Pete Herring
@peteherring.bsky.social
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Cornish and European landscape archaeologist and historian
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Grey Mare sleeping in 2020.
East Moor, #Cornwall.
Goodaver stone circle then still hidden behind the skylined conifers.
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Reminded by FB of my patience being tested in 2021. A nearly finished drawing of the west end of York Minster as seen from the south transept parapet walkway.

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A pencil being used to complete a drawing of a medieval traceried window. Flying buttresses and a leader roof have already been finished. Work in progress on a drawing of a cathedral towers and flying buttresses.
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Studies of people lifting & carrying sacks plus a couple of sack hoists informed the final illustration.

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Pencil drawing of a man lifting a sack of coal from the back of a lorry. Based on a photograph from the 1970s. Pencil and watercolour sketches of men carrying sacks of coal. Pencil drawings of 19th century sack hoist machines. Lifting platforms were lifted via chains operated by hand cranks. Part of a pencil cutaway drawing showing railway wagons unloading over open cells where sacks are filled and then carried to horse drawn wagons and carts.
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No. There may still be work to do?
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The Cornwall Archaeological Society now has a Bluesky account.
@cornwallarch.bsky.social
It will include postings about the ongoing excavations at Castilly Henge, and all other matters Cornish and archaeological that are of interest.
Please consider following.
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Surviving setts of the 19th century Liskeard and Caradon Railway near Gonamena.
First horses and then steam engines pulled wagons up to Bodmin Moor between these stone hedges.
To take coal for mine engines and collect ores and granite blocks from mines and quarries.
#Cornwall
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'Mapledurham Mill' near Reading photographed by William Tylar around 1896.

A Pressphotoman piece on his photographic tour along the River Thames featured in a newly-discovered set of large prints.

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Not a blurred photo, just a blurred sky; quite common in #Cornwall.
Squall crossing Veryan Bay and about to consume the mighty Dodman.
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Are your sheep always turning up late for work? Are they taking too long on their lunch break or simply struggling to get through the workload? Are they always just mucking about?

Then you need some
An old book titled Intensive Sheep Management.
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The basaltic shoreline of Co Antrim, northern Ireland
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This stone has been perched on a moorstone on the slopes of Kilmar for a very long time: observe the erosion shadow beneath it.
It is also a beautiful eye-catcher in a place with many other boulders.
Ravens stand on it, and rabbits gather here too, as can be seen. Perhaps people did too?
#Cornwall
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A late Victorian hedge brought to an elegant point on a granite post, sadly now snapped.
Blacktor, Fawymore (Bodmin Moor), #Cornwall
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Beautifully written obituary, and a marvellous portrait by Chris Redgrave.
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‘London was in his veins’: Gillian Darley pays tribute to the erudition, wit and open-mindedness of the architectural historian Andrew Saint, who has died at the age of 78.
‘London was in his veins’: Andrew Saint (1946–2025)
Gillian Darley remembers an architectural historian of great wit and erudition who was always keen to share his enthusiasms, which included a deep love of the capital
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This sky is screeching.
Scores of swifts.
Tiny black specks.
#Cornwall
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A sun-dappled seal petroglyph in the Fulford Harbour estuary on Salt Spring Island, Canada.
Made by Saanich people.
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At the Saturday Market, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, Canada
June 2025
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The Woolwich Rotunda: From waltzes to wargames by @emilyvcole.bsky.social,‬ Sarah Newsome, and Verena McCaig is now available in Historic England's Informed Conservation series. This book highlights the building's innovation, placing the Rotunda in its historical context. bit.ly/HERotunda
Book cover image of The Woolwich Rotunda above Historic England and LUP logos in white. To the right is a larger image of the image on the book cover which features a drawing of the Woolwich Rotunda with several men in military dress, a cannon, and a tree in the foreground. The text above this image reads 'Tells the story of a remarkable building, the Woolwich Rotunda, and its unique landscape.'
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Folding of waves, mountains and clouds on the evening ferry back to Salt Spring Island from Crofton.
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Starlings have displaced purple martins from their natural nesting places so people build nest boxes for them, as here, on the old ferry terminal at Vesuvius Bay, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.
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Stone clearance heap in a colonialist's 1870s orchard on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.
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A study in jetties (overhanging upper floors) and window sills used for displaying goods, especially butchers meat, in Shambles, York.

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Pencil drawing of a quiet, narrow street lined with medieval and later buildings. Several buildings have overhanging upper floors.
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Back from visiting parents in Canada.
A colonial boundary style still in use on Salt Spring Island. Meadow against woodland, separated by a split-cedar fence lifted off the ground by stones and held in place by weight and gravity.
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Richard Tongue was committed to recording megaliths (large stones that form historic monuments). Often located in sites not easily accessed, he wanted to increase awareness of those who wouldn't be able to visit them & the importance of recognising the need for preservation & protection.
A painting of the Chamber Tomb of Pentre Ifan near Newport A painting the Tolmen of Constantine, Cornwall.
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Bridge across the Bedalder.
From Great Care to Hard Head.
And from Cardinham parish to Warleggan.
It was already there in 1748 when mapped by Thomas Martyn.
And that great white cone is a lot later: the sky tip of the Glynn Valley Clayworks.