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The original stone may have been a megalithic marker. The oldest depictions show a larger stone and site it at a different place to that of the cage protected current lithic marker. The outdoor rural court at the larger Birlay Stone under the shade of the Birley Tree first found Marion Lillie who was locally called either the Rigwoodie, or the Ringwoody Witch not guilty. The Rigwoody Witch was later accused again, the Rigwoody attached to her name and label of witch is from the Scots Rigwoody meaning thin, or bony. Her second recorded trial has her sent to further courts with a guilty verdict to present to them. Some suppose that she would have been found guilty there and put to death as a witch. Before the imperfect legal process was concluded Marion died and was buried in Spott Church grounds showing she was not convicted at the time of her demise.
Whether the either the process of accusation and defence were contributing factors in Marion’s death, or not the records are not present to say, yet there is a record, “Many witches burnt on Spott Loan,” this follows Marion’s death and some believe that these many were 13, maybe a number not recorded, as 13 are considered by some an ideal number for a coven and 13 has several wicked and even evil connotations for some. The records and several authors comments are visible through the links below. Some record Marion and link her to a Marion Lillie and some record her as the last witch burned in Scotland. We will never have that perspective that ran throughout the times when Europeans thought Witches were to be discovered, tortured and put to death. That perspective that allowed many to dispose of often elderly women who some saw as hanging on to what they waited too long for. Through the death of the falsely accused person others could be rid of the living obstacle by convicting them and killing them as a witch.
Before society could allow for people differing from ‘the norm’ there were many targets to haul before what passed for justice. Those times for some are not that far away and we can at times act like such victimisation is still completely acceptable. Every culture has people at risk as we seem to realise that high ideals are for art, culture and dreams and that low acceptance is still fuelling violence and inherited intolerance is still simmering ready to burn any that happen to be seen as Witch, whatever it meant back then and for whatever it means today. Witch is a word we say, for some it is used as an insult and a slander. Witches past and present are the ones victimised and victorious in reclaiming our rights to be different and to accepted, to be in need as we all are of the harmony and the balance that comes through tolerance. Witch is just one word that people have used to label and dehumanise another person to such extreme that a Witch being murdered was seen a blessing.
The links below give the history better than I have above.
This was part of a journey to other sites. Some are listed below.
© PHH Sykes 2022
phhsykes@gmail.com
The Witches Stone. Spott Community Association
www.spottvillage.org.uk/witches-stone-2/
Witches' Stone, Spott
canmore.org.uk/site/57667/witches-stone-spott
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6453/witches_stone.html
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8239
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.johngraycentre.org/collections/getrecord/ELHER_MEL1560/
Spott Church
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
canmore.org.uk/site/57622/easter-broomhouse
Also The Modern Antiquarian and The Megalithic Portal
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1492/
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?x=368000&y=676600
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1494/pencraig_hill_stan...
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Mace-head or naturally holed nodule, roughly polished. From the Imperial College Sports Ground site, London.
Bartholomäus Spranger, Antwerpen 1546 - Prag 1611
Herkules und Omphale - Herakles and Omphale (ca. 1585)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien
In an opulent bedroom, the lithe Omphale, whom Hercules has been condemned to serve by the Delphic oracle, stands naked with her back to the viewer holding his club over her shoulder like a baseball player awaiting the next pitch. Hercules sits to the left wearing a feminine pink frock; he’s handling spinning implements, performing an activity ordinarily reserved for women.
Source: The New York Times
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Der flämische Maler ging nach der Ausbildung in seiner Heimatstadt Antwerpen nach Frankreich und dann nach Italien, wo er erst für Alessandro Farnese und dann als päpstlicher Maler für Pius V. tätig war. Nach dem Tod des Papstes wechselte er nach Wien an den Hof Kaiser Maximilians II und nach dessen Tod an den Hof Kaiser Rudolf II. in Prag. Als Kammermaler erhielt nicht nur vom Hof sondern auch von einflussreichen Persönlichkeiten Aufträge, gehörte zu den angesehensten Malern seiner Zeit und wurde 1595 in den Adelsstand erhoben. Sein Werk im manieristischen Stil umfasst mythologische und allegorische Bilder, oft mit erotisch anmutende Szenen, die dem Geschmack Kaiser Rudolfs II. sehr entgegenkamen.
This polished axe fragment has be reused as a core to make new tools. From the RMC land site, London.
ZOEY ... is a petite, 2 year old SEAL POINT SIAMESE. She is spayed and has her claws. Zoey has a lean and lithe figure, weighing in at only 5.5 lbs. She was left at a local Chicago animal shelter by a 'non-cat' guy who had gotten her from his girlfriend and he never liked the cat. Despite this, Zoey is extremely affectionate and she is looking for someone to love her. She has not been love the love and attention that she needs, and she is seeking a forever family that wants a sweet Siamese girl who will participate in their life. She loves hanging out in high places where she can survey all safely but will joyfully come down to greet her foster family. Zoey is scared of dogs but could accept another cat with slow and careful introductions. After her traumatic experience at the shelter, Zoey would do best with a quiet household that either has calm children or only adults. ADOPTION FEE $175. FOSTERED IN OAK PARK, IL.
Heavily burnt axe or chisel and chisel arrowhead from the Imperial College Sports Ground site, London.
KWK05
Excavated from site E2620 Ballybar Lower, N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme, Contract 4.
Illustrated by: Sara Nylund, 2008
Client: Kildare County Council
Funding body: National Roads Authority (NRA) with funds from the NDP and Transport 21
Mace-head or naturally holed nodule, roughly polished. From the Imperial College Sports Ground site, London.
For Minerva the Inconsolable Cat...& the art of being alone...together
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Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms
the fruits, that plums the grains, that curls seaweeds
filled your body with joy, and your luminous eyes
and your mouth that has the smile of the water.
A black yearning sun is braided into the strands
of your black mane, when you stretch your arms.
You play with the sun as with a little brook
and it leaves two dark pools in your eyes.
Girl lithe and tawny, nothing draws me toward you.
Everything bears me further away, as though you were noon.
You are the frenzied youth of the bee,
the drunkenness of the wave, the power of the wheat ear.
My sombre heart searches for you, nevertheless,
and I love your joyful body, your slender and flowing
voice.
Dark butterfly, sweet and definitive
like the wheat-filed and the sun, the poppy and the water.
~ Pabo Neruda, "Girl Lithe and Tawny"
These lacustrine lithic clasts are composed of carbonates. They have eroded from local outcrops of Cambrian and Ordovician sedimentary rocks.
Locality: Lake Champlain shoreline, small cove north of Lone Rock Point, northwestern side of the town of Burlington, northwestern Chittenden County, northwestern Vermont, USA (44° 29' 41.33" North latitude, 73° 14' 49.46" West longitude)
Fall back too close, you ain't even know me
Trust my brothers from way back from the nosebleeds
Christian Dior, spend it like they owe me
Gotta stay select, don't come around to me
Better come correct, different lives that we lead
I'm in that Nike tech and the bank with Louis V
But, he turns in to a loud crazy dog when facing a pack of teenagers - when he goes nuts so do the other two. Lithely about drove us all nuts at Aaron and Jenny's house.
Visitors to the Pequot Museum experienced a 17th c. military and civilian living-history encampment from the Pequot War (1636-1637) and King Philip’s War (1675-1677) periods. Including musket and bow shooting demonstrations; campfire cooking; lithic tool making; flint knapping demonstrations; period blacksmithing; and English militia drills.
Visitors also had the opportunity to listen to U.S. Army Major (Dr.) Jason Warren discuss his book, Connecticut Unscathed: Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 1675-1676. The book refocuses Connecticut’s role in the war and discusses how the colony achieved success by establishing a policy of moderation towards the Native groups living within its borders.
Supported in part by the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
I took this photo at the 2012 Texas Renaissance Festival in Todd's Mission, TX near Houston in October 2012. This was the 2nd weekend of the TRF and it featured a fairy theme,
The TRF is huge - you really need two days to take it in - there are stage acts, performers, jousts, belly and Brazilian dancers, chain mail models, and pirates everywhere you look - but the best part for me is just walking around people watching - it is incredible. There are so many people in elaborate costumes that my neck hurt from constantly looking in all directions - and they didn't mind me shooting them. What a blast - this is something I'm really looking forward too each year.
This polished axe fragment has been reused as a core to make more flint tools. From the Imperial Sports College Grounds site, London.
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'I like you too," she said. They no longer talked about love, only of like. Talk of love made them feel banished and of the dark ages. Like was beginning and new; like was when you grew wings that made you lithe and slightly interesting for a moment, love was when those wings kept growing, became thick and unseemly-- tarp-like -- and then smothered you; and wrapped you up, like a bodybag.
Though still, he wanted to say, 'I love you'. He was conditioned.
"
pictures people draw of their house when they are nine
a line for the sky a blue line for the sky
i am impressed with technology
i want to go to every panera bread mega store in the state of ohio on the same night and gather all of the bagels that they will throw away and climb on to the top of a five story building with a 35-85 lense and photograph the thousands of bagels they will throw away
and make a print of this and grind it to a pulp
and make more paper bagels out of it
and throw them all in a dumpster outside of crocker park shopping center
where i saw a boy who looked eleven wearing a rage against the machine tshirt
in an upscale shopping center
the lifeshare community blood service woke me up two hours before i had to go to work today on the phone and said maureen sill we are in great need of your blood because you have type o negative blood and that is like gold to us and we are offering you an incentive now
and i said, what more kind of incentive can there be to giving blood other than "you will save someone's life" TWO OR THREE TIMES!
and the boy on the phone said, well, everyone gets put into a raffle for a one hundred dollar gasoline gift card
and i rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and said, oh really and he said, yeah
and i actually said, "that's stupid" and asked, does your company sell the blood or donate it, because i know some companies sell it
and he said we are nonprofit
and i said oh, okay, even though that didn't answer my question
and he said see you on tuesday?
and i said yeah, see you on tuesday
and then i hung up and tried to go back to sleep but i couldn't go back to sleep
excess paper bagels
deliberate gasoline gift cards
rare and perfect, type o negative, you want my blood
a part of me that everyone could use!
a part of me that everyone could use!
a part of me that everyone on the entire fucking planet could use!
the thought of that makes me insane, because it makes me feel so useful that i could almost pass out
victor had a dream where a girl paid attention to him for ten or fifteen minutes and that he fell in love with her on accident and in the dream when they kissed he was paranoid that she was drunk and did not really like him and that she just liked the idea of him or anyone at all and he did not say this in the dream but the girl knew anyway and pulled away and said, i am a little drunk but i still like you, a little anyway, but i probably won't forever, just right now
and he said he woke up and cried very briefly and then went to work
my hands feel covered in candle wax that was recently peeled off with a dull vegetable peeler
andy is leaving for scotland tomorrow
i want to have a conversation with you about the "cruelty of abstraction"
and the devices of feelings we forgot were possible
i said something to a man at work today and he said i can't wait to write about that later, and i can't remember what i said but i know he liked it
what kind of cheese if your favorite, a little boy asks me during story hour
and i say none
and he says, no, NACHO cheese
i say i think you got the joke wrong
he says ha, ha, ha.
i say, you're hilarious
he runs away to find a toy train
is it wrong that i fall in love with every little boy i meet
i want to marry them
they are the most loveable people in the world
The original stone may have been a megalithic marker. The oldest depictions show a larger stone and site it at a different place to that of the cage protected current lithic marker. The outdoor rural court at the larger Birlay Stone under the shade of the Birley Tree first found Marion Lillie who was locally called either the Rigwoodie, or the Ringwoody Witch not guilty. The Rigwoody Witch was later accused again, the Rigwoody attached to her name and label of witch is from the Scots Rigwoody meaning thin, or bony. Her second recorded trial has her sent to further courts with a guilty verdict to present to them. Some suppose that she would have been found guilty there and put to death as a witch. Before the imperfect legal process was concluded Marion died and was buried in Spott Church grounds showing she was not convicted at the time of her demise.
Whether the either the process of accusation and defence were contributing factors in Marion’s death, or not the records are not present to say, yet there is a record, “Many witches burnt on Spott Loan,” this follows Marion’s death and some believe that these many were 13, maybe a number not recorded, as 13 are considered by some an ideal number for a coven and 13 has several wicked and even evil connotations for some. The records and several authors comments are visible through the links below. Some record Marion and link her to a Marion Lillie and some record her as the last witch burned in Scotland. We will never have that perspective that ran throughout the times when Europeans thought Witches were to be discovered, tortured and put to death. That perspective that allowed many to dispose of often elderly women who some saw as hanging on to what they waited too long for. Through the death of the falsely accused person others could be rid of the living obstacle by convicting them and killing them as a witch.
Before society could allow for people differing from ‘the norm’ there were many targets to haul before what passed for justice. Those times for some are not that far away and we can at times act like such victimisation is still completely acceptable. Every culture has people at risk as we seem to realise that high ideals are for art, culture and dreams and that low acceptance is still fuelling violence and inherited intolerance is still simmering ready to burn any that happen to be seen as Witch, whatever it meant back then and for whatever it means today. Witch is a word we say, for some it is used as an insult and a slander. Witches past and present are the ones victimised and victorious in reclaiming our rights to be different and to accepted, to be in need as we all are of the harmony and the balance that comes through tolerance. Witch is just one word that people have used to label and dehumanise another person to such extreme that a Witch being murdered was seen a blessing.
The links below give the history better than I have above.
This was part of a journey to other sites. Some are listed below.
© PHH Sykes 2022
phhsykes@gmail.com
The Witches Stone. Spott Community Association
www.spottvillage.org.uk/witches-stone-2/
Witches' Stone, Spott
canmore.org.uk/site/57667/witches-stone-spott
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6453/witches_stone.html
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8239
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.johngraycentre.org/collections/getrecord/ELHER_MEL1560/
Spott Church
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
canmore.org.uk/site/57622/easter-broomhouse
Also The Modern Antiquarian and The Megalithic Portal
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1492/
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?x=368000&y=676600
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1494/pencraig_hill_stan...
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
This is the blade end of a polished flint axe, probably broken during use. From the RMC land site, London.
Conglomerate in the Cretaceous of Utah, USA.
The Buckhorn Conglomerate is a distinctive, Cretaceous-aged lithic conglomerate of fluvial origin. It is dominated by dark-colored pebbles of chert. The unit directly overlies the Jurassic-aged Morrison Formation.
Stratigraphy: Buckhorn Conglomerate Member, lower Cedar Mountain Formation, Lower Cretaceous
Locality: outcrop west of the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, Emery County, Utah, USA (vicinity of 39° 19' 25.52" North latitude, 110° 41' 19.86" West longitude)
This polished axe fragment has been reused as a core to make more flint tools. From the RMC land site, London.
Depth to Bedrock: 25 to 51 cm (10 to 20 inches) to weathered bedrock (paralithic); 51 to 122 cm or more (20 to 48 inches or more) to unweathered bedrock (lithic).
Depth Class: Shallow
Landscape: Low and intermediate mountains and occasionally intermountain hills.
Landform: Mountain slope, hillslopes, and ridges.
Geomorphic Component: Mountain top, mountain flank, and side slope.
Hillslope Profile Position: Summit, shoulder, and backslope.
Parent Material Origin: Low-grade metasedimentary rocks such as tilted siltstone, slate, phyllite, or metasandstone; fragments are channers, flagstones, or stones ranging up to 24 inches across.
Parent Material Kind: Residuum that is affected by soil creep in the upper solum.
Slope: Typically 15 to 70 percent, but range from 5 to 95 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic, shallow Typic Dystrudepts
USE AND VEGETATION:
Major Uses: Woodland, rarely pasture and hayland
Dominant Vegetation: Where wooded--scarlet oak, chestnut oak, red maple, Virginia and pitch pine. Understory species are dominantly mountain laurel, sourwood, and buffalo nut. Where cleared--used for wildlife plantings.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:
Distribution: Southern Blue Ridge Mountains (MLRA 130B) of Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia.
Extent: Large--more than 100,000 acres.
For a detailed description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/CATASKA.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
Visitors to the Pequot Museum experienced a 17th c. military and civilian living-history encampment from the Pequot War (1636-1637) and King Philip’s War (1675-1677) periods. Including musket and bow shooting demonstrations; campfire cooking; lithic tool making; flint knapping demonstrations; period blacksmithing; and English militia drills.
Visitors also had the opportunity to listen to U.S. Army Major (Dr.) Jason Warren discuss his book, Connecticut Unscathed: Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 1675-1676. The book refocuses Connecticut’s role in the war and discusses how the colony achieved success by establishing a policy of moderation towards the Native groups living within its borders.
Supported in part by the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Fossiliferous peloidal phosphorite from the Cambrian of China. (4.7 centimeters across)
Phosphorites are calcium phosphate-rich sedimentary rocks, generally considered to have >15-20% phosphate content. Texturally, phosphorites can be obviously granular, with fossil fragments or oolites or peloids or lithic fragments, or they can be composed of extremely fine-grained, phosphate-rich mud. Compositionally, the phosphate component in phosphorites is principally a mix of apatite minerals: chlorapatite (Ca5(PO4)3Cl), fluorapatite (Ca5(PO4)3F), hydroxyapatite (Ca5(PO4)3OH)), and carbonate fluorapatite (Ca10(PO4,CO3)6F2-3).
Phosphorites are generally marine sedimentary rocks. They range in age from Precambrian to Holocene. In modern oceans, they tend to occur along the eastern margins of some ocean basins where deep-water upwelling occurs under areas of high biologic productivity.
The phosphorite rock shown above was deposited not long after the Cambrian Explosion (the sudden, evolutionary appearance of abundant fossil life near the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary).
On a global scale, phosphorite deposition was at its maximum, volumetrically, during the Neoproterozoic and Cambrian.
Stratigraphy: Siphogonuchites triangularis-Paragloborilus subglobosus Assemblage Zone (a.k.a. 2nd SSF (small shelly fossil) assemblage; a.k.a. Assemblage Zone II), upper Zhongyicun Member, upper Zhujiaqing Formation, lower Meishucunian Stage, lower Lower Cambrian
Locality: just south of Ercaicun, ~4 km WSW of Haikou, Kunming City Prefecture, east-central Yunnan Province, southwestern China
A soil profile of the shallow Rockly soils. (Soil Survey of Spokane County, Washington; by Scott H. Bare, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
Landscape--Mountains, hills, plateaus, canyonlands
Landform--mountain slopes, hillslopes, ridges, structural benches, canyons
Slope--0 to 120 percent
Parent material--residuum and colluvium derived from basalt with an influence of loess and volcanic ash
Mean annual precipitation--about 460 mm
Mean annual air temperature--about 9 degrees C
Depth class--shallow, very shallow
Drainage class--well drained
Soil moisture regime--xeric
Soil temperature regime--mesic
Soil moisture subclass--typic
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Haploxerolls
Soil moisture--usually moist, but dry 60 to 80 consecutive days in all parts between depths of 10 and 30 cm or to a lithic contact
Mean annual soil temperature at lithic contact--8 to 12 degrees C
Depth to bedrock--10 to 30 cm
Thickness of mollic epipedon--10 to 30 cm
Reaction--6.1 to 7.3
Hue--10YR to 5YR
Particle-size control section--loam, silt loam, clay loam, or silty clay loam; about 10 to 30 percent clay; 35 to 75 percent rock fragments consisting of gravel, cobbles, or stones
Percentage of surface covered with stones or cobbles--0 to 15 percent
Faint clay films--lining pores in thin layer above bedrock in some pedons
USE AND VEGETATION:
Use--livestock grazing, wildlife habitat, water supply
Native vegetation--mainly stiff sagebrush, lomatium, bluebunch wheatgrass, and Sandberg bluegrass.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: North-central Oregon, eastern and central Washington, and west-central Idaho; MLRAs 8, 9, 10, and 43C; large extent
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/washington/spo...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/R/ROCKLY.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
A Typic Haplogypsid, petrogypsic from the interior of the UAE.
Typic Haplogypsids are the Haplogypsids that do not have have a gypsic horizon with its upper boundary within 18 cm of the soil surface. These soils do not have a lithic contact within 50 cm of the soil surface. In the United States they occur in Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico.
The gypsic horizon is a horizon in which gypsum has accumulated or been transformed to a significant extent (secondary gypsum (CaSO 4) has accumulated through more than 150 mm of soil, so that this horizon contains at least 5% more gypsum than the underlying horizon). It typically occurs as a subsurface horizon, but it may occur at the surface in some soils.
This pedon has a petrogypsic horizon at a depth of 100 to 200 cm and is identified as a "phase" in classification. In the UAE soil classification system, phases of soil taxa have been developed for those mineral soils that have soil properties or characteristics that occur at a deeper depth than currently identified for an established taxonomic subgroup or soil properties that effect interpretations not currently recognized at the subgroup level. The phases which have been identified in the UAE include: anhydritic, aquic, calcic, gypsic, lithic, petrocalcic, petrogypsic, salic, salidic, shelly, and sodic.
The petrogypsic horizon is a horizon in which visible secondary gypsum has accumulated or has been transformed. The horizon is cemented (i.e., extremely weakly through indurated cementation classes), and the cementation is both laterally continuous and root limiting, even when the soil is moist. Th e horizon typically occurs as a subsurface horizon, but it may occur at the surface in some soils.
Haplogypsids are the Gypsids that have no petrogypsic, natric, argillic, or calcic horizon that has an upper boundary within 100 cm of the soil surface. Some Haplogypsids have a cambic horizon overlying the gypsic horizon. These soils are commonly very pale in color. They are not extensive in the United States. The largest concentrations in the United States are in New Mexico and Texas. The soils are more common in other parts of the world.
Gypsids are the Aridisols that have a gypsic or petrogypsic horizon within 100 cm of the soil surface. Accumulation of gypsum takes place initially as crystal aggregates in the voids of the soils. These aggregates grow by accretion, displacing the enclosing soil material. When the gypsic horizon occurs as a cemented impermeable layer, it is recognized as the petrogypsic horizon. Each of these forms of gypsum accumulation implies processes in the soils, and each presents a constraint to soil use. One of the largest constraints is dissolution of the gypsum, which plays havoc with structures, roads, and irrigation delivery systems. The presence of one or more of these horizons, with or without other diagnostic horizons, defines the great groups of the Gypsids. Gypsids occur in Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Somalia, West Asia, and some of the most arid areas of the western part of the United States. Gypsids are on many segments of the landscape. Some of them have calcic or related horizons that overlie the gypsic horizon.
For more information about describing soils, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs142p2_052523...
For additional information about soil classification using Soil Taxonomy, visit:
sites.google.com/site/dinpuithai/Home
For more information about soil classification using the UAE Keys to Soil Taxonomy, visit:
agrifs.ir/sites/default/files/United%20Arab%20Emirates%20...
The original stone may have been a megalithic marker. The oldest depictions show a larger stone and site it at a different place to that of the cage protected current lithic marker. The outdoor rural court at the larger Birlay Stone under the shade of the Birley Tree first found Marion Lillie who was locally called either the Rigwoodie, or the Ringwoody Witch not guilty. The Rigwoody Witch was later accused again, the Rigwoody attached to her name and label of witch is from the Scots Rigwoody meaning thin, or bony. Her second recorded trial has her sent to further courts with a guilty verdict to present to them. Some suppose that she would have been found guilty there and put to death as a witch. Before the imperfect legal process was concluded Marion died and was buried in Spott Church grounds showing she was not convicted at the time of her demise.
Whether the either the process of accusation and defence were contributing factors in Marion’s death, or not the records are not present to say, yet there is a record, “Many witches burnt on Spott Loan,” this follows Marion’s death and some believe that these many were 13, maybe a number not recorded, as 13 are considered by some an ideal number for a coven and 13 has several wicked and even evil connotations for some. The records and several authors comments are visible through the links below. Some record Marion and link her to a Marion Lillie and some record her as the last witch burned in Scotland. We will never have that perspective that ran throughout the times when Europeans thought Witches were to be discovered, tortured and put to death. That perspective that allowed many to dispose of often elderly women who some saw as hanging on to what they waited too long for. Through the death of the falsely accused person others could be rid of the living obstacle by convicting them and killing them as a witch.
Before society could allow for people differing from ‘the norm’ there were many targets to haul before what passed for justice. Those times for some are not that far away and we can at times act like such victimisation is still completely acceptable. Every culture has people at risk as we seem to realise that high ideals are for art, culture and dreams and that low acceptance is still fuelling violence and inherited intolerance is still simmering ready to burn any that happen to be seen as Witch, whatever it meant back then and for whatever it means today. Witch is a word we say, for some it is used as an insult and a slander. Witches past and present are the ones victimised and victorious in reclaiming our rights to be different and to accepted, to be in need as we all are of the harmony and the balance that comes through tolerance. Witch is just one word that people have used to label and dehumanise another person to such extreme that a Witch being murdered was seen a blessing.
The links below give the history better than I have above.
This was part of a journey to other sites. Some are listed below.
© PHH Sykes 2022
phhsykes@gmail.com
The Witches Stone. Spott Community Association
www.spottvillage.org.uk/witches-stone-2/
Witches' Stone, Spott
canmore.org.uk/site/57667/witches-stone-spott
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6453/witches_stone.html
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8239
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.johngraycentre.org/collections/getrecord/ELHER_MEL1560/
Spott Church
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
canmore.org.uk/site/57622/easter-broomhouse
Also The Modern Antiquarian and The Megalithic Portal
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1492/
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?x=368000&y=676600
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
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Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Some of the stones seem to have craggy faces and stone heads some not unlike other heads and figures in stone carved and setup by the sea to keep a lookout upon the scene that they survey. I might say, “Reminiscent of Easter Island,” and I might say, “more difference than similarity,” and hopefully that would be within the start of a continuing conversation. There are faces everywhere we look and Pareidolia helps to explain how we look for and find faces and other features. Some stones in some settings and circles seem chosen by their resemblance to features and creatures. These stones at Callanish 1 have been semi covered in peat and the peat taken away and at least one stone found relatively recently and re-erected. What we see and what we see into what we see today is our contemporary vision of the stones. We see the stones and we see into the stones as they have weathered and suffered through interaction giving us a stone surface that has transformed from the one that was originally erected. We may be looking at stones that were shaped, carved, decorated and maybe even connected with coverings. The stones far from their appearance now could have been set to act in conjunction and possibly in unison as a lithic Aeolian Harp an instrument of the winds with just a few fibres and skins it could be made ready for Aeolus keeper of the winds to activate? Certain clues are set in stone with prominent stones marking definitive elements and active components. Amongst the impressive seemingly strategic stones and the dilapidated monuments slowly returning into nature there are wonderful lithic characters and soil illustrated wooden vacancies to weave many stories around.
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Grand Canyon National Park: Surface artifacts, such as pot sherds and lithics, are marked by pin flags and their precise location recorded with surveying equipment prior to the start of excavation. Palisades April 2008 Brian Dierker photo
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The original stone may have been a megalithic marker. The oldest depictions show a larger stone and site it at a different place to that of the cage protected current lithic marker. The outdoor rural court at the larger Birlay Stone under the shade of the Birley Tree first found Marion Lillie who was locally called either the Rigwoodie, or the Ringwoody Witch not guilty. The Rigwoody Witch was later accused again, the Rigwoody attached to her name and label of witch is from the Scots Rigwoody meaning thin, or bony. Her second recorded trial has her sent to further courts with a guilty verdict to present to them. Some suppose that she would have been found guilty there and put to death as a witch. Before the imperfect legal process was concluded Marion died and was buried in Spott Church grounds showing she was not convicted at the time of her demise.
Whether the either the process of accusation and defence were contributing factors in Marion’s death, or not the records are not present to say, yet there is a record, “Many witches burnt on Spott Loan,” this follows Marion’s death and some believe that these many were 13, maybe a number not recorded, as 13 are considered by some an ideal number for a coven and 13 has several wicked and even evil connotations for some. The records and several authors comments are visible through the links below. Some record Marion and link her to a Marion Lillie and some record her as the last witch burned in Scotland. We will never have that perspective that ran throughout the times when Europeans thought Witches were to be discovered, tortured and put to death. That perspective that allowed many to dispose of often elderly women who some saw as hanging on to what they waited too long for. Through the death of the falsely accused person others could be rid of the living obstacle by convicting them and killing them as a witch.
Before society could allow for people differing from ‘the norm’ there were many targets to haul before what passed for justice. Those times for some are not that far away and we can at times act like such victimisation is still completely acceptable. Every culture has people at risk as we seem to realise that high ideals are for art, culture and dreams and that low acceptance is still fuelling violence and inherited intolerance is still simmering ready to burn any that happen to be seen as Witch, whatever it meant back then and for whatever it means today. Witch is a word we say, for some it is used as an insult and a slander. Witches past and present are the ones victimised and victorious in reclaiming our rights to be different and to accepted, to be in need as we all are of the harmony and the balance that comes through tolerance. Witch is just one word that people have used to label and dehumanise another person to such extreme that a Witch being murdered was seen a blessing.
The links below give the history better than I have above.
This was part of a journey to other sites. Some are listed below.
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The Witches Stone. Spott Community Association
www.spottvillage.org.uk/witches-stone-2/
Witches' Stone, Spott
canmore.org.uk/site/57667/witches-stone-spott
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6453/witches_stone.html
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8239
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.johngraycentre.org/collections/getrecord/ELHER_MEL1560/
Spott Church
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
canmore.org.uk/site/57622/easter-broomhouse
Also The Modern Antiquarian and The Megalithic Portal
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1492/
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?x=368000&y=676600
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1494/pencraig_hill_stan...
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
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Saprolite (the light-colored area) is weathered bedrock which still retains the original lithic fabric and characteristics. The nature of the saprolite is influenced by the type of rock from which it develops, and it determines the chemical and physical properties of the associated soils. A common characteristic of the highly weathered finer textured granitic saprolite is a light, fluffy feel (low bulk density).
In soil science, the "C" horizon is the soil layer consisting of more or less weathered parent rock or deposited material that is little affected by pedogenesis (soil formation). However, if an overlying horizon contains a significant amount of clay, over time, the clay may be transported into and along vertical (or horizontal) cracks or along channels within macropores creating thick clay coats or clay flows.
The question for this layer is the appropriate horizonation?
Clay films are a coating of oriented clay on the surface of sand grains (clay bridging), soil aggregates, or peds. Clay films also line pores or root channels. This form of orientated clay is considered a pedogenetic process resulting in diagnostic soil features and is most commonly associated with a structured "B" horizon.
The zones of clay accumulation (brown area) in this substratum appears to be inflows at their thickest and in situ weathered where thinly layered, both areas absent of any ped formation or structure.
The "t" designation is most commonly associated with an argillic horizon. It indicates an accumulation of silicate clay that either has formed within a "horizon" and subsequently has been translocated within the horizon or that has been moved into the horizon by illuviation, or both. At least some part of the horizon shows evidence of clay accumulation, either as coatings on surfaces of peds or in pores, as lamellae, or as bridges between mineral grains.
However, is the "t" designation appropriate with any layer where clay coats (films) are present? It has been recognized with non-pedogenic materials such as paralithic materials where the faces of pararock fragments are coated with clayey material (Crt). Therefore, is a "Ct" designation appropriate where clay coats are present on plains of separation or vertical cracks. (See footnote--Keys to Soil Taxonomy, p. 340; "Indicates weathered bedrock or saprolite in which clay films are present.")
A C/B horizon has discrete, intermingled bodies of two horizons: C material dominates, with lesser but discrete bodies of B material; however, is this horizonation appropriate if the "B" part is entirely structureless translocated clay?
This condition leads to a possible separation of the historical pedogenic clay films from in-filling of clayey material, i.e., "clay flows".
For more information about describing and sampling soils, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/resources/guides-and-instructions/field...
or Chapter 3 of the Soil Survey manual:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2022-09/The-Soil-Su...
For additional information on "How to Use the Field Book for Describing and Sampling Soils" (video reference), visit:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_hQaXV7MpM
For additional information about soil classification using USDA-NRCS Soil Taxonomy, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/resources/guides-and-instructions/keys-...
or;
www.nrcs.usda.gov/resources/guides-and-instructions/soil-...