The builders' marks
TIL about Japanese Dogū ceramic figures. Roughly same age as the sarsens of #Stonehenge. And Jōmon flame pottery, about the same age as the beginning of Stonehenge.
Via an exhibition at the Stonehenge visitor centre comparing British and Japanese Neolithic.
Recently, tenacious Brian John, researched this bluestone found on a beach by Phil Holden, a photographer, in Mumbles, near Swansea, South Wales. It is just one of several that make up a breadcrumb trail of the ice floes from the west of Wales, North Wales, even Scotland. Which, probably, reached as far or even further than the nascent site of Stonehenge.
So much graffiti. Possibly, because some stones may be softer, easier to carve.
A museum in Germany is making a decent, life-sized, model of #Stonehenge Trilithon Two. Found via @Clonehenge. An opportunity for me to show off my models. In rust for detail and damp winter garb for colour.
Often a case for pareidolia. The oval shape on the reverse of one of the uprights Stone 52 in Trilithon One is many things to many people.
Here are close ups without skins of colour, mould, lichen, most to get in the way.
At five foot two (158cm) for the Trilithon Two and Four and 5½ feet (167cm) for the tallest stone S56. It’s tall! And wide 26 feet circle, 30 foot including the fallen sarsens. You’re going to need a big back yard.
I realised I hadn’t good visual of the different Stonehenge model scales, up to 6th scale. Here it is, with the diameters of the outer circle and the mean height (trilithon two and four). It’s visualised in rusty iron, but all finishes will be available, including real life skins.
