Prehistoric round house, Coquet Valley, Northumberland. On location with Mike Pearson.
Author: Michael Shanks
lost in the post
Ben in the old kitchen of the Estate Manager’s house, Cragside. Taken on expired (June 2001) Polaroid 690 in summer 2012, lost and forgotten, found again when I was heading back there this February 2016.
Cragside, Northumberland
Scene of crime. Investigating with Mike Pearson. Home and estate of the First Lord Armstrong. Now in the hands of The National Trust.
postbox
A returning fascination with postal systems (… The Crying of Lot 49) – see the section on the postcard in my “Experiencing the Past” – [Link] Expired Polaroid film stock (Type 690) – 2006. Camera – NPC 195.
a physiognomy of angels
With Mike Pearson in Elsdon churchyard, Northumberland, England.
archaeological pen
Japanese bog ash. Fraxinus mandshurica or Fraxinus sieboldiana. “Kojiro Tamo Chijimimoku”. Ancient wood recovered from a bog in Japan. Perhaps 3000 years old. Pen by Motoshi Kazuno – [Link]
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