Ancient monuments?

[Richard A Thackeray]

I see it everyday... got a lovely misty photo of it hung above my mantle.

I've visited it, in the past when staying at Keswick
The last time was when we had a 'Big White Shed On Wheels' (last one was sold in mid-2006) , & stayed at the campsite nearby

http://www.castlerigg.co.uk/

 

[Accy cyclist]

We pass this on the way to Settle every other week.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=s...ih=678&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0a

Is it an ancient monument?

 

[growingvegetables]

Is it an ancient monument?

It'd count as an ancient monument if it were still in Yorkshire, where it belongs. Don't really know about Lancashire though - maybe it counts as the height of modernity, your side of the Pennines .

 

[ufkacbln]

Modernity is in the eye of the beholder?

I spent almost a day in the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim

Most of it is a modern restoration of the more original church

However it looks and feels authentic and traditional

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

One of my favourite places, whenever I'm up there, I'll go sit near the packhorse bridge, down at Dob Park, & lose myself in the tranquillity, but imagining the times when the pack-horses were lead across it

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1558039843204&set=a.1535062828793.2076036.1601508436&type=3&theatre

 

[Deleted member 1258]

We pass this on the way to Settle every other week.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=s...ih=678&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0a

Is it an ancient monument?

Yes.

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/sawley-abbey/history/

 

[classic33]

One of my favourite places, whenever I'm up there, I'll go sit near the packhorse bridge, down at Dob Park, & lose myself in the tranquillity, but imagining the times when the pack-horses were lead across it

Just lost part of a local packhorse road. Contractors dug it up & removed the stones.

There is a Roman road nearby, along with the remains of a camp.

There's standing stones at Churn Milk Joan.

 

[raleighnut]

There is a fantastic stone circle in Derbyshire, Arbour Low just nr Monyash.

 

[tyred]

I've been to a few.

Carrowmore County Sligo

Carrowmore Neolithic monuments by braveheart1979, on Flickr

Carrowmore Neolithic monuments by braveheart1979, on Flickr


Carrowmore Neolithic monuments by braveheart1979, on Flickr

Carrowmore Neolithic monuments by braveheart1979, on Flickr
The Cairn on top of Knocknarea, Strandhill, Sligo

Knocknarea Co. Sligo by braveheart1979, on Flickr

Beltany Stone circle (just a few miles from my home)

Beltany stone circle by braveheart1979, on Flickr

Beltany Stone Circle by braveheart1979, on Flickr

Newgrange
Newgrange by braveheart1979, on Flickr
Newgrange by braveheart1979, on Flickr

And weirdly I have a love of old ruined churches and graveyards

Killaspugbrone Church, Strandhill Co. Sligo by braveheart1979, on Flickr

 

[MartinQ]

Avebury avenue (or whats left of it) in the background a few years ago. Typical reaction to dad asking them to smile ...

 

[Fnaar]

With Gareth Thomas, who's just died RIP

 

[summerdays]

The one I have visited the most (though I can't put my hands on any of my photos), is Beaghmore, so here are are two photos borrowed from Facebook and Geograph

 

[classic33]

I've been to a few.

Carrowmore County Sligo

Carrowmore Neolithic monuments by braveheart1979, on Flickr

Carrowmore Neolithic monuments by braveheart1979, on Flickr


Carrowmore Neolithic monuments by braveheart1979, on Flickr

Carrowmore Neolithic monuments by braveheart1979, on Flickr
The Cairn on top of Knocknarea, Strandhill, Sligo

Knocknarea Co. Sligo by braveheart1979, on Flickr

Beltany Stone circle (just a few miles from my home)

Beltany stone circle by braveheart1979, on Flickr

Beltany Stone Circle by braveheart1979, on Flickr

Newgrange
Newgrange by braveheart1979, on Flickr
Newgrange by braveheart1979, on Flickr

And weirdly I have a love of old ruined churches and graveyards

Killaspugbrone Church, Strandhill Co. Sligo by braveheart1979, on Flickr

Been inside Newgrange a few years ago now. As for old graveyards, what's wrong with them? A fair few of the Irish ones are now online, whilst one or two British ones have webcams!!

 

[growingvegetables]

And weirdly I have a love of old ruined churches and graveyards

Nothing weird about that!


Hmm -or maybe we're both weird?

Anyways - Glendalough. Burial place for four Coptic monks from Egypt, hence the distinctively different monastic traditions in the Celtic churches; very different from the Roman church. Sad that it's not acknowledged .

But ..........that wee snippet of hidden history makes a special place even more extraordinary.

 

[tyred]

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