Amy Tryphena
@uncannykernow.bsky.social
Cornish Writer • Teller of Cornish tales , nature writer and megalith obsessive • Dendrophile, Ancient Stone Botherer & Haunter of the Woods 〓〓 https://uncannycornwall.com https://linktr.ee/AmyTryphena https://bipolarroughguide.com
One of Cornwall's most important stone circles, still in use ceremonially today. Personally I always feel nauseous and a little dizzy inside it.
Dan Herbert@danherb10.bsky.social · 2mo agoBeen a while since I posted anything for #StandingStoneSunday, bit remiss of me. To make amends here a slice of Boscawen-un
Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
The bonfire of the humanities
150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences
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Piskey Hall, fogou. Not technically a standing stone, the Cornish fogou stands in a category all of its own. #Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday #prehistoric #megalithic #ancientsitesunday #sundaystonework @megalithic.bsky.social
Whatever you believe about crop circles, there's no doubt they bring people joy. (except the farmer 🫤) A sort of third space where you'll meet a diverse range of wonderful, interesting people.
For #StandingStoneSunday #Stunday... Another view of the larger cross pillar at Reask monastic site, Dingle, Kerry, Ireland Image: 2018 #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #EarlyChristian #Photography #Infrared #Monochrome #PhotographersOfBluesky #Art #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono
A whopper for #StandingStoneSunday 😮 - of all the stone rows of Dartmoor, Drizzle Combe has some of the largest terminal stones This stone is set at right angles to the row, with a prominent lug (head? Face?) at the top 🤔 An incredible Late Neo/Bronze Age complex 🤩 📷 My own, last week
We cross the threshold of a stone circle and are engulfed by a sense of ongoing ritual. Engulfed by a sense of intimate lithic conversations, power dynamics unfolding across slow centuries. The Long Neolithic is palpable. The Long Neolithic is living. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
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Exploring Duloe Stone Circle: A Journey Through Time
Duloe stone circle is thought to date from the early to middle bronze age – approximately 4000 years ago – around 2000 years BCE. Like all Kernow’s megalithic monuments, it is still an alluring eni…
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Officially started my dissertation yesterday. Get this done, then I'll be the first person in my family to earn a degree. Just in time to watch the knowledge economy swallowed up by A.I. Still, a symbolic victory over adversity worth celebrating.
youtu.be/ogoiKcXSk0Y?... I had the privilege of visiting this beauty yesterday.
Crop Circle | Jack's Castle Plantation, Nr Alfred's Tower, Somerset | Reported 8th May 2026
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MAY DAY marks the Celtic festival of Beltane; half way between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. It is a time when the veil between our world and the shadow world is extremely thin and exactly half way to Halloween🎨Rheam, Fairy woods, 1903 #GothicSpring
Celebrating May Day: Hawthorn and Its Traditions #Folklore #Cornwall #Kernow #FolkyFriday As a seasonal signpost, the hawthorn announces spring with its blossom and greets autumn with its rusty red haws. Blossoming around May Day as the land quickens with life, the Hawthorn is celebrated...
Celebrating May Day: Hawthorn and Its Traditions
As a seasonal signpost, the hawthorn announces spring with its blossom and greets autumn with its rusty red haws. Blossoming around May Day as the land quickens with life, the Hawthorn is celebrated in the folk customs of the British Isles for marking the birth of summer and the death of winter.
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Carn Brea as seen from Carn Marth. You can also see St Agnes Beacon and Rough Tor from here. #cornwall
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Exploring the Mystical History of Merry Maidens
The Merry Maidens, one of Penwith’s four remaining stone circles, are a fine example of a Cornish megalithic monument. A perfect seventy-eight-foot circle, consisting of nineteen granite stones of …
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Our Land Screening on Tue 9th June, Verdant Taproom, Penryn. OUR LAND takes us to the heart of the ‘Right to Roam’ movement as it embarks on a provocative trail of mass trespass, campaigning and education www.tickettailor.com/events/verda...
Yesterday's Kernow/Cornwall: Excerpts From 1934 ‘The Story of Cornwall’ by A.K.Hamilton Jenkin rysrudh.uk/cornwall-exc...
Yesterday’s Cornwall
Excerpts From 1934: ‘The Story of Cornwall’ by A.K.Hamilton Jenkin History before books were written The Tamar valley is quite narrow here, but a few miles farther down it widens out, …
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I've seen my first May blossom of the year - a welcome symbol of hope and sign to start spring sowing in the veg patch (excuse the rubbish pic). "Mark the fair blooming of the Hawthorn Tree, Who, finely clothed in a robe of white, Fills the wanton eye with May’s delight." Chaucer.
Fibonacci sequence in the illustrious fern, guardian of the forest floor.
Quite the boggy, marshy, hardy heather root and tussocky grass strewn hike to Tod Crag yesterday. In northern Britain, 'cup and ring mark' rock art falls within the 4000-1500 BC period. Definitely a venerable contender for #WeekOForOld #AlphabetChallenge #Northumberland #archaeosky
Pawton Quoit, Cornwall. Also known as a cromlech or portal dolmen. One of my favourite megaliths in Cornwall. #standingstonesunday @megalithic.bsky.social
In Cornwall there is understood to be multiple varieties of the fairy family: The Small People The Spriggan Piskies The Bucca The Knockers The Brownies #folkyfriday #folklore #Cornwall
Pawton Quoit: A Stone Age Enigma in Cornwall #megalithicmonday #dolmen #prehistory #neolithic #cornwall Pawton Quoit is a magnificent portal dolmen built by Cornwall’s stone age inhabitants. The imposing megalith sits, mostly intact, atop a ridge overlooking a steep valley.
Pawton Quoit: A Stone Age Enigma in Cornwall
Pawton Quoit is a magnificent portal dolmen built by Cornwall’s stone age inhabitants. The imposing megalith sits, mostly intact, atop a ridge overlooking a steep valley. The enormous capstone, which juts out incongruously against the landscape, must weigh at least 15 tonne, and perches on just three points of the supporting upright stones.
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