room to swing an axe ...
.... on a roundabout!
I went in search of swings and roundabouts, so that I could get my final shot of "117 Pictures".
No swings ... but a jolly interesting roundabout!
There is a huge Bronze Age axe rising from a barrow, which is part of the public art associated with the adjacent housing development in Old Sarum. Before building work started Wessex Archaeology had excavated the site of the housing estate. One of the finds was a barrow and this provided the inspiration for the artists Angela Cockayne and Robert Fearns.
When viewed from the east as it is here, the Iron Age and Norman monuments at Old Sarum provide the backdrop. From this side you can also see on the shaft of the axe the coordinates of the roundabout. This is a reference to landscape, monument, and mapping. Near to the site an iron cannon was sunk into the ground as a survey baseline for the 18th century trigonometric survey of Britain.
(Thank you to Wessex Archaeology for the info!)
The last shot of my 117 Pictures in 2017 ... #94. Swings and Roundabouts
Sony A7R II
Minolta 100-200mm lens
Explored ... thank you!
room to swing an axe ...
.... on a roundabout!
I went in search of swings and roundabouts, so that I could get my final shot of "117 Pictures".
No swings ... but a jolly interesting roundabout!
There is a huge Bronze Age axe rising from a barrow, which is part of the public art associated with the adjacent housing development in Old Sarum. Before building work started Wessex Archaeology had excavated the site of the housing estate. One of the finds was a barrow and this provided the inspiration for the artists Angela Cockayne and Robert Fearns.
When viewed from the east as it is here, the Iron Age and Norman monuments at Old Sarum provide the backdrop. From this side you can also see on the shaft of the axe the coordinates of the roundabout. This is a reference to landscape, monument, and mapping. Near to the site an iron cannon was sunk into the ground as a survey baseline for the 18th century trigonometric survey of Britain.
(Thank you to Wessex Archaeology for the info!)
The last shot of my 117 Pictures in 2017 ... #94. Swings and Roundabouts
Sony A7R II
Minolta 100-200mm lens
Explored ... thank you!