[Stones] Avebury Meet

[Ric]

great!
   
  i am not a sculptor and have zero knowledge of working stone, but that mouth certainly looks sculpted to me ... i believe, anyway, that the Avebury stones were selected for their suggestive character - so that you can stare into them and see things - like staring into cloud formations - or parallel to the story of the 'Illustrated Man' by Ray Bradbury, perhaps - ?
   
  http://www.vintagepbks.com/images/sf/sfmisc/bantam_991.jpg
   
  thanks Chris, Terry & Pete for the pics!
   
  ric
  

Chris Tweed <chris at henge.org.uk> wrote:
  Just to let you know that Terry sent a message to the list, 
unfortunately containing a couple of rather large jpgs. The mail 
server intercepted the posting and I offered to publish the photos 
(temporarily) on a very simple web page to let you all take a look.

The page can be found here :-

http://www.prehistoric.org.uk/general/terry.html


and Terry wrote the following accompanying text :-


Dear Thelma and others,
Here are two pictures of Stone 206 taken on a sunny day two months 
ago. The
fully carved head on this stone faces the Imbolc sunrise.
Notice on the first one the exquisitely carved spiralling horn. The 
second
picture shows the carved mouth and chin in close up.
Regarding the good carving on the Cove stone, facing the midwinter 
sunset I
do not have a digital photo in sunshine to hand. Will post it another 
day
when I get one. The success of some of the pictures depends on the 
sun and
shadows being optimum, and this is one of them. Terry.

Chris Tweed
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