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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · 14h

I’m on the list several times… so what next…. Filing a claim?

chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · 4d

The magnificent Buttern Hill cist, part of a Bronze Age cemetery across the hillside, with magnificent views to Bronn Wennili (Cornwall’s highest point). #Cornwall #BodminMoor #StandingStoneSunday

Three narrow granite slabs, lying lengthways, form a rectangle, while a large standing stone rests halfway across it like a coffin lid poised on the lip of the tomb. Small chunks of granite surround the cist forming a much denuded mound. Across in the distance on a dry, brown and treeless horizon is a looming grey ridge, Bronn Wennili (I won’t say it’s English name) - the Hill of swallows it translates too, although perhaps its other Cornish name Bronn Ewhella (highest hill) seems more accurate as I never glimpse swallows there. The sky is filled with Constable like clouds and sun falls on land between the ridge but not on the cist or hill.

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · 11d

The Dol de Bretagne, which, legend has it, appeared in the height of a battle where two brothers met and fought, when it rose up between and separated them. There does seem to have been a battle near here in 560 CE between father and son. #StandingStoneSunday #Folklore #Bretagne #Breizh #Brittany

A large 9 metre high menhir dominates a mown grassy field. The sky is a cloudless blue with some hints of vapour trails, echoed by desire lines in the grass leading up to the menhir. The only other features are a small fence in the background and a few trees and hedges on the skyline.

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · 12d

My father told me in theory you could (I think if stood on the hills behind) but I certainly never have been able to.

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · 12d

Looked at the map and online photos again and yes Brean Down is the ridge. Was more interested in picking out Pen y Fan et al in the 80 mile distance at the time. Used to go to Fairbourne/Barmouth and look out for Eire which is closer by some 20-30 miles but never see it.

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · 14d

I had this idea it was closer to Barry, not sure where that came from!

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah another poster mentioned Flat helm and steep holm, which looking at the map looks far more likely

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · 15d

Not often I get to post #HillFortsWednesday but with an EV need a charge what better excuse to nip up Brent Knoll, to walk the ramparts and see across to Bannau Brycheiniog / Brecon Beacons 79 miles away on a gorgeous early autumn day.

An old farm track/footpath staggers between a rustic farm shed and small pumpkin patch. A straw coloured Brent Knoll looms over the background , crowned with a mohican of trees.

A large grassy ridge winds away to the left, whil to the right the land drops away revealing a glimpse of the sea and the Quantocks.

A narrow desire like snakes its way along a grassy ridge to a beacon stone on a small platform on the horizon. The sky is bleached white by the sun and silver clouds clatter over like cars edging along a motorway traffic jam

The view out to the Bristol Channel which is a cross cross of rhomboid fields, one filled by a water like panels. A large ridge looms in the channel (Bardsey island??) while Wales is a grey ghost on the Horizon, but if you zoom in the centre you can just about make out Bannau Brycheiniog/Brecon Beacons.

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · 18d

I did raise my eyebrows when I typed it in, and I was thinking where is CADW in all this? As explained EH are not popular in Cornwall, and it smacked a little bit of some English lord gifting it back to his home country. There are definitely similar manors here with similar attitudes to us locals.

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · 18d

‘with the cooperation of Preseli Pembrokeshire District Council, as part of the celebrations marking the silver jubilee of the cystic fibrosis research trust.’ Above it is the same (I’m assuming) in Welsh. Here in SE Cornwall any English Heritage signs are regularly painted over with Cornish flags.

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · 18d

‘Helicopter on 6th April 1989. The bluestones were donated by the Lord of the manor of Mynachlogddu to English Heritage, one to be displayed at Stonehenge, the other to be erected here to indicate the place of origin. In May and June 1989 the other bluestone was carried from here to Stonehenge 2/3

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · 18d

The photo was taken by myself on April 2016, in Mynachlogddu, I don’t remember taking it, but I do remember visiting Gors Fawr the same day. I can read the sign which I was paraphrasing it says ‘The pillar of bluestone is one of two brought down from the crest of Carnmenyn by an RAF Chinook 1/2

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · 18d

When is a standing stone not an ancient standing stone? When English Heritage use it to denote the place of origin of the bluestones of Stonehenge in the Preseli mountains! Although this isn’t on top of Carn Menyn or Carn Goeddog even more confusingly. But it is a nice #StandingStoneSunday

A tall, impressively ancient looking menhir stands on flat moorland while hills rise behind it on the horizon. Below a plaque in both English and Welsh describes it of being one of two blue stones taken from Carn Menyn, (the other being at Stonehenge) to indicate its place of origin.

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · 21d

Motorway signs ah, that will be down to the incomparable Margaret Calvert of course: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Way to go: the woman who invented Britain’s road signs

In the 1960s, Margaret Calvert designed an entirely new signage system for the UK’s roads. Fifty years on, she explains how she did ‘possibly the biggest graphic design job ever’ – and why she’s still...

www.theguardian.com

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · 25d

Not an ancient #StandingStoneSunday but an old gatepost on a footpath that passes one of Bodmin Moor’s remotest farms (which I believe is occasionally inhabited and also not for sale) and not on anything remotely resembling a road or semi-paved track. #Cornwall #BodminMoor

A squat rectangular lichen encrusted stone sits on the edge of a small farm holding. Behind trees in full leaf surround a shuttered up building, constructed from granite with a slate roof and slate clad upper floor, typical of many Cornish dwellings in this part of the world.

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · 27d

On the other hand it’s been great for commas, I have never seen so many. Silver washed fritillaries too had a strong one. Ringlets in the fields behind me emerged in a small cloud in July

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · 27d

Third year doing the Golitha Falls transect, and definitely the best year, although numbers peaked higher in 2023, they were bolstered by meadow browns. Poor year for meadow browns, but much better diversity. And delighted to find a small marbled white colony just round the corner from my garden

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · Sep 1

A reminder here that there is always more nuance (and hope) to stale, endless Farage boosterism www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Are young women more left wing than men - and, if so, why?

A divide appears to be opening up between young women and young men in the way they vote and view the world.

www.bbc.co.uk

chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · Aug 31

The Pipers taken on the day after winter solstice sunrise in 2022 (wouldnt be able to get near them on the solstice itself) These are the two outliers, next to the Hurlers circles, Minions #Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday

Two tall menhirs,one reflecting itself in a pool of water, greet the morning sunrise. The sun is both coming up from behind Caradon hill and emerging from the top of the right hand stone. A few clouds are scattered over an otherwise pallid sky, just beginning to bruise orange.

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · Aug 29

I appreciate this but you have taken my money and refuse to give me a date. I do not mind if you say we have a 6-8 week wait, and your install is complicated (it really isn’t)z. So you are stopping me going elsewhere. Give me a date or return my money

chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · Aug 29

@octopus.energy hey - I paid for an EV charger over a week ago and you are refusing to give me an installation date . Customer service said you’d get back this week with a date but haven’t. Either give me money back or give me date (I don’t mind long waiting lists). #PoorCustonerService

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · Aug 24

The Christianised menhir of Brignogan Plage, always a wonder. Lovely to see new interpretation boards nearby but they were rather blighted by the AI ‘photos’ of menhirs and dolmens on them. Doesn’t Brittany have enough monuments to use real photos? #StandingStoneSunday #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh

The 8 metre tall menhir stopped by cross against a blue sky with a single small cloud. It’s perched behind a natural boulder where what must be a natural hollow is currently (August 2025) filled by grass

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · Aug 19

At the end (or beginning) of Erdeven’s wonderful megalithic walking trail, amongst some much more well known sites is the Dolmen de Botlann, nestled in a small housing estate. #TombTuesday #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh #UrbanPrehistory

A small dolmen, comprised of three grave stone sized support stones and a picnic table sized capstone, sits on an arid piece of grass in a small housing estate. If it wasn’t registered it could almost be mistaken for one of those faux garden ornament dolmens the Bretons and Cornish like to construct.

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · Aug 17

Spotted this vestal moth, lurking in the grass of a freshly cut meadow today in noonday sun. A bit of a beauty. #Moths #MothsMatter #TeamMoth #Cornwall

A triangular tent shaped moth in straw and grass, with wings the colour of old paper, except for a broad raspberry ripple pink stripe running across like an upturned chevron.

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chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social · Aug 17

For #StandingStoneSunday it’s time to revisit the striking quartz stones of Duloe. Since its recent acquisition by Cornwall Heritage Trust, the surrounding grass is now uncut, and the hedge behind removed, allowing the circle to breathe and, by letting wildlife back, giving it atmosphere. #Cornwall

Six white standing stones and one recumbent stone stand in a rough circle like shape on a small patch of mown grass. Behind the grass grows long letting yarrow, knapweed and thistles feed the insect population. You can just about make out the lines crisscrossing the longer grass, under a cloudless blue sky as a soft orange glow bruises the horizon at sunset

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