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Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt
@daniel.statement-heritage.com
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Historic buildings and landscape archaeologist, working for a living as www.statement-heritage.com . Ruins and their repair, maritime, industrial and agricultural heritage. Aerial photographer. Intertidal deposit.
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Irony
‘The BBC has been institutionally biased for decades’ reports Murdoch owned shitepipe Sky News Pots are also black screams kettle. Now over to our gob-on-stick editor for independent reporting, errr….. Nigel Farage
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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A relief to see that subsection 9 provides for any actions relating to the ‘apparatus’
The apparatus
October 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Betteridge’s Law of Headlines strikes again…
Betteridges Law of Headlines states that the most likely answer to a headline phrased with a binary question is always ‘no’ or it would have been presented as an assertion. This example posits the exciting prospect that the weather in central Scotland in February might be anything other than drab.
February 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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History doesn’t repeat, but it certainly echoes. #Ukraine
Trump Truth Social Post Feb 12th 2025 re agreement on future friendship in exchange for appeasement of territorial aggression. Memorandum between Chamberlain and Hitler, Munich sept 30, 1938
February 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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A squall before the storm. Main runway RAF Davidstow Moor, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall this afternoon (sound on)
January 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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The four arseholes of the apocalypse.
The man who knows who everyone knows; the man who knows what everyone buys (and his lovely wife); The man who knows what everyone wants to know; and the man who wants to own Mars. Front Row, inauguration of Donald Trump.
January 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Specifically Walsoken… was starting to think I’d made it too hard
Google map
December 23, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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Guess the place.
#MapMonday surv1887 published 1887.
Map cc-by National Library of Scotland.
Description in alt text.
6 inch to the mile Ordnance Survey County Series historic map extract showing lots of orchards, a small linear village, a mixture of linear and curvilinear field boundaries and curvilinear / irregular and straight lanes, the placenames Chapnall Field, Turnpike Marsh and Staithe Field, a medieval antiquity ‘Holy Trinity Chapel’, and an avenue associated with ‘Musticott House’.
December 23, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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Smallholding homestead, mid 19th century, near Truro, Cornwall. Cottage, stable, pigsties, vegetable garden and, originally a small orchard. 📸 my own
An aerial photograph of a cottage standing in an oval garden plot, with overgrown orchards to the rear, starting to overwhelm a simple stable and pigsty. (c) www.statement-heritage.com Nov 2024.
December 18, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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Buzza Hill was the site of excavations by William Borlase (1695-1772) in 1752. Reported in Phil. Trans. Of The R. Soc (XLVIII, 1753) these are among the earliest formally reported archaeological observations 🧵
Survey plan of two barrows at Buzza Hill, Scilly by William Borlase (1752) reproduced from ‘Ancient Scilly’ P 1974, David and Charles
December 17, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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Chambered tomb, Buzza Hill, St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly. #TombTuesday. 🧵
Chambered tomb, with one in situ megalithic lintel, on a grassy hill overlooking a small town (Hugh Town) set in a sandy isthmus with sea to either side. On the horizon are the islands of Samson and Bryher
December 17, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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Crichton Castle, Midlothian. Storm incoming. 15.09.24
Castle, winter tree, small boy, stormy sky
December 15, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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Winter walk, Crichton, Midlothian
Winter tree silhouette
December 15, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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Roll up, roll up. ‘England’ by the pound. Stonehenge visitor centre, November 2013 , but don’t fret, still available in time for Christmas.
#StandingStoneSunday #Anthropocene 1/2
Plastic snow globe, containing plastic triathlons, plastic grass, and plastic snow suspended in a mixture likely to include ingredients such as water, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), and glycerol. Supplied in nation branded box. The perfect momento of your visit for an eternity in landfill.
December 15, 2024 at 10:54 AM
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Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides Sept, 2023.
Signpost on the gates to a play park. Text reads “Guth Airson Iarrasan Nis EOROPIE DUNES PARK. No dogs allowed. No camping. No vehicles. Please use bins. DONATIONS ALWAYS WELCOME. PLEASE RESPECT THE SABBATH.”
December 15, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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And here’s an almost Mousehole Cat, keeping watch over the memorial stone of lost mariner Obed Cary in the chuchyard of Paul parish church just up the hill. 📷 2024 by me
Cat and Gravestone. Memorial reads “In Loving Memory of OBED CARY Master Mariner Who was lost at sea whilst on a voyage from HIL,10 LIVERPOOL, in the year 1862 AGED 32 YEARS Also of RUTH The dearly beloved daughter of above And MARTHA, His wife Who died March 31, 1898 Aged 37 years "For awhile the tired body lies with feet towards morn." Amd MARTHA CARY Who died October 25, 1909 Aged 77 years”
December 14, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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Mousehole (prn: ‘Mow-zuhl’). 📷 my own, 2017, from a proper Cessna. #aerialphotography #cornwall #harbours
Aerial photograph of Mowzul a harbour village on the southwest tip of Cornwall set in a steeply sided break in cliffs. The village is set around the beach which in turn is protected by stone piers, first built in the 14th century, rebuilt and extended several times.
December 14, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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A couple of small “under ten” boats returning to the outer harbour at Mevagissey #cornwall. December 2023 📸 my own
Wide angle shot a harbour formed by two granite piers, the one to left having a white and black painted lighthouse. Inside the harbour are several brightly painted trawlers (fishing boats). Two small, single crewed ‘under 10m’ fishing boats are heading back into the harbour. The sea is azure blue. The village, inner harbour and surrounding fields of Mevagissey in the background. (C) www.statement-heritage.com
December 14, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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The House of Windsor are famously great judges of character
Duke of York (briefly later Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson meet a little known mid 20th century maniac.
December 13, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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A little more seaside Recency Gothick (very much with a k) from Sidmouth. ‘Beach House’, built late 18th century and ornamentalised following storm damage in 1824. GII*. My photo, 2021. #AdoorableThursday #seaside #architecture #history
Circa 1820 villa with interesting Gothicised details. 3 storeys stucco faced, flanking Ionic pilasters. 2 storey bow to right of entrance. Low pitch slate roof with scalloped openwork eaves board. 3 casement windows 2nd floor, 2 on 1st and ground floors, tripartite on bow. The centre light of the tripartite windows and the other 1st floor window all French casements. All have 4-centred heads, marginal Gothic glazing and hood moulds over. Delicate iron balconies on elaborate brackets to 1st floor windows, that on bow with trellis supports to tent-shaped canopy. Vaulted open porch with 4-centred heads to openings, clustered shaft supports fluted pilasters to inner side of those flanking door. Frieze and moulded cornice projecting at corners, iron balustrade shove. Door of 4 moulded panels, upper 2 with 4-centred heads. 4-centred arched fanlight. Deep panelled reveals and soffit. The rear elevation is slate hung. Gothic windows with marginal glazing. Tuscan porch.
December 12, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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Woolbrook Glen, now Royal Glen Hotel, Sidmouth. Grade I listed. c.1817 for General Baynes, who had delegated command of the defeated British troops at the second battle of Sackets Harbour. It was leased to the Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria. #adoorablethursday
Doorway in Gothick ‘cottage ornee’ style.
December 12, 2024 at 9:04 AM
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Lockwood de Forest House c1887, 7E 10th New York City. #astheticsm #nyc #WindowWednesday
Richly carved teak oriel window by Lockwood de Forest with rich Indian influenced carvings
December 11, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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Early modern closes in Penryn, likely enclosed from older open fields in an estate called Bohelland or Bethellan.
The earliest records we have for Bohelland date to the 13th century. It was the setting for the tragedy "Fatal Curiosity" by George Lillo (1736) based on an older Cornish folk tale.
Curving narrow fields characteristic of the early medieval enclosure of formerly unenclosed fields based on raised strips. The field boundaries are richly vegetated with trees. Aerial photo © www.statement-heritage.com 2024
December 10, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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Falmouth 1579 and now. The manuscript map is from the atlas of William Cecil, Secretary of State to Elizabeth I and was used to illustrate matters at court. Aerial photo mine. #cornwall #cartography #maps #history
his is a map of Falmouth Haven. It forms part of an atlas that belonged to William Cecil Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I's Secretary of State. Burghley used this atlas to illustrate domestic matters. The map takes the form of a bird's eye view. St Mawes and its larger sister castle, Pendennis are shown. These were built by Henry VIII as part of a defensive chain of fortresses to protect the south coast of England after 1538 after a peace treaty was signed by Francis I of France and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor King of Spain, making an invasion of their combined forces likely. The castles are depicted with accuracy showing their architectural form. The rest of the information presented here is shown with equal care: individual buildings are depicted with their particular architectural features recorded, such as the stepped gable of the tower in a college quadrangle in ‘perm:borough’ and thatched cottages. A dominant feature of the map is the network of field boundaries that the draughtsman has recorded. It is not clear whether these are a generic representation of fields or whether they are actual observed boundaries. Areas of raised ground are shown as are forests. The road network is highlighted in red, suggesting a preoccupation with communication routes. Lord Burghley has annotated the map in places, labelling a rocky outcrop ‘black rock’. Features of the coast and the sea surrounding it were of great importance as knowledge of them is vital for matters of defence, an issue of great significance during Elizabeth’s reign when England was under threat from Spain. (British Library Royal 18 D. III, ff.15v-16) Public Domain Aerial view of Falmouth Haven from above Round Ring, Penryn © 2024 www.statement-heritage.com
December 10, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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Chun Quoit
#TombTuesday
Megalithic chambered tomb comprising a perched massive stone on top of two others surrounded by stones making up the remains of a barrow. Above is a stormy dramatic sky and behind is the sea
December 10, 2024 at 8:11 AM