Yesterday Jenny and I were invited to attend a lecture at The Yorkshire Museum on the Melsonby hoard. The details of the hoard are absolutely stunning. I did start taking some photographs of the presentation but was just so overwhelmed by the volume of amazing images of all of the finds that I ended up…
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Druids in Richmond! (Again!)
After the last blog post on the film Arcadia, I thought I would have a look through the British Film Institute’s free online archive, from which many of the clips used in Arcadia were taken. I was intrigued by the clip of the druids that was in the film, and although I wasn’t able to…
‘Ossing About
Posted on Author Mandua BrigaPosted in Mari Lwyd, Richmond, Richmond Old 'Oss, Winter SolsticeLeave a Reply
On Christmas Eve we went over to Richmond to see T’Owd ‘Oss do his stuff around the town. T’Owd ‘Oss – or ‘The Old Horse’ to southerners – is a real horse’s skull on a pole, which is carried around the centre of the town every Christmas Eve. All decked out in greenery and poinsettias,…