Update and photos
Oct. 29th, 2012 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stalkerbunnyMuseology studies have been... progressing. Today I both checked my grade for the previous installment and started on the second's exam thesis, which says something about the pace of things. :P Despaired over that a bit a while ago but eh, still hanging on. Even if OTHER things I should have done have been falling to the wayside a bit. Oh, and I got an A in the last exam (from A-E and F for a failing grade), so that wasn't so bad I guess.
Besides that, have been crotcheting berets. So far, one succesful round one for me, and still working on a square topped one. That one was modified from the pattern for the round, so first I had to learn to crotchet squares and then work out how I needed to modify the pattern so the walls came out satisfactory. Which meant unspooling everything many many times, but I MIGHT have it now. Maybe. Just started to narrow it down so we'll see. Now to figure out how to get measurements from people these are for... think I'll have to make it a non-surprise. Well, the what anyway, they won't know the colour. :3
Yesterday, I was rudely woken by a nasty dream about scary people attacking with motorcycles, and while stumbling out realized that the sun was just rising and everything had a pretty frost covering. So instead of falling back in bed I went out on the hill above the house where I live and took photos. I'd just found out there are some (probably viking age) stone mounds there, and I did indeed find them, as well as pretty pretty nature.
That's an interesting thing about a lot of these sorts of prehistoric monuments from bronze age to iron age/early medieval times is that they really often are built on the most scenic places one can find in the place. (also talk about it here) This despite the culture and religion of the builders having changed entirely in the meanwhile (bronze age grave mounds were for a sun cult, whereas in the viking era the grave mounds' function was to show land ownership and to some extent maybe ancestor worship).
So basically, if you know a place had population in a certain era, just go find the highest rocky place with the best view over the land and the mounds will probably be there. :9
At least, that's what I experienced yesterday. x3 In fact, found one definite (if a bit flattened) mound, and on the OTHER peak of the rocky top of the hill, the one which was if anything higher, also some stones that might have been the remains of a smaller mound. Older, perhaps, or made for the spouse of the great ancestor? Or maybe it wasn't a mound at all.
Pictures!
The hill is literally right above the house where I'm living, just opened the back gate in the garden and climbed it. This one is actually from the corner of the garden, over the neighbours backyard (and behind it the wooded hill I climbed onto).
After I'd climbed just a bit I already got a nice view of Tumba, since this whole area is built on higher ground, with a valley between it and the town centre (roof on left is where I live).
After the short climb with leafy trees there was the rocky top with mainly pines and some junipers, with largish open areas only growing moss and lichen, especially around the grave mound.
The remains itself didn't look that impressive in my pictures but here is some of it in close up.
Smaller ledge right above the house, to the left of the mound.
View from there to the centre
And then I just circled around the top of the hill and took pictures until my camera ran out of power (quite fast in the cold).
Besides that, have been crotcheting berets. So far, one succesful round one for me, and still working on a square topped one. That one was modified from the pattern for the round, so first I had to learn to crotchet squares and then work out how I needed to modify the pattern so the walls came out satisfactory. Which meant unspooling everything many many times, but I MIGHT have it now. Maybe. Just started to narrow it down so we'll see. Now to figure out how to get measurements from people these are for... think I'll have to make it a non-surprise. Well, the what anyway, they won't know the colour. :3
Yesterday, I was rudely woken by a nasty dream about scary people attacking with motorcycles, and while stumbling out realized that the sun was just rising and everything had a pretty frost covering. So instead of falling back in bed I went out on the hill above the house where I live and took photos. I'd just found out there are some (probably viking age) stone mounds there, and I did indeed find them, as well as pretty pretty nature.
That's an interesting thing about a lot of these sorts of prehistoric monuments from bronze age to iron age/early medieval times is that they really often are built on the most scenic places one can find in the place. (also talk about it here) This despite the culture and religion of the builders having changed entirely in the meanwhile (bronze age grave mounds were for a sun cult, whereas in the viking era the grave mounds' function was to show land ownership and to some extent maybe ancestor worship).
So basically, if you know a place had population in a certain era, just go find the highest rocky place with the best view over the land and the mounds will probably be there. :9
At least, that's what I experienced yesterday. x3 In fact, found one definite (if a bit flattened) mound, and on the OTHER peak of the rocky top of the hill, the one which was if anything higher, also some stones that might have been the remains of a smaller mound. Older, perhaps, or made for the spouse of the great ancestor? Or maybe it wasn't a mound at all.
Pictures!
The hill is literally right above the house where I'm living, just opened the back gate in the garden and climbed it. This one is actually from the corner of the garden, over the neighbours backyard (and behind it the wooded hill I climbed onto).
After I'd climbed just a bit I already got a nice view of Tumba, since this whole area is built on higher ground, with a valley between it and the town centre (roof on left is where I live).
After the short climb with leafy trees there was the rocky top with mainly pines and some junipers, with largish open areas only growing moss and lichen, especially around the grave mound.
The remains itself didn't look that impressive in my pictures but here is some of it in close up.
Smaller ledge right above the house, to the left of the mound.
View from there to the centre
And then I just circled around the top of the hill and took pictures until my camera ran out of power (quite fast in the cold).
