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... Its the likely shape of some of Exmoor¹s Stone Settings......

O & O
Odyssey Books & Other Press, Minehead & London
   
          Frances Presley and Tilla Brading
       
   
    Stone Settings 
      
Blurring the boundaries of authorship, text, installation and performance,
STONE SETTINGS is a collaborative exploration, through poems and images, of
stone monuments on Exmoor, particularly the Neolithic stone settings, rows,
longstones and circles. The texts and images that were created on site are
affected by the remote landscape and sometimes extreme weather conditions.
They are also a response to the palimpsest of human interventions, from
ancient geometry and folklore to the impact of global warming and languages
of archaeology. Stone settings are unique to Exmoor in their rough or even
random geometric patterns. The authors make extensive use of texts by
archaeologists and antiquarians, especially those of Hazel Eardley-Wilmot,
who described stone settings as ŒExmoor¹s special puzzle¹.  Exmoor¹s stone
monuments are often small and fragile: their elusive and even disputed
existence is an important element in this work.  Some more recent monuments,
such as a war memorial, have found their way into the collaboration, and the
authors have also created their own Œstone settings¹ as a space for writing
and performance. 
PUBLISHED IN AUGUST 2010
 
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