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Fruit trees within the stone walls.
(I wrote short prose pieces to accompany some of the images in his book, "Within the Stone").
A large, deep hole was dug within the stone circle in 1620 by George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham, who was looking for treasure.
The effect, caused by parallel fibres or by oriented imperfections or inclusions within the stone, is typical of cat's-eye, tigereye, satin spar, and bronzite.
Here's one of the images from Bill Atkinson's book, and the mini-essay I wrote about it for "Within the Stone": Perhaps we tamed fire.
My little essay accompanying this photograph was one of a collection of writings paired with Mr. Atkinson's sliced-rock pictures in "Within the Stone," a book from BrownTrout Publishers (I have no financial interest in sales of the book).
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A road-facing stone wall, built for a Westchester client, has embedded at its center a huge boulder that looks like an invader from glacial prehistory; another wall has a fallen tree trunk laid horizontally within the stones, guaranteeing, at some point, the wall's collapse.
Attending in 2014, I'd been struck by its attempt to capture a countercultural spirit that had long been extinguished – and which had itself been a kind of improvised iteration of the ancient, unknowable rituals that may have once taken place within the stones.
The use of musical instruments in worship was a divisive topic within the Stone-Campbell Movement from its earliest years, when some adherents opposed the practice on scriptural grounds, while others may have relied on a cappella simply because they lacked access to musical instruments.
Michelangelo used to say that the figures he created were asleep within the stones, waiting to be discovered.
Within 40 years, the stone had passed into the possession of Lord Dalhousie after a military campaign every bit as ruthless and blood-soaked as those which had previously been fought for possession of the Koh-i-Noor.
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