It’s #Standingstonesunday again and I’ve been looking through the painting / drawings I did of some of the ancient stone monuments of South Wales a while back. This is the rocking stone of Pontypridd …. and it’s huge! There’s one stone on top of another and when you stand on the top one and jump, it rocks! It’s been like that for millennia, probably accidentally put together when glaciers retreated.
I was travelling around South Wales hunting the megaliths with filmmaker Melvyn Williams and pre-historian Dewi Bowen and here they are rocking the stone together. The stone circle around it is modern I believe, possibly Gorsedd Stones erected for a National Eisteddfod, but I’m not sure.
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I was hiking in the city this weekend (Rock Creek park in Washington DC). We passed some humongous boulders. All I could think of to account for these massive rocks was “glacier,” though I haven’t tried to find any account of the area’s geological history.
They’re so beautiful. Nature loves rocks. And nearly each one she makes seems to be stunning in its beautiful form. I guess human beings have been affected by this beauty for a long, long time.
Very lovely and sensitive drawing, Rosie.
Thanks Aletha. I visited some exquisite large rock carvings when I did a residency in Idaho. The rocks were beautiful in themselves but ancient artists had added to their beauty and significance with the petroglyphs.