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Stonehenge and Another Failing of Science.
Back in 2004 or thereabouts, after I’d left Wessex Archaeology and before I started my Eternal Idol site, I wrote a book on Stonehenge provisionally entitled A Glimpse of the Great Beyond, a work based on my absolute conviction that one … Continue reading
Posted in Antiquities, Dead Poets, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Stonehenge, Writing
Tagged Bluestones, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Stonehenge, The Magic of the Mind
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Oliver Cromwell and September the Third
Of all the figures from previous ages that I admire, Oliver Cromwell must be the one that comes to my mind most regularly, almost certainly because of what is to me his unforgettable date of death. This man died on … Continue reading
Posted in Dead Poets, Magic & the Supernatural, Writing
Tagged Oliver Cromwell, September 3rd
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The Dark Magic of the Msoura Ring
“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick In the north of Morocco, in the countryside south of Tangier, is an … Continue reading
Posted in Antiquities, Magic & the Supernatural, Stonehenge, Writing
Tagged Andrew Gough, Antaeus, Garden of Hesperides, Giants, Morocco, Msoura Ring, Sertorius, Stonehenge, Tangier
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The Choirboys
Last Sunday, my daughter Tanith presented me with a unique and unforgettable handmade card and a very welcome bottle of superior red wine for Father’s Day, while my son Jack bought me a book that had long been missing from … Continue reading
Scipio and Leonardo
Last Saturday, I was browsing through some books on sale at a stall at Exeter’s Respect Festival, when a historical novel dealing with Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus leapt out at me. I had previously read a trilogy of books dealing … Continue reading
The Stonehenge Tunnel – “This is the business we have chosen”.
Once this latest farce has run its full course, I would imagine that most observers would regard the saga of the Stonehenge Tunnel to be little more than another short-lived episode in the history of the ruins on the plain, … Continue reading
Posted in Antiquities, Current Affairs, Stonehenge, Writing
Tagged ICOMOS, ICOMOS-UK, Omar Khayyam, Stonehenge, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge tunnel, Tim Daw
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In Honour of William Peter Blatty
In the 1970s, when I was a teenager, I became fascinated by both the film and the novel of The Exorcist, while I remain so to this day. I could write at enormous length about why this should be, in … Continue reading
