June 27, 1998
Lordenshaws and Lady's Well.
After the Newcastle conference on Shamanism, organized by Charlotte Hardman, a number of participants made a trip to see cup-and-ring marks at Lordenshaws, in Northumbria. These images are from what we saw. You cannot, alas, hear the larks that were singing, behind the clouds, as we walked over the moor.
Altar-stone?
Offering-cups?
Well, maybe...
Or something else entirely..?
A cleft ground in the rock, continuing over the edge
of this curving outcrop and steeply down to where vegetation begins.
There are cup-marks beside it, and at its ends.
A lone hawthorn tree on the grouse moor.
Enjoying the clear water of the Lady's
Well. (I'm not in this picture, that's another conference participant
dipping her hands into the dark-but-sparkling water. I was behind
the (rather inadequate) camera...)
You can enlarge this image. Click on it, right-click, double-click, whatever. It does work, eventually.
We had lunch nearby, at a local pub. No pictures though!
Sorry.
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