Ben Potts

@benjaminsteven.bsky.social

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Local Gov. Archaeology, Books, Art, Mountains. Birmingham City, Post-Punk, Films. Usually found in the Yorks, Worcs, and Pembs Tri-State area. History and Philosophy @ UWL. https://thefastflowingriver.wordpress.com/

A view of a sunset across fields and craggy rocks.
a line of people on a tour in the middle of a huge prehistoric henge, big sky above and dry grass below
A ruined entrance, maybe 1600 years old - made up of large grey stones with grass and a wood beyond.
A suited Leonard Rossiter drinking a pint, along with some bloke in a wooly hat.
Celia Johnson, in the 1944, David Lean directed film, This Happy Breed. She is holding a cup of tea.
A vast, grey mosaic of smooth rock blocks (clints) split by deep, dark cracks (grykes). It looks like a giant, cracked stone pavement or a surreal lunar landscape, carved by ice and rain atop a massive cliff, with a cloudy sky above.
A black and white image of high rise apartments being built. Along the railway embankment, graffiti reads 'Palantir kills!'
Three alabaster figures, one holding a posthumous baby, lie inside a church
A book cover: The Poems of Seamus Heaney.
Three large, long standing stones, once part of a prehistoric dolmen, covered in yellow lichen
Trees, sky, clouds, iridescence.
A stone carved head.
A view from a bridge of a fast flowing river, lined with trees.
A toilet and loo rolls looking like a surprised face.
A silver coloured coin. It looks old and weathered. A regal looking head ia embossed on it.
A garden in summer. Green leaved bushes and a blue summer sky
The purple flowers of a sweet pea.
A still from Indiana Jones and the last Crusade
A black and white photo of two huge standing stones, one rectangular and one trapezoidal
Pink clouds at sunset and a conifer.
A lone of trees, green and copper and wispy cirrus clouds and blue sky above.
The stone built corridor leading out of a prehistoric burial chamber. Bright light can be seen at the end.
The cover of a novel 'Bournville' by Jonathan Coe. It contains a cartoonish drawing of a parade crowd, passers by waving union jack flags, and the black headgear of the Coldstream guards.
A sea view from on top of the burial chamber
A front cover of the novel 'High Rise' by J.G Ballard. A black and white, 70s tower block and blue sky.
A millstone grit escarpment, terraced cliffs, layers of geology, below is a heaped pile of stones, the result of a huge landslide. A green wooded valley below and clouds and bluesky above.
An album cover, 'Heartworm' by the 90s Irish band Whipping Boy. The whole cover is a melancholy blue, a heart shaped mirror that is cracked and showing a person's face.
A standing stone, covered in lichen. It sits in a woodland clearing, reddish fragmented stones below and the green leaves of the tree canopy above. In the distance is a pile of stones, themselves surrounded by large kerb stones.
An old stone ruin surrounded by grass, trees and sky.
A woman in a red t shirt sits alone at kitchen table, bottle of red wine, glass and takeaway meal in front of her. Her night is about to take a turn. It is the character Patricia, played by Kate O' Flynn in Apple TV show Widow's Bay.
Two minute yellow courgettes
A full colour image of the Diamond or 'Swindon' Stone at Avebury, a massive lozenge-shaped prehistoric stone. Pastel green and grey, it is sited next to a modern fence and road, surrounded by grass and blue sky and clouds above. The stone is smooth but cracked and heavily weathered.
A black and white image of the Diamond or 'Swindon' Stone at Avebury, a massive lozenge-shaped prehistoric stone. It is sited next to a modern fence and road, surrounded by grass and blue sky and clouds above. The stone is smooth but cracked and heavily weathered.
A view across long grass towards two distant welsh hills, the 'twin peaks' of Cnicht and Moelwyn Mawr. A deep valley separates them and overhead the sky is blue and filled with white clouds.
A book cover, in white, red and black, The Searchers by Andy Beckett - Five rebels, their dream of a different Britain and their many enemies. Photos of five politicians, four white men and a balc woman.
A museum display of roman footwear, leather sandals and shoes.
A large sarsen standing stone in black and white. The bright sun creates pockets of shadow in the rock, which resemble a face. This may or may not be pareidolia. The stone sits in a large grassy field with a tree and fluffy white clouds for company.
A motorway flyover in black and white.
A shimmering light, cast on a quiet coastal bay. Small islands are dotted around and the coast is a vivid green.
An abandoned manganese mine. Old train tracks disappear into a tunnel adjacent to a black lake.
A book cover - What We Can Know. Ian McEwan
A large capstone sits on supporting upright stones in a grassy field.
An unsettling, handmade doll like figure has been placed on the beams of a holiday cottage bedroom, silently waiting for the moment of sleep before it devours the unsuspecting resident's soul.
A large grey standing stone, part of the West Kennett Avenue. It is sited at a grassy roadside verge, overlooking a brown ploughed field and a rise up to prehistoric barrows and clumps of trees.
A bright blue and white sky, green trees and the purple leaves of a rhododrendron
A large, smooth cylindrical standing stone, weathered at the top, standing within a neolithic burial chamber. The large surrounding stones show cracks and gaps between them. The ground it sits on is muddy and covered with small stones.
The 'Lozenge Stone'. A large, grey chunk of millstone grit that has large diamond shaped grooves carved into it, peck marks and incisions.
An old tunnel wall, whitewashed, has been graffitied (red spray paint) with the word Cymru (the Welsh / Cymraeg word for Wales) and a love heart.
A view of a pyramidal welsh mountain 'Cnicht', trees and fields.
A rocky and grassy mountain
An expansive view of a stone walled passage, an entrance to a hill fort set high in the welsh mountains.
A view of mountains and bluebells.
A roman shrine by a small stream, in a green valley.
A black and white image of Arbor Low Henge, a huge bank and ditch and circle of stones lying on the ground, in the centre. On the horizon two small human figures can just be seen. At the top right is the outline of a small wood.
The far off silhouette of cows on a skyline at dusk
A grassy burial mound covered in dandelions with a view across rolling hills to other prehistoric burial mounds.
A red and white sign saying 'Beware! Deep Shaft'. It is situated on a grassy hill overlooking a lake and the fields and sprawl of post industrial England. The sky is a hazy blue and white.
The interior of a cave.