Northern Earth 113 Out Now
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EventsIn this issue: The Unmaking of the English Landscape.A reminder of how development, consumer society and changing attitudes to the farming economy are affecting our heritage. Bill Bryson's comments on the historical landscape, and NE's comments on how supporting local food preserves such landscapes
Mike Haigh‘s Archaeology Round-up.
Mike looks at recent archaeological reports featuring the ritual landscape around the Ring of Brodgar, more recent horse rituals in the rural industry of the Yorkshire Dales, and a mystical statue of the Virgin Mary from Tintern Abbey.
A Look at a Landscape.
Stuart McHardy seeks, through placenames and topology, for the sacred feminine in the Scottish landscape, with a gazetteer of the kind of place-names that one should be looking for when seeking places with a relationship to the goddess.
A Strange Tale of Armley Jail.
A strange and true tale of a tragic execution at this Leeds prison.
Ley Hunters: The Next Generation, Pt.
John Hill contributed his first article on new approaches to finding and confirming alignments in NE112. Here he adds to his remarks on how new technology can help place alignment research within the academic arena, not part of the New Age or 'lunatic fringe'.
Ley Hunters: Discursions from Pt. 1.
Points arising from John Hill’s earlier piece
Tomnahurich, the Fairy Hill of Inverness.
Christine Rhone muses on a landscape of lore, vision and prophecy, on a small hill in the Highlands
Having Your Say.
A lively postbag addresses issues from wax cones and crystal skulls to buxom hills and Nessie
All About Nosh.
Recent news has surfaced about the role of foodstuffs in the development of prehistoric life and culture formation - vegetarians come out of it rather well!
Reviews.
NE’s Alternate Realities Competition.
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