#Longbarrow

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Ancient Britain

Ancient Britain was a landmass on the northwest of the continent of Europe first occupied by humans c. 800,000 years ago prior to it becoming an island c. 6000 BCE due to flooding which separated it from the mainland. Agriculture began to develop in the region c. 4200 BCE encouraging the development of civilization.

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Grande-Bretagne antique

La Grande-Bretagne antique était une masse continentale située au nord-ouest du continent européen. Elle fut occupée pour la première fois par l'homme il y a environ 800 000 ans, avant de se transformer en île vers 6000 avant notre ère, en raison d'une inondation qui la sépara à tout jamais du continent. L'agriculture commença à se développer dans la région vers 4200 avant notre ère, ce qui permit l'essor de la civilisation humaine.

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Das mittlere der Großsteingräber von Haaßel, erneut besucht

The central megalithic tomb at Haaßel, revisited

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Späte Jungsteinzeit, 3500 - 2800 v. Chr. | Late Neolithic age, 3500 - 2800 BC

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[memories-of-ancients]

No one built these for 5,000 years ... until now

from Tom Scott

[swordvixen]

Some film shots from a trip to the Chalk Horse at Uffington, the Ridgeway, Wayland's Smithly Longbarrow, West Kennet Longbarrow, and finally Avebury. This was a university field trip called "Sacred Pagan Sites."

It was probably shot on some 400 speed Fujifilm color stock or another. That was my go-to back then and I've got a roll in the little Vivitar I keep in my purse even now.

This trip was one of the trigger moments I think, that made me want to go look for that village I spent all the rest of my time in the UK looking for. And I discovered years later that I did have a connection to the Salisbury Plain as well though the nature of it eluded me for a long time.

Weirdness aside, it was an excellent day out. Fresh bracing spring air, lovely surroundings, friendly people, and a little dog named Basil who hopped in my lap in a cozy pub we stopped in.

[geopsych]

Today is the ninth anniversary of the day I visited the Uffington White Horse and while walking on that landscape alone had what I can only describe as a transcendent experience, a description I don't use lightly. For a while it was as if I had stepped out of time, out of the world into a parallel version of the landscape in which it knew me in some way and communicated something to me without words. I felt quietly elated. I don't know how long it lasted. I walked to Dragon Hill and watched a red kite, a hawk we would call it here, soar over the part of the landscape they call the manger. I could see it from above. I remember the wildflowers near the small road, several kinds including orchids at the bottom of the trail that I knew came down from the Horse although I hadn't walked on it. I stopped to look at them and at a strange insect called a Devil's coach horse. I looked at two hawthorn trees along the road and then as I walked back to the parking lot skylarks rose, one after another after another into the sky singing. I think my heart tried to rise with them. It felt like hair was rising on my arms and the back of my neck although I had certainly seen skylarks before. It felt like a goodbye. By the time I reached the parking lot and a friend who was waiting there I had come back to the world again. (I would post pictures but although I thought at the time I was taking them apparently my camera had stopped working and there was nothing on the memory card at the end of the day. Nothing.) It's funny that this post about the Horse showed up on my dash today of all days. One more thing to mention, the Horse also plays a part in the Tiffany Aching books by Terry Pratchett, mostly as a piece of jewellery. He describes it well.

im having feelings about the uffington white horse again

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Wilthurio Longbarrow Sackfirth Toxophola Fedlric Fritillary Wilfrand Hurdleframe Longarrow Leawelt Pugnacio Cinnabar Hillwether Jodrellio

[janeturenne]

Hey so I'm that weirdo who turns up on the internet once every two years and then vanishes again into the ether...

Okay, first things first: I'm gonna be at Big Finish Day in London tomorrow. If you're there, please say hi! I'll be in CIA-Ace cosplay, complete with Docs and bomber jacket.

The big thing, tho, is that, after 15-odd years of ficwriting, I have finally gone "...these literal millions of words of fiction that I've written probably at some point began to constitute the kind of thing that even late-stage capitalism would recognize as Labor, huh." So when my husband and I started toying around with a premise based on our RP characters, I went - fuck it. Imma polish this up, put it on Wattpad and see if I can't take a crack at actually making a living from my writing. I've only wanted to be a writer since I was, y'know, five. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, yeah?

And so I've posted the first two chapters of a new original novel - not the one that some of you may have heard me talk about before (which I'm still being a bit precious about and trying to save for a publisher), but one that, if you've read and enjoyed anything else I've ever written, I hope you might like. It's Victorian and fluffy and romantic and, I hope, sexy, but it's also full of literary allusions, banter and female characters who absolutely will not be fucked with. Mostly it exists, in fact, as a giant middle finger to Leo Tolstoy, because I hate Anna Karenina on such a visceral level that it takes 60,000 words to say how much. Also, if you look at some of the characters, squint and go "...they look familiar," you're probably right. The main stately house is called Longbarrow Hall, that's all I'm gonna say about that.

So! If you've ever read and enjoyed anything I've ever written, can I please ask you to at least take a look, and consider sharing this post? Even if you find it's not really your thing, it would be so helpful to me to get eyes on it, especially early on. It's 100% written at this point, and is posting in 20 chapters. The first two are up today, and the subsequent ones will post every Friday hereafter.

Thank you very much! If you'd like to learn more, a full description is under the cut below.

No Doom But Bliss, by Jane Turenne, on Wattpad

A story of hard-won second chances, No Doom But Bliss is for fans of Bridgerton, Downton Abbey and Outlander, or anyone who likes their bodice-ripping grown-up, feminist, and a little messy.

Lady Tess Keighley has long since realised, too late, that her husband's interest in her is political rather than personal. Edmund got exactly what he wanted from marriage into her family: the office of Prime Minister. Tess, on the other hand, got a decade of neglect and cruelty that has left her believing herself wholly undesirable.

But that isn't what Kantor Mamblestone - Scotsman, ex-soldier, and currently her husband's secretary - sees when he looks at Tess. Her beauty, brains and sweetness are enough to leave his previously respectable Victorian soul in no little degree of torment. And, sweet though she may be, Tess has more fight in her than it seems…

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I'm currently working on the visuals to accompany the sound collage I've been putting together for Gwyl Ffynnon Garon in Tregaron (March 3-5th 2023). The piece evolved as I was assembling it, and I restarted it several times as a narrative of sorts began to emerge from what seemed very abstract at the beginning. It's a piece linking Wales and Wiltshire, both culturally (via the Stonehenge bluestones) but also personally via my relatives and ancestors. The field recordings were made in Powys, Ceredigion and Wiltshire and most of the images were too, although a couple of Somerset longbarrows can be spotted. Recurring themes are water, sacred springs, stones, trees, earth and pylons. Megalithic sites feature heavily. The sounds are bookended by a combination of Stonehenge Winter Solstice and the Amesbury lantern walk, both recorded in 2022. Tickets for the festival can be found here

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Centre for Poetry and Poetics Presents: A Reading with Karl Riordan, Pete Green, Steve Ely and Rory Waterman

5TH OF NOVEMBER THE DIAMOND, LT2, 6PM-8PM

Karl Riordan is a working-class writer based in Sheffield after stints around the UK & Ireland and considering his next move. 'The Tattooist's Chair' is his first poetry collection from Smokestack Press and just published ‘Tinikling’ drawing upon his links with the Philippines. He has an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Sheffield. Daljit Nagra said, he writes of ‘[a]n ordinary world illuminated by a seeing-eye that persistently finds understated wonder.’ By day, he’s worked underage on building sites, was a barber, scrap-collector, teacher, Disability Support Worker, and a postal worker - and lasted a full week. He currently works as a Library Assistant for the Rotherham Library Service. He’s working on another collection of poems and a book of short stories.

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Pete Green is a poet and musician who has lived in Sheffield for 20 years. They grew up in the port of Grimsby, lovingly parented by a fish filleter and a lollipop lady. Living first on the edge of the land itself, and more recently near the edge of a largely post-industrial city, Pete has become preoccupied with the way places fade into each other and shift over time – and perhaps most of all with how people influence places and places influence people. These concerns are the driving force behind Pete's first full-length collection The Meanwhile Sites, published in 2022 by Salt and described by Helen Mort as "feral, elegant and beautifully observed". Much of the book was informed by visits to coastal locations, from Orkney to Dungeness, though these are juxtaposed with observations of big cities, including the temporary London housing estate built from shipping containers which inspired the collection's title. Pete has been active as a musician for far longer than as a poet, though these days they prefer to concentrate on poetry because there's less heavy stuff to carry. Encouraged by discovering the output of Sheffield's Longbarrow Press, Pete started to write poetry again in 2014 after a gap of more than 20 years. Their pamphlet Sheffield Almanac and short book Hemisphere were published by Longbarrow in 2017 and 2021 respectively. Other work by Pete has been longlisted in the National Poetry Competition and shortlisted for the Brotherton Poetry Prize, whose chair of judges Simon Armitage praised Pete's "lyrical dexterity" and described them as "a poet alive to the challenges of the post-modernist era".

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Steve Ely is a poet, novelist, biographer and teacher of creative writing. He has published thirteen books or pamphlets of poetry, most recently Eely (Longbarrow Press, 2024) and Orasaigh (Broken Sleep Books, August, 2024). He’s currently working on a critical work, Ted Hughes’s Expressionism, a novel entitled The Quoz and an infinitely expanding, limitless poetic sequence, Terra Incognito.

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Rory Waterman's fourth and most recent collection is Come Here to This Gate, published by Carcanet in April this year. He lives in Nottingham.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/.../reading-karl-riordan-pete...

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Listed: Andrew Lampe

Andrew Lampe is the sole member of Invultation, the black/death (or “war metal”) project out of Columbus, OH. Andrew is mostly known for his solo work throughout the past 15 years, including projects that span the various sub-genres of extreme metal such as: The Wakedead Gathering, Debauch, Irradiated, LONGBARROW and Echushkya. The newest Invultation album, Feral Legion, was released by Sentient Ruin Laboratories on August 18th, 2023. Dusted reviewed it, here, noting that the record “launches precipitously into black/death’s hammering, crunching, high-velocity intensities,” with music that is “feral, sharply clawed and full of rage.”

Here's a list of things that have inspired and influenced Lampe.

Bolt Thrower — “At First Light”

To start off this list, why not go with (in my opinion) the greatest opening track of all time. Every time I listen to this track it makes me want to run headfirst into battle. Bolt Thrower released nothing but classic albums and their dedication to excellence has always been a quality that I try to emulate.

King Diamond/Mercyful Fate

Both of these bands are in my top 5 of heavy metal bands but I have to give a slight edge to King’s solo work since Andy LaRocque is one of my favorite guitarists. The idea of each album having a story and theme has also been immensely influential to my own music, especially for The Wakedead Gathering.

Archgoat — “Grand Luciferian Theophany”

If you listen to any Invultation material beyond the demo you can hear the Archgoat influence almost immediately. This track, in particular, is the inspiration for the slower riffs that I use fairly frequently in “breakdown” parts. There’s just something about the groove that Archgoat is able to achieve in their slower riffs that is so catchy and dark sounding.

Incantation — “Upon The Throne of Apocalypse”

One of the first death metal bands that I ever got into; this album is perfection of the OSDM sound. The rough mix enhances the atmosphere of these tracks. I throw on this record pretty regularly for inspiration and just to headbang like a lunatic.

Gravesend — Methods Of Human Disposal

These guys kind of came out of nowhere a few years ago and after hearing their demo I was immediately hooked. I don’t know of any other band right now that crushes as hard as Gravesend. Getting to see them live was one of the highlights of my year in 2022.

Dark Angel — “Time Does Not Heal”

I know that this album isn’t usually the favorite for fans of Dark Angel, but I absolutely love it. Famous for containing 246 riffs, but not a single one of them sounds like filler or seems unnecessary. Also, lyrically, they really put a lot of thought and emotion into each track. When I can’t think of an album to put on and I want something fast I always end up going back to this one.

Vader — “De Profundis”

Another of my first tastes of death metal was Vader. This album comes raging right out of the gate with, “Silent Empire.” The part that starts at 2:40 goes so fucking hard. It’s impossible not to thrash around like a maniac when it hits.

Kohti Tuhoa

I also have a background in punk music and I love hardcore and d-beat, especially from the Scandinavian scenes. Kohti Tuhoa keep churning out catchy, aggressive albums that I can’t get enough of. Helena’s vocals sound so pissed off, but she also has such a great range. I highly recommend anything they’ve done.

Savage Necromancy — “Feathers Fall to Flames”

Another modern black/death band that appears heavily influenced by Archgoat. The opening track to this album sets the tone for the rest of what’s to come (sensing a trend here?). An insanely strong vocal performance and crushing production. One of my favorite albums to come out in the last few years.

Occultation — “Silence In The Ancestral House”

Fall has officially begun, and I can’t think of another album that so perfectly captures the feeling of the season. It’s a shame this band broke up after only two albums, but at least we were left with this amazing album. The track I highlighted here, “All Hallow’s Fire,” is the ultimate Halloween song to me.

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Coldrum Longbarrow- Kent UK

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Tumulus Allongé

Un tumulus allongé (Long Barrow en anglais) est un type de monuments funéraires du Néolithique moyen (environ 3500-2700 av. J.-C.) que l'on trouve largement dans les îles britanniques et qui est lié à d'autres formes de traditions contemporaines de construction de tombes du nord-ouest de l'Europe, en particulier celle du nord de la France.

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My people.

... or at least my name ...

I never knew about this until I saw this post on IG

https://www.instagram.com/p/CR_Yi3qNX04/?utm_medium=copy_link

[lord-allo]

Mittleres Grab der Königsgräber von Haaßel | Central tomb, Royal tombs of Haaßel

>> Eines von drei Großsteingräbern bei Altenmedingen, erneut besucht

>> One of three megalithic tombs nearby Altenmedingen revisited

Späte Jungsteinzeit, 3500 - 2800 v. Chr. | Late Neolithic age, 3500 - 2800 BC