RING OF BRODGAR- Large Standing stones Freestanding / Black/Purple/Green

Description

Long Freestanding Glass Curve featuring the famous Ring of Brodgar in Stenness, Orkney.
The stones are fired onto a colourful Aurora Borealis (Merry Dancers) background. The sky features green and purple frits fired onto the surface.
This piece is 40 x 10 cm (approx)

Here’s what Historic Environment Scotland say about the Standing Stones,

Walk among the enigmatic stones of one of the most spectacular prehistoric monuments in the British Isles. The Ring of Brodgar Stone Circle and Henge is an enormous ceremonial site dating back to the 3rd millennium BC.

The Ring of Brodgar comprises:

• A massive stone circle, originally consisting of 60 stones – 36 survive today
• At least 13 prehistoric burial mounds
• A large rock-cut ditch surrounding the stone circle

The Scottish geologist Hugh Miller, visiting in 1846, wrote that the stones ‘look like an assemblage of ancient druids, mysteriously stern and invincibly silent and shaggy’.

The Ring of Brodgar is part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site, a series of important domestic and ritual monuments built 5000 years ago in the Orkney Islands.

All my work is made in Orkney
This piece is part of my Orkney Collection