1. Foundations for Falsehood 2; 2. Sundown at Sunkenkirk; 3. Swinside Striae
FOUNDATIONS FOR FALSEHOOD 2
oil on canvas | 18" x 14" | 2004 | £NFS
SUNDOWN AT SUNKENKIRK
oil on canvas | 16" x 12" | 2005 | £100
SWINSIDE STRIAE
photo | 6" x 10" | 2003
#LE28 print run 25 A4
SUNKENKIRK (aka SWINSIDE),
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55 surviving stones of porphyritic slate at the edge of
Swinside Farmhouse comprise this magnificent Cumbrian
circle. 90’ in diameter, with the tallest stone
7’ high, and home to apparently uninterested cattle
and sheep. A wonderful 4 stone portal provides a south
east entrance and excavations in 1901 found that the
ground had been levelled before the circle’s
construction. An ever-popular location for fire-festivals
and celebration, the name Sunkenkirk derives from the legend that
when a christian church was erected on the site the
devil sucked it into the earth, and that the circle is
all that remained of the foundations by dawn. In contrast, Swinside is less
fanciful and derives from the area's pig farming history.
OS: SD.172.882 Take the 3rd minor road north heading west
from Broughton-in-Furness on the A595, and a 20 minute or
so, slightly uphill, walk along a private road to
Swinside farm.