Draconis
Favourite Ancient Site: The Bridestones
Your Location: Congleton, Cheshire
Your Occupation: retired
Your Interests: archaeological photography
Favourite Ancient Site: The Bridestones
Your Location: Congleton, Cheshire
Your Occupation: retired
Your Interests: archaeological photography
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Anglesey (Sir Ynys Mon)
Holyhead Mountain
Added Jan 16 2017 by Draconis
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Like the Great Orme in Llandudno, Holyhead Mountain is connected with Gogarth,...
Art
Beasts watercolour by William Blake
Added Mar 16 2016 by Draconis
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Who or what the side walls at Five Wells depict is a matter of conjecture....
Bridestones backstone (Draconis)
Added Feb 16 2016 by Draconis
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The backstone of the chamber is what Terence Meaden would call the Goddess...
Bridestones dragon head generic (Draconis)
Added Feb 16 2016 by Draconis
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This dragonhead stone, found in a Congleton garden alongside the the others I...
Bridestones dragonhead (Draconis)
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By the middle of the 1700's the huge long-barrow, greater than the West Kennet...
Bridestones dragonhead (Draconis)
Added Feb 16 2016 by Draconis
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Another dragonhead found in a private garden.
Known to have originated at the...
Bridestones Dragonhead profile (Draconis)s
Added Feb 16 2016 by Draconis
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Some drawings based on the foregoing photos to illustrate in simplified form...
Bridestones north wall slab tail (Draconis)
Added Feb 16 2016 by Draconis
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The high, abrupt tail of the north sidewall is markedly similar to the...
Bridestones serpent head (Draconis)
Added Feb 16 2016 by Draconis
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This smiling serpent head belongs with the dragon heads I have posted on this...
Engine Vein. Alderley Edge Copper Mines (Draconis)
Added Mar 01 2016 by Draconis
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Not Engine Vein but Saddlebole, an entrance which the Nat. Trust seems to...
Engine Vein. Alderley Edge Copper Mines (Draconis)
Added Mar 01 2016 by Draconis
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At the top of the long climb out of Alderley the road levels by a lay-by, from...
Engine Vein. Alderley Edge Copper Mines (Draconis)
Added Mar 01 2016 by Draconis
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At Stormy Point these two rock formations stand out for the curious carvings...
Engine Vein. Alderley Edge Copper Mines (Draconis)
Added Mar 01 2016 by Draconis
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Also at Stormy Point are these two stones, which could quite easily represent...
Jaws of the Dragon (Draconis)
Added Feb 16 2016 by Draconis
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The jaws of the Dragon. You can just about discern the zigzag line of its...
Nine Ladies (Draconis)
Added Feb 20 2016 by Draconis
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I invite you to compare the profile of this stone with that of the Dragon of...
The Bridestones (Cheshire) (Draconis)
Added Feb 16 2016 by Draconis
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Standing at the front right corner I find myself looking into the...
The Bridestones (Cheshire) (Draconis)
Added Feb 16 2016 by Draconis
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Found lurking atop a garden wall in Congleton this splendid ram is known to...
The Bridestones (Cheshire) (Draconis)
Added Feb 16 2016 by Draconis
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If you could see the equinoctial sunrise from the stones, a view entirely...
The Bridestones (Cheshire) (Draconis)
Added Feb 16 2016 by Draconis
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This photo will challenge many but if you look closely at this portal stone...
The Bridestones Dragon (Draconis)
Added Feb 16 2016 by Draconis
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In rl Dixon's excellent composite shot of the outer side of the south wall of...
The Bridestones north wall (Draconis)
Added Feb 16 2016 by Draconis
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Difficult to photograph for the close tangle of rhododendrons, this...
The eye of the Bridestones Dragon (Draconis)
Added Feb 16 2016 by Draconis
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It was this carving which first made me aware there is a whole lot more to the...
The portal stone figure close up. (Draconis)
Added Feb 16 2016 by Draconis
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This full-length figure of indeterminate gender looks onto the forecourt from...
Wormhill, Derbyshire
Added Feb 17 2016 by Draconis
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My drawing reduces my photo to essentials, in the hope viewers will be able to...
Wormhill, Derbyshire
Added Feb 17 2016 by Draconis
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This photo, taken from the roadside, shows the Wormhill Dragon with its...
Wormhill, Derbyshire
Added Feb 17 2016 by Draconis
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Reducing my previous drawing even further shows the simple, generic shape of...
Cheshire
Druidical Circle
Added Mar 01 2016 by Draconis
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The Druids Circle is of uncertain origin, perhaps a Victorian construction,...
The Bridestones (Cheshire)
Added Mar 08 2016 by Draconis
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Looking at the portal stones from the roadside in afternoon sunlight. The...
Derbyshire
Five Wells
Added Mar 16 2016 by Draconis
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Two portal stones are the remnants of a west-facing chamber built back to back...
Five Wells
Added Mar 16 2016 by Draconis
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The south-east corner portal stone of the present chamber. I imagine many will...
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