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The day the stags roared
It was a day when the stags roared. We walked along routes used in ages past. Along tarmacked roads, past machair and grey-blue sea. Then inland. Green grazed fields, golden moor and heather, sheep, geese and buzzard, onto earth and … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeology, current landscape, Isle of Mull, landscape, past landscape, past lives, standing stone
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Footprints, traces and lines
The memory of landscape; remnants of the past, traces of former actions. Traces of past lives: a footprint here, a line there, impressed, inscribed, drawn into the landscape. Some last but a fleeting moment. Others endure through the centuries, millennia … Continue reading
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Tagged current landscape, landscape, past landscape, past lives
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Home
This is something I wrote just before Christmas last year. I didn’t post it on this blog then but, as I have been thinking again recently about the meaning of home, I thought I would post it here now. It … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeology, Edinburgh, experience, Glasgow, landscape, past landscape, past lives, Scotland
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The mound
I climb the stairs out of the train station, make my way along the bridge high above the train tracks, out onto the Main Street and turn east. Passing familiar landmarks – the bank, the little jeweller’s shop, the church … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient monument, archaeology, current landscape, past landscape, prehistory, Rutherglen, Scotland
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A map of memories
Today I went on a journey without leaving my living room. Busyness and a bout of flu have meant that I have not been able to get out and about recently and I was feeling restless so, as an antidote, … Continue reading
The Old Woman
The Caliach or old woman. She stands on a hillside overlooking the sea, tall, thin and ancient, battered a little by the years, keeping lonely watch, millennia long. Penned in now as if there were a need to imprison and control … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient monument, current landscape, Isle of Mull, past landscape, Scotland, standing stone
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Glimpsing the past in the trees
In December last year I, along with a group of family and friends, went for a walk in Pollok Park in Glasgow. Walking in the woodland gardens above Pollok House, we came across the Pollok beech. Oddly shaped, old and … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeology, natural features, Neolithic, past landscape, past lives, Pollok, Pollok Park, prehistory, Scotland, timber monuments, trees
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Echoes
I’ve recently been reading the novel Emily Climbs by L M Montgomery (of Anne of Green Gables fame). Becoming curious about L M Montgomery’s life, I undertook a quick internet search and found some biographical information (http://www.lmmontgomery.ca/aboutlmm/herlife). As a collector … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeology, Edinburgh, Emily Climbs, landscape, Lucy Maud Montgomery, past landscape, past lives
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A new landscape?
I’ve just moved to Leith, in Edinburgh, and have become intrigued with the history of the area and of my tenement building in particular, so I’ve begun to do little internet research to see what I can find out. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Edinburgh, Leith, past landscape, Scotland, social history
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pondering the past 