#west kennet

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[fallbabylon]

West Kennet Long Barrow- Wiltshire, UK 

[faelocked]

from inside the barrow

[bwthornton]

#Archaeology Painting the Past: Reconstruction of West Kennet Long Barrow under construction Wessex Archaeology

https://stratford-upon-avon-theatre.blogspot.com/2023/01/archaeology-painting-past.html

[geopsych]

5 years ago today on the path from West Kennet Long Barrow, looking toward Silbury Hill. It was a beautiful morning and I took lots of pictures but I won’t flood you with them. I recommend staying in Avebury, getting up before sunrise and walking through the fields to these ancient sites. It’s a mood.

[rherlotshadow]

Flower offerings for the summer solstice at West Kennet long barrow.

Wiltshire

[fandom-friday]

Thank you so much to everyone that submitted recommendations this week! A comprehensive list of this week’s submissions can be found under the cut! Recommendations are organized by show/media, and any main pairings will be listed after the title.

✨ = 18+ content

Fics:

The Clone Wars: ✨ In Command (Captain Rex x OFC Senna Aven) by @wild-karrde ✨ Walk Me Home (Commander Wolffe x OFC Cherise) by @cyarbika Dominoes by @meridiansdominoes

The Bad Batch: ✨ Quiet Corners of the Galaxy (Crosshair x OFC Dara) by @badbatchposts Fools Errand (Crosshair x OFC Doc) by @staycalmandhugaclone Brother, My Brother by @iiidunno He's Not Heavy, He's My Brother by @therisingdarkness The Hardest Word by @therisingdarkness How Long Will it Take for You to Learn to Slow Down? by @saturn-sends-hugs

Star Wars Prequel Series: ✨ Unbreakable Bonds (Obi-Wan Kenobi x OFC Cressida Vox) by @thegreatwicked ✨ Memories of Chocolate Laced Kisses (Obi-Wan Kenobi x OFC Cressida Vox) by @thegreatwicked Lover, Fighter (Obi-Wan Kenobi x f!Reader) by @thegreatwicked

Republic Commando: The Revenant (Sev x OFC Kiva) by @mikaiyawa

Batman: Where the East and the West Meet by CassowaryFinch (AO3) Rules Were Made Because of Dick Grayson by KitsuneThorn (AO3)

Art:

The Clone Wars: Captain Rex Art by @catd3mon Commander Wolffe Art by @chyarui Shaak Ti Art by @coldbrewarts OC Grim Kennet Inquisitor AU Art by @thechaoticfanartist

The Bad Batch: Tech Art by @vimse Crosshair Art by @forcesavetheclones

Rebels: Kalluzeb Art by @designsbyjoe

Miscellaneous: Horse Art (1 2) by @sometimesanequine

[azvolrien]

Just because I've been thinking about it of late, here are some old pictures of Stonehenge from my 2006 holiday in Wiltshire.

The monument itself is impressive, but between its fame and its easily-accessible location (there's a busy trunk road only some 200m away) it was very busy then and I expect it's worse now, so if you want somewhere with a bit more atmosphere I recommend checking out some of the quieter prehistoric sites in the area. Try heading up to Avebury; the West Kennet Long Barrow is pretty cool.

[mydonkeyfeet]

Me: I love dark enclosed secret places, like little tunnels and caves, basement stairs, secret passages, stone burial chambers and cairns! And cozy ones like box beds, pod/capsule hotels, sleeper train compartments! I don't get claustrophobia. It's the opposite, I love those! Claustrophilia? Is that what it would be called?

*looks up claustrophilia*

Dictionary: Claustrophilia is a term for the sexual attraction to being in confined spaces.

NO THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEAN! Is there a suffix about liking something but not being sexually aroused??? I just like them as friends!

Anyway, I'm about to start building a miniature dollhouse sized stone well/shaft tomb thing that I saw in a dream, and I've been saving lots of reference pictures so here you go, look at them. (Not my pictures but from Pinterest.)

This is a souterrain, an ancient long underground stone passage, on St. Kilda, Scotland. I went in there and was happy as a clam. SO COOL. If I owned land, I would build little souterrains and chambered cairns on it.

Mousa broch, Shetland. Gorgeous. I whooshed up those stairs so fast.

West Kennet long barrow. I've never been there but it looks like an excellent barrow.

I don't even know where this is but isn't it beautiful?

[booksandchainmail]

Pale 7.x

“I’m not really very drunk,” she told him, sitting down beside him, and laying a hand on his shoulder.  “I’m other things.  If you’re tapped out, you and I could retire upstairs.  Work out the leftover restlessness and adrenaline of the day.”

OKAY. DID NOT SEE THAT COMING. big win for people who ship their teachers I guess? Though I'm assuming from the "Before" header that this is a flashback

Larry Bristow laughed at something.

I could have been calling him Larry this whole time...

Here, in a bar, late at night, the group of them gathered, her slightly inebriated, tired self was akin to a tiger stretched out in a sunbeam. The claws so easily protruded as she stretched.

... hot

Luisa Crowe choked on her drink.

don't think we've heard of her before. Or of any family members.

Just a week or two off of her latest hunt, she was willing and wanting to track down this Blue Heron Throne god, while Alexander did the legwork to bring them all together.

So this is how the school got founded. It's so weird to see them all friendly and relaxed together

Thoughtful and lost in thought. He was hard to get to know, and much of that had to be done not by reaching out or studying him, but by studying what he offered and what he asked, when he finally decided what he could ask that might be a good question. Seeking validation and respect in the opposite way to how Larry did. Too subtle, instead of too forced.

keeping this in mind as an analysis of Charles. Strange to think of him socializing with this circle of other practitioners. Does he miss any of them?

Charles looked bewildered.  “I mean I’m not a threat, I’m willing to help but… I know how cutthroat practitioner society can be, and I imagine hollywood or any other high society is the same.  I’d rather keep my throat intact.”

didn't really work out for him huh

“Smart,” Alexander said.  “I don’t think I’d have it in me to hold back on revenge.”

:(

Luisa looked troubled, like she was going to say something, but she was interrupted.

think I understand why Luisa didn't stick around with this group

“There is no police force governing us.  We’re still, generally speaking, in a wild west of practice,” Alexander said.  “If you don’t act with prejudice, you’re setting precedent.”

I think setting a precedent of not using overwhelming lethal force is a good thing

“Charles,” Larry said.  “When we were mid-job, you mentioned these special Others.” “Others, bound by rules, get certain leeway. If they must ask questions or must do certain things, like a revenant having a very specific path laid out before it, that’s… in our analogy of a bank heist, it’s the drill. It’s more solid, it has more force.”

I wonder if this applies to any of the Kennet Others?

"Figurines were soaked into the muck. I want one, but failing that, I want it gone.”

I'm assuming that this will unbind a goddess Durocher draws on for power? Would that just weaken her, or would the goddess then be out for revenge?

The Kennet trio send friendly Others home. He waited, studying the photograph for details. The inscription was telling. The phrasing. Not unsummoning, not releasing. Just… sending them home.

wild practitioners!

Black ink bled into the photograph, taking on three dimensions in the scene. “Abandonment,” Alexander said. “A connection severed.”

what will this do? Just pick a random connection to sever? Most obvious would be to each other, but I think that would need more effort. The word "abandonment" makes me think about their families though, and I'm concerned that how much they've been using connection blockers might backfire

A few out in these woods, like Lucy Ellingson, who was going for a walk, now severed from critical connections. They wouldn’t renew.

which critical connections?! all of them? Connections this could potentially touch on: Avery and Verona, her family, Kennet Others, people at the school. The last two don't feel critical necessarily (annoying but the other two can help). I'm worried that this will just have people forget about her entirely, hopefully not everyone and not irreversibly.

“The first option is that you tell me everything I want to know, then die by your own hand.  The second option is that you Awaken fully to this world and swear undying fealty to me in the process.”

these are bad options

He jerked, and for a moment, saw only stars, heard only raucous noise.  His eyes rolled up and his head turned skyward.

umm

“Go home,” John Stiles told him.

why is john suddenly here??? I guess he wasn't mentioned when Alexander spied on the girls sending people home, so maybe he's doing a search of the woods first?

“Yeah.  I won’t say anything.  I could help with the body, and the crime scene.”

did John kill Alexander?! I thought the bits at the end of the last section (jerking, head dropping, kneeling) was Alexander preparing some practice, but did he just get shot?

... hilarious if so. What a way to go, in the middle of his dramatic scheming

“His head-” Lucy said.  “It’s gone.  Cracked open.” She sounded so much like a kid.

:(

Lucy is getting so much gun violence-related trauma

John walked, long, quick steps, until he stood between her and the body.  He put a hand out to steady her, to keep her from pulling away or moving to a point where she could keep looking.

and I'm glad he's looking out for her. Honestly, John becoming Lucy's familiar is looking like a better thing the more we see

“It protects Kennet,” she said.  She was still shaky, but she stepped back so she could meet John’s eyes.  “That’s my responsibility.”

I mean it's messed-up to have a kid taking on that level of responsibility, but I do love this

“I was thinking about him being my familiar.” John remained standing where he was. He wasn’t sure he was supposed to hear this, but… “…Not so much anymore.”

oh. Or that. I suppose the corollary to having John as her familiar would mean she wouldn't have to personally do violence is that a lot of problems would be getting solved violently in front of her

... I wonder if that was the connection that Alexander severed

[transgenderer]

Long barrows are a style of monument constructed across Western Europe in the fifth and fourth millennia BCE, during the Early Neolithic period. Typically constructed from earth and either timber or stone, those using the latter material represent the oldest widespread tradition of stone construction in the world. Around 40,000 long barrows survive today.

The structures have a long earthen tumulus, or "barrow", that is flanked on two sides with linear ditches. These typically stretch for between 20 and 70 metres in length, although some exceptional examples are either longer or shorter than this. Some examples have a timber or stone chamber in one end of the tumulus. These monuments often contained human remains interred within their chambers, and as a result, are often interpreted as tombs, although there are some examples where this appears not to be the case.

The purpose and meaning of the barrows remains an issue of debate among archaeologists. One argument is that they are religious sites, perhaps erected as part of a system of ancestor veneration or as a religion spread by missionaries or settlers. An alternative explanation views them primarily in economic terms, as territorial markers delineating the areas controlled by different communities as they transitioned toward farming.

In some cases, the bones deposited in the chamber may have been old when placed there.[17] In other instances, they may have been placed into the chamber long after the long barrow was built.[17] In some instances, collections of bone originally included in the chamber might have been removed and replaced during the Early Neolithic itself.[36]

The human remains placed in long barrows often included a mix of men, women, and children.[33] The bones of various individuals were often mixed together.[33] This may have reflected a desire to obliterate distinctions of wealth and status among the deceased.[33] Not all of those who died in the Early Neolithic were buried in these long barrows, although it remains unknown what criteria were used to determine whose remains were interred there and whose were not.[37] Large sections of the Early Neolithic population were not buried in them, although how their bodily remains are dealt with is not clear.[26] It is possible that they were left in the open air.[26]

It is also not known where the act of excarnation (removal of flesh from bones) took place prior to the deposition of bones within the chambers.[36] Some human bones have been found in the ditches of causewayed enclosures, a form of Early Neolithic earthen monument, while evidence for the Early Neolithic outdoor exposure of corpses has also been found at Hambledon Hill.[36] The postholes found in front of many long barrows may also have represented the bases of platforms on which excarnation took place.[36]

Sometimes human remains were deposited in the chambers over many centuries.[17] For instance, at West Kennet Long Barrow in Wiltshire, southern England, the earliest depositions of human remains were radiocarbon dated to the early-to-mid fourth millennium BCE, while a later deposition of human remains was found to belong to the Beaker culture, thus indicating a date in the final centuries of the third millennium BCE; this meant that human remains had been placed into the chamber intermittently over a period of 1500 years.[17]

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kennet long barrow

[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.

[dflogerzi]

@itgoesbyquickly I came back to answer after thinking about this for a while. I spent over three decades going to Europe as often as possible... And if you were to ask me for the top 12 descriptive words, crowded would not have been on the list. Now thinking back... I suppose that in comparisons there are parts that are quite a bit crowded. But it never felt that way. The Europeans seemed to have this grace in living. It almost always felt to me like everyone was melting into the pace of the day. Even in the old days of touring and catching the busy undergrounds... it was like this dance of everyone going somewhere that was going to be a great destination. And it always felt like magic.

I suppose things did change in my view over the years, especially for me in London. That was harder to watch as more and more, people seemed more unfriendly and closed... Made me sad. But I digress.

It does change if you leave the cities you know. Just like here in America. If you can manage to get out io the countryside's and smaller towns and villages, you will discover new and wonderful places.

One of the quietest experiences that I could share off the top of my head is somewhere you might think would have a ton of people swarming... But it was West Kennet Long Barrow. Over 5,000 years old. The day I visited you just parked your car on the side of the road, down a bit from Silbury Hill, then pushed open an old gate and walked a small path. Next to nobody there. It was almost a spiritual experience for me at the time...

I suppose many things have changed, I have not been over in a while. But I really liked the question. I got to ponder on it all. Which means memories. Which always means happiness for me.

God bless Europe. And God save it.

Lisbon

[rherlotshadow]

Flower offerings inside West Kennet long barrow for the summer solstice.

[gentlyepigrams]

Avebury by Truus, Bob & Jan too! Avebury, England. Bob and Jan went on holiday to South West England. Avebury (/ˈeɪvbəri/) is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England. One of the best-known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to contemporary pagans. Constructed over several hundred years in the third millennium BC, during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, the monument comprises a large henge (a bank and a ditch) with a large outer stone circle and two separate smaller stone circles situated inside the centre of the monument. Its original purpose is unknown, although archaeologists believe that it was most likely used for some form of ritual or ceremony. The Avebury monument is part of a larger prehistoric landscape containing several older monuments nearby, including West Kennet Long Barrow, Windmill Hill and Silbury Hill. By the Iron Age, the site had been effectively abandoned, with some evidence of human activity on the site during the Roman period. During the Early Middle Ages, a village first began to be built around the monument, eventually extending into it. In the late medieval and early modern periods, local people destroyed many of the standing stones around the henge, both for religious and practical reasons. The antiquarians John Aubrey and William Stukeley took an interest in Avebury during the 17th and 18th centuries, respectively, and recorded much of the site between various phases of destruction. Archaeological investigation followed in the 20th century, with Harold St George Gray leading an excavation of the bank and ditch, and Alexander Keiller overseeing a project to reconstruct much of the monument. Source: Wikipedia.