Having written academically on 5th-7th century Ireland, it was particularly compelling to see and even pick up artifacts at the British Museum from this era and to see in tangible forms what I had mostly encountered through words or pictures. Holding a stone axe head or a small carved figurine somehow folded time in a way that erased a strictly linear accounting of passing years. Later, while touring Edinburgh Castle, I was fortunate enough to be able to weild a claymore, something that wasn't on any official bucket list but which, when opportunity presented itself, seemed like something I'd always wanted to do. Artifacts fire the imagination. The more we know about what surrounds those artifacts, the richer the imaginative ponderings. I was also struck by the reasonable cost of galleries and museums in the UK - usually free. The only barrier to visiting and taking part in the mezmerizing collections is personal initiative. I like that.
Ingenuity Arts website architecture
14.7.09
Travel and Learning
Labels:
artifact,
British Museum,
claymore,
curiosity,
Edinburgh Castle,
Europe,
history
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haha I enjoyed that picture : ) Very Nice.
- Sparky
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