Arthur’s Stone: Dorstone Hill
“Arthur’s Stone: Dorstone Hill”
Christine Farmer, pen and ink drawing (12″ x 17″) (work in progress).
Associated by name with the legend of King Arthur, this stone structure is a chambered tomb built around five thousand years ago, on a hill overlooking the River Dore in Herefordshire. What remains today are the stone burial chamber covered with an enormous and now broken ‘capstone’, and an entrance passage. The entire structure would originally have been covered with an earth mound. The siting and construction of these megaliths was of great importance to the communities which built them to house the remains of many individuals. Their entrance passageways were often aligned with other features in the landscapes and sometimes with particular celestial events.
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I have taken liberties with the location and transported it to some of my favourite fields close to my home in Stourbridge, while the pebbles in the foreground are some that I have collected from beaches in recent years. As you see the drawing is not quite finished, but I will be writing about the final stages of the work in my art blog, which you can also subscribe to.
All blog posts on this drawing are available here: Arthur’s Stone: Dorstone Hill.
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