By Eric Fitch This article is a companion to Eric Fitch’s article ‘H.G. Wells and the megaliths’ in Northern Earth 180 (Summer 2025). Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) was best known for his seminal science fiction, but he was a polymath – as novelist, prophet and popular educator – who spanned the Victorian and the atomic […]
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The interpretation of prehistoric features as ritual sites and practices may distract attention from the ancient need for functional infrastructure. Roger B. Hutchins argues for one such case. Most NE readers, if few others, will be familiar with prehistoric stone rows. I became a guide for the Dartmoor National Park about 35 years ago, and
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March 2025 sees the launch of The Hare, a free monthly newsletter associated with Northern Earth. This provides an opportunity to share news items, details of events, recommendations etc that the quarterly print cycle can’t keep up with. Sign up now here. (The Hare will replace the ‘What’s New’ section of this site, but do
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By John E. Palmer, 2024 Springendal is a protected nature reserve near Hezingen, in the province of Twente in the Netherlands. In April 2019 two metal detectorists (1) searched on terrain belonging to Staatsbosbeheer(Forestry Commission) and found some gold coins which they were unable to interpret or date. After consultation they decided to duly report
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By Simon Crook And if you flung her headdress on her from under her highlows you’d wheeze whyse Salmonson set his seel on a hexengown – James Joyce, Finnegans Wake ‘an orangefiery shipload from the planet Alpha’ On 10 December 2023, 32 days into navigating a family bereavement, I learnt of a recently discovered Roman
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A constant element of an alt-antiquarian perspective is to experience the world with senses as alert as they can be at the juncture we find ourselves at any one time. It’s a mode where neo-antiquarianism, psychogeography, phenomenology, forteana and more may coincide – a state of not looking for anything, but being ready for anything
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We have recently added articles that have not appeared in print in the magazine, owing mostly to their length the journal format. Please search for ‘For Queen and Country’, an exploration of England’s Eleanor Crosses from a neo-antiquarian standpoint; and ‘Walking Myth into Place’, a revisiting and upgrading of the controversial concept of the terrestrial
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Walking myth into place: the damned zodiac John Billingsley “This is what we walk: the shape of the gods. We burn, by use, their outline upon the turf … The track is the heated spoor of our own ancestral animal-host: hare, raven, salmon, wolf, or boar, whatever lives in the recesses of memory-bones … Energies
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For Queen and Country The Eleanor Crosses are among the outstanding monuments of the Middle Ages. They represent one of the most developed of our ancient funeral routes, and embody a wide range of architectural style and innovation. They also carry a weight of symbolism drawn from the mythic aspirations of a mediaeval dynasty. John
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The first point noticed about the Hebden Bridge Zodiac is that it is ‘upside-down’; which it isn’t of course, except insofar as maps are oriented with N at the top. More accurately, the figures all present themselves to be viewed from a northerly perspective, rather than, as in other zodiacs, revolving around a central point.
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