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Vandals have targeted the ancient Uffington White Horse in Oxfordshire by spraying part of it purple.
Officers from Thames Valley Police were called to the 3,000-year-old chalk monument at about 2200 BST on Thursday.
They found the head and eye of the horse had been sprayed with purple paint. A banner that [...]
Members of Fylfot Hearth of the Odinic Rite gather at the WHS each year for their Yule ritual. The following video gives some excerpts from this years gathering.
Inspired by the fantastic work put in by the Guardians of the White Horse Stone, Freys Beacon Hearth AOR have set up our own “Guardians” group, which will keep the area of The Forest of Bowland in Lancashire clear of litter and rubbish.
The forest is an area of outstanding natural beauty and is the spiritual home [...]
When the Channel Tunnel Rail link was built the Guardians fought hard to save the White Horse Stone. We succeeded in the main, but the landscape has still been badly scarred by the CTR line and tremendous noise of the high speed trains which pass by close to the WHS. Prior to the rail link [...]
The Valley of Visions is a 2.5 million National Lottery funded project for the Medway Gap. The project touches the White Horse Stone and other Megaliths in the area so if you are interested in our folks heritage, you might want to check out the official website, though it does appear incomplete at this stage. [...]
We had heard that there was a project called the Valley of Visions but little information could be found about this, however in September we were contacted by Richard Haynes of the Kent Downs AONB Unit. Richard is the Landscape, Heritage and Access officer for the Valley of Visions project and so has a direct [...]
This is a short video clip of me “playing” the White Horse Stone through a hole that runs from front to rear.
The Lady Rowena
by John Lesslie Hall
Few were the months ere foes numberless
At the seashore’s sands savagely harassed
The king of the Kentmen. The cruel, blood-thirsty
Men of the Picts minded but little, then,
Foes from the northland, how the fair-haired, dauntless
Earlmen of Anglia ever intrepidly
Hewed them with edges, aiding the Kentmen,
But hied southwardly, ceased not their ravenous
Sacking and [...]
The Death Of Horsa
by John Lesslie Hall
Six-Winters’ time had the sweet, wavy-haired,
Curly-locked queen of Kent-land and Albion
Delighted her lord, lived with decorum
As wife of his bosom. War-mooded men, then,
Hot-hearted Kentmen, harassed the spirit
Of Rowena the winsome, well-lovèd, far-famed
Queen of the Kentmen; cruelly vexed her,
Said she had marred the metal and valor
Of the king of the [...]
The Landing Of Hengist and Horsa
John Lesslie Hall
Early thereafter, earlmen of Anglia,
With Hengist and Horsa, heroes distinguished and
Leaders belovèd, leaped in their fast-chasing,
Stout-builded, sturdy steeds of the water-ways,
On the seas clomb then, to seek for the far-away,
Wide-famed, sea-girt, water-encircled
Island [...]
The Calling Of Hengist and Horsa
by John Lesslie Hall
Lo! in legend and lay long we have heard of
The fame of our fathers, folk-leaders mighty,
Eminent earlmen. Oft, gleemen-thanes
All through the ages, excellent song-smiths,
Have sung of the bold and brave and illustrious
Fathers of England from far o’er the waters,
Earls of the eastward, how, oft in their sea-boats,
They sailed [...]
The UN is threatening to put the Tower of London on its list of world heritage sites in danger after its experts accused the UK of damaging globally significant sites such as Stonehenge, the old town of Edinburgh and the Georgian centre of Bath, the Guardian has learned.
Unesco, the UN’s cultural agency, has told ministers [...]
On the 9th Lenting the Guardians of the White Horse Stone gathered for the 8th Guardians event.
Previously, I had reported that in late Fogmoon last year we had planted around 30 hedge plants which we had obtained free from the charity Woodland Trust. After that event, I had ordered a further 30 hedge plants to [...]
In late Fogmoon (November) Andy Robertson and myself met at the White Horse Stone to plant 30 native hedge plants. For the past few years we have been removed a great deal of rubbish from the immediate and surrounding area and at our last clear up we decided it was the right time to begin [...]
As Odinists, we should make guardianship of Mother Jorth a priority at all times. We need to ensure such things as constant vigilance over the way we dispose of our rubbish, the way we utilise her precious gifts of resources such as water, wood, energy reserves etc and generally work to raise this same awareness [...]
On a beautiful Sunny Ostara morning the Guardians met in North Kent to carry out the first clean up of 2257. We met at our usual meeting place on Blue Bell Hill prior to travelling the short distance to the planned new clean up site. Over the past three years the Guardians have removed a [...]
Greetings All
The Guardians will be holding their first clean up to 2007 on Ostara 21st (Saturday 21st April).
The White Horse Stone is I am pleased to say almost completely clear of major rubbish and only general litter picking is required to maintain the site at present. That being the case I have decided that a [...]
I finally got around to ringing Orange for a PAC(K) code today, that enables me to change network. I have been meaning to dump them for a while after I heard about the White Horse Stone.
It seems they have given up their plans for a second time, nevertheless, I don’t want anything to do [...]
Greetings All
Well curiosity got the better of me and so I thought I’d do a search on the Maidstone planning website. The news from the site is, I am sure you will agree with me, rather pleasing.
The application has been REFUSED!!!!
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Main Location:LAND OFF CHATHAM ROAD, MAIDSTONE
Status Refused on 28-Jul-2006
I hope we will [...]
A report from our Dutch friend Boyke:
For years now the burial mounds in the Dutch Province Drenthe have been neglected and sometimes heavily damaged. In the last couple of year’s young people do not appear to know the importance of these structures anymore and are therefore treating them with no respect at all.
A couple of [...]