: the Norfolk Coast AONB. Many areas of the coast are wild bird reserves. Tow national trails, The Norfolk Coast Path and The Peddar's Way..explore two villages on the North Norfolk Coast. The route offers some views across the Morston Salt Marshes towards Blakeney Point and the opportunity to visit the parish churches in both Morston and Blakeney. In addition the abundant wildlife in the area will also add considerable interest to the walk. Refreshments are available in season in both villages

[mr-kiwi-the-wizard]

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cockthorpe,+Wells-next-the-Sea+NR23+1QS,+UK/@52.9395722,0.9256914,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x47d7719e6e013a1d:0x8f64c5da03d1c85c!8m2!3d52.939574!4d0.943201

[commissioningengineers]

Water Treatment in Cockthorpe #Water #Balancing #Systems # #Cockthorpe https://t.co/Zhwty4ZfWD

Water Treatment in Cockthorpe #Water #Balancing #Systems # #Cockthorpe https://t.co/Zhwty4ZfWD

— Commission Engineers (@hvacengineersuk) August 3, 2020

[childrenssafetyflooring]

Local Equipped Area of Play in Cockthorpe #LEAP #Surfaces ...

Local Equipped Area of Play in Cockthorpe #LEAP #Surfaces #Cockthorpe https://t.co/naFIhrZjOW

Local Equipped Area of Play in Cockthorpe #LEAP #Surfaces #Cockthorpe https://t.co/naFIhrZjOW

— Playground Surfaces (@playsurfaceuk) July 5, 2020

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[ukplaygroundsurfaces]

Local Equipped Area of Play in Cockthorpe #LEAP #Surfaces #Cockthorpe https://t.co/naFIhrZjOW

Local Equipped Area of Play in Cockthorpe #LEAP #Surfaces #Cockthorpe https://t.co/naFIhrZjOW

— Playground Surfaces (@playsurfaceuk) July 5, 2020

[steenpaal]

Grime's Graves - Wikipedia

flint mine

Grime's Graves is a large Neolithic flint mining complex in Norfolk, England. It lies 8 km (5.0 mi) north east from Brandon, Suffolk in the East of England. It was worked between c. 2600 and c. 2300 BC, although production may have continued well into the Bronze and Iron Ages (and later) owing to the low cost of flint compared with metals. Flint was much in demand for making polished stone axes in the Neolithic period. Much later, when flint had been replaced by metal tools, flint nodules were in demand for other uses, such as for building and as strikers for muskets.

The scheduled monument[1] extends over an area of some 37 ha (91 acres) and consists of at least 433 shafts dug into the natural chalk to reach seams of flint. The largest shafts are more than 14 m (46 ft) deep and 12 m (39 ft) in diameter at the surface. It has been calculated that more than 2,000 tonnes of chalk had to be removed from the larger shafts, taking 20 men around five months, before stone of sufficient quality was reached. An upper 'topstone' and middle 'wallstone' seam of flint was dug through on the way to the deeper third 'floorstone' seam which most interested the miners. The site is managed by English Heritage and can be visited.

The site is also a biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest[2] and a Geological Conservation Review site.[3] It is part of the Breckland Special Area of Conservation[4] and Special Protection Area.[5]

Mining method

Plan of old shaft and galleries

In order to remove the chalk efficiently, the ancient miners built wooden platforms and ladders as they dug downwards and piled the spoil around the shaft opening using turf revetments to hold it in place for the season, when the shaft and all its galleries were thoroughly and fastidiously backfilled to promote stability. The landscape around Grime's Graves has a characteristic pockmarked appearance caused by the infilled shafts. This is probably what inspired the later Anglo-Saxon inhabitants of the area to name it after their god Grim (literally the masked, or hooded one, a euphemism for Woden). Although the pagan Anglo-Saxons seem to have had some idea of what the site was, as the name of the site means literally "the masked one's quarries" (or Grim's Graben), it was not until Canon William Greenwell excavated one of the shafts in 1868–1870 that their purpose was discovered in modern times. Other similar sites have been found in Europe like Cissbury in West Sussex, Krzemionki in Poland, and Spiennes in Belgium.

The miners used picks fashioned from the antler of red deer. They probably used wooden shovels, although this is only inferred by analogy with other flint mines with better conditions for the preservation of artefacts. Analysis of the antlers (Clutton-Brock 1984: 25) has shown that the miners were mainly right-handed and favoured the left antlers out of those that were naturally shed seasonally by the deer. The 28 pits excavated up to 2008 yielded an average of 142.5 antler picks each, of which an average of 14.8 have been found to be left-handed.

Once they had reached the floorstone flint, the miners dug lateral galleries outwards from the bottom, following the flint seam. The medium-depth shafts yielded as much as 60 tons of flint nodules, which were brought to the surface and roughly worked into shape on site. The blank tools were then possibly traded elsewhere for final polishing. It is estimated that 60 tons of flint could have produced as many as 10,000 of the polished stone axes, which were the mines' main product. Extrapolation across the site suggests that Grime's Graves may have produced around 16–18,000 tonnes of flint across the 433 shafts recorded to date. However, there are large areas of the site covered by later activity which are believed to conceal many more mineshafts.

There were other hard stones used for axe manufacture, those of the Langdale axe industry and Penmaenmawr in North Wales being traded across Europe, as well as other less well-known igneous and metamorphic rocks. The axes were much in demand for forest clearance and settlement, development of farmland for arable crops and raising animals, which characterises the Neolithic period.

Customs and beliefs

Neolithic flint axe, about 31 cm (12 in) long

One unproductive shaft (pit 15) appears to have been turned into a shrine. An altar of flint lumps had been built with a chalk bowl at its base and antler picks piled around. In front of the altar had been placed a Venus figurine of chalk, a chalk phallus and some balls, also of chalk. It may have been an attempt to ensure that the mine remained productive or 'fertile' after this particular shaft turned out to have little flint in it. However, it is possible that the Venus figurine and the phallus are modern fakes – there is a lack of primary evidence surrounding their recovery in 1939, and rumours circulated at the time of the excavation that they were planted in order to deceive Leslie Armstrong, the archaeologist overseeing the dig.(Piggot 1986: 190, Longworth et al. 1991: 103–105).

Neolithic infrastructure

The remains of mineshafts, pits, and spoil heaps pockmark the surface of Grime's Graves

Such a large industry may have required supporting infrastructure. Assuming no more than two shafts were open at any one time, around 120 red deer may have needed to be bred and managed nearby, in order to provide a steady supply of antler as well as skin, food and other products that the miners would require. Alternatively, the mines may have been worked intermittently by local farmers, as happened in many early metal mines during the Bronze Age and the later Iron Age.

Earlier flint mines in Britain such as Cissbury in Sussex were just as important as Grime's Graves, and there were many very local sources of flint which were exploited on the downlands. However, it is probably relevant that Grime's Graves were close to the very rich soils of the Fens, and forest clearance here would rely on local products.

There was also extensive farming settlement during the Bronze Age, known from middens that infill the mouths of many Neolithic mineshafts. Animal bones from these middens show that the Bronze Age people kept cattle, which they milked, sheep and a few pigs. They also grew barley, wheat and peas.

The site today

Grime's Graves is in the care of English Heritage. It is open to the public and it is possible to descend a 9 m (30 ft) ladder and explore one of the shafts. There is a small exhibition area.[6] This is the only shaft of its kind open to the public in Britain.

Publications

The full English Heritage reports on the excavations at Grime's Graves in 1971–72[7][8] are now available online through the Archaeology Data Service. Doctor Philip Harding FSA, later to appear in the TV programme Time Team, dug the site each summer from 1972 to 1976.

The visitor's hut and picnic tables.

The entrance to Pit I at Grime's Graves, the only flint mine open to the public.

One of the many pits at Grime's Graves.

The first of two Second World War foxholes at Grime's Graves, located between the car park and visitor's centre.

The second of two Second World War foxholes at Grime's Graves, located on the eastern side of the site.

The exhibit in the visitor's centre.

Multimedia exhibit at the visitor's centre.

See also

References

Russell, M., (2000) Flint Mines in Neolithic Britain. Tempus. Stroud, ISBN 075241481X

Russell, M., (2002) Monuments of the British Neolithic: The Roots of Architecture. Tempus. Stroud, ISBN 0752419536

Barber, M., Field D., Topping, P, (1999)The Neolithic Flint Mines of England, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England / English Heritage, ISBN 1-873592-41-8

Piggott, S., (1986) 'Early British craftsmen' Antiquity LX No 230, Pages 189-192.

Clutton-Brock, J., (1984) Excavations at Grime's Graves Norfolk 1972-1976 Fascicule 1: Neolithic Antler Picks From Grime's Graves, Norfolk, And Durrington Walls, Wiltshire: A Biometrical Analysis, British Museum Press, ISBN 0-7141-1374-3

Longworth, I., Herne, A., Varndell, G. and Needham, S., (1991) Excavations at Grimes Graves Norfolk 1972-1976 Fascicule 3: Shaft X: Bronze Age Flint, Chalk and Metalworking, British Museum Press, ISBN 0-7141-1396-4

Legge, A. J. (1991) Excavations at Grime's Graves Norfolk 1972-1976 Fascicule 4: Animals, Environment and the Bronze Age Economy. London, British Museum Press, ISBN 0-7141-1399-9

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