The Silicon Tribesman

Multi Media Artist And Educator Working In The North West Of England

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Prehistoric Pottery Design, Craven Museum, Skipton, Yorkshire

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Prehistoric Jet Ear Stud, Craven Museum, Skipton, Yorkshire

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Iron Age Human Skull, Deposited Without Body, Skirethorns, 770 to 390 BCE, Craven Museum, Skipton, Yorkshire

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Iron Age Flasby Sword, Craven Museum, Skipton

This Iron Age sword was found in a pool on Flasby Fell. It has an iron blade inside a copper alloy scabbard. The design of the sword is that used by the local tribe of people, the Brigantes. They made it around 50 CE. During the Iron Age, water may have been seen as magical.

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Iron Age Stone Head, found at Wentcliffe Beck, Earby, Craven Museum, Skipton, Yorkshire

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Prehistoric Mace Head, found in a bog, Langcliffe, Craven Museum, Skipton, Yorkshire

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'Flemington 2' Pictish Symbol Stone, Aberlemno Hall, Aberlemno, nr. Forfar, Angus

A first visit to a newly discovered stone (2022).

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Flemington 1 Pictish Symbol Stone, Resin Cast of a 6th or 7th Century CE Symbol Stone, Aberlemno Hall, Angus

Dug up in 1962 during ploughing in the field less than 30m east of the church. The original is in The McManus, Dundee, presented by the farmer David Grant.

On the undressed boulder are incised Pictish symbols of a horseshoe and 'beast'. The 'beast' is a unique Pictish hybrid perhaps combining elements of a dolphin and seahorse. The same pairs of symbols, decorated in an equally simple way, are found at Congash (Highland), Clatt (Aberdeenshire) and Bruceton (Perth & Kinross).

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Neolithic Vessel Fragment from the House of Dun, Montrose Museum, Angus

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Whalley Abbey, circa 12th and 13th century CE, Whalley, Lancashire

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Whalley Abbey, circa 12th and 13th century CE, Whalley, Lancashire

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The Whalley Early Medieval Crosses, Whalley, Lancashire

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Birkrigg Prehistoric Stone Circle, nr. Ulverston, South Lakes

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Birkrigg Prehistoric Stone Circle, nr. Ulverston, South Lakes

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Birkrigg Prehistoric Stone Circle, nr. Ulverston, South Lakes

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'Giant's Grave' Prehistoric Standing Stones, nr. Millom, Lake District

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Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve and Osprey Platforms, South Lakes