Northern Earth 182, Winter 2025, is out now

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In this issue: Blind John Brown, a forgotten Victorian geomancer, Polissoir – a phenomenological report from Dorset’s Valley of the Stones, Fairport Convention and liminal topographies of the Winchester Downs, New Troy and the Sandridge Geoglyph, the Bleasdale–Round Loaf alignment in Lancashire and lots more...

Contents:

• The Twelve Stations – Blind John Brown: Mark Valentine on a forgotten Victorian prophet and geomancer


• Polissoir – Catherine Roberts provides a phenomenological report from Dorset’s Valley of the Stones


• ‘To rouse the spirit of the earth’: Simon Crook on Fairport Convention and liminal topographies of the Winchester Downs


• Hiding in plain sight: N and S letter reversals (2): Greg Huber continues his study of reversed letters and connects them to the Sator Square


• New Troy and the Sandridge Geoglyph: Tony Rodway introduces his discoveries in the Hertfordshire landscape


• Walking the line: Ken Rigby describes his personal encounter with a Bleasdale–Round Loaf alignment in Lancashire


• The NE interview: We discuss Peter Ross’s new book Upon a White Horse


• The Dodman: Whose remains? NE’s editor finds a mysterious, perhaps saintly shrine

…plus archaeology and folklore news, book reviews and more.
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