Ancient monuments?

[classic33]

A lot of people tell me I'm too morbid for wanting to spend time in old graveyards

There's history in old graveyards.

http://foto.clarelibrary.ie/fotoweb/Grid.fwx?archiveId=5024&position=1&search=

 

[srw]

On a different computer I've got loads of photos of monuments on Orkney, many of which are older than Stonehenge and Avebury. At home we've also got a couple of Skaill knives picked up off the beach of the Bay of Skaill (with the encouragement of a local archaelogist) - single-use scrapers from 5000 years ago or so.

 

[raleighnut]

On a different computer I've got loads of photos of monuments on Orkney, many of which are older than Stonehenge and Avebury. At home we've also got a couple of Skaill knives picked up off the beach of the Bay of Skaill (with the encouragement of a local archaelogist) - single-use scrapers from 5000 years ago or so.

The flint 'knives' will just get broken down into sand by the waves eventually, best to take them home.

 

[srw]

The flint 'knives' will just get broken down into sand by the waves eventually, best to take them home.

Sandstone, not flint! Orkney doesn't really do flint.

 

[raleighnut]

Sandstone, not flint! Orkney doesn't really do flint.

My mistake, They look to be made in a similar way though, slivers struck from a bigger rock.

 

[classic33]

There's history in old graveyards.

http://foto.clarelibrary.ie/fotoweb/Grid.fwx?archiveId=5024&position=1&search=

Started as a way of getting schoolkids interested in local history. Research their own families.

 

[dellzeqq]

My great great grandfather, and his father and his father before him (and so on and so forth) were from Cerne Abbas. Hence the seventeeth century 'portrait'...

 

[summerdays]

Started as a way of getting schoolkids interested in local history. Research their own families.

I first started doing my family history when staying at my grandparents as a teen... Something to do, though I ended up with far too many relatives because my granny would call them by their proper names one time, then Cissie etc the next... Took a few years to sort out the basic information! But I think I already liked visiting ancient monuments.