standing stone
Aug 30, 2026
Where the Whistlers Fly
On the old English belief in the Seven Whistlers, the unseen birds whose calls marked the boundary between the known road and the country beyond it, and on what the blank edges of old maps once meant to those who had to cross them.
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Aug 13, 2026
The Giants Beneath the Turf
In the west of Ireland the Fir Bolg are remembered first as an ancient, defeated people, and only later as giants whose bodies became the hills they once held.
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Aug 2, 2026
The Stone That Turns Three Ways
A visit to Newgrange and its carved triple spiral, and an honest reckoning with how much of what we say about the symbol is memory and how much is invention.
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Jul 31, 2026
The Stones That Remember
A journal account of Britain and Scandinavia's rune-carved standing stones, and the old belief that they mark ground where the living and the fairy world touch.
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Jul 28, 2026
Where the Antlers Keep Watch
A journey from a weathered Gallo-Roman pillar in Paris to the tree lines of Britain, tracing the scattered evidence for Cernunnos, the antlered god who guards the border between the human world and the wild.
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