Why a Northern Antiquarian?

There are several impressive internet data-bases that deal with the matters which I'm interested in (old standing stones, circles, neolithic remains, holy wells, prehistoric rock art, etc), but with the exception of one called BRAC, the others have a shallow irritating tendency towards what historians and politicians call 'class values'. It's sad but true. The data-bases themselves aren't obviously of that sorta nature, but the people on the forums tend to be. This extends outwardly to affect the nature and function of sites - so much so, that several websites actively ban people from posting and making comments unless they tow the party-line, so to speak. This, quite frankly, does nothing more than highlight (and exacerbate) control freaks at the helm. And control freaks aint welcome in my world. I've had my share of them in the past and have neither time nor respect for such shallow entities. Egomaniacs (strongly related to control freaks) also have a tendency to people the forums of such megalithic websites, subverting threads and ridiculing things they have no understanding of. Hence, with such ingredients being seemingly endemic to some of the larger websites, 'A Northern Antiquarian' seemed necessary.

Why 'Northern'?

Simple! (the answer, not me!) There is an excellent tendency of folk north of Watford to speak their mind and not - as Southerners tend to do - try being 'nice', or wearing false smiles to folk they don't like. Up North (as they say) we call a spade a spade! And that's what this blogsite is all about: straight talking - about all things megalithic and their animistic archaeological compatriots.

The blogsite emerged after I'd rediscovered a standing stone near a scruffy little town called Keighley, West Yorkshire. It hadn't been catalogued before so I was about to add it to one of the two main websites (The Megalithic Portal [MegPort] or The Modern Antiquarian [TMA]) but had a dilemma with the name I had to give it. Ordinarily I'd name a newly discovered site after the field it was in, or the old farmhouse it was next to, or the woodland it was in, etc (y' get the drift) - but this one had a problem: the land-owner didn't want everyone to know its exact whereabouts and said, if I was gonna describe it, he'd like its exact whereabouts kept quiet. No probs - or so you'd think. But there was another additional ingredient: this 'ere standing stone had a minge carved on one side of it! Yeahhh...a minge! A pussy, twat, muff, fanny, vagina - call it what you will - but a woman's genitals were indelibly carved on its west-facing edge.

So fucking what? - you might ask. Well, as a result of this 'ere carving (and it's blatant - no mistaking it for summat else, or the imaginative ruminations of a goddess-freak gone mad) I thought, 'Givvit a name which expresses the carving.' And so I called it the Minge Stone. Friends threw a few other names at it: the Fukkit Stone, Muff Stone, Yoni Stone, and more. But then came the issue of sticking it on the web. No one liked the name it seemed. Any of the names! It just wasn't 'PC'. Grown men and women (or so they think) couldn't handle a simple issue like this. So what was I gonna do....?

The Northern Antiquarian! A site for Northern folk with down-to-earth attitudes. None of this poncey southern 'let's be nice' bollox, when in fact the people who say things like that are actually repressed fuctup gits. Let's get back to basics and say things as they are; and with this blogsite, talk about archaeological sites in a straightforward manner, ignoring the superficialities of y' suit-and-ties and arse-licking pedantry. This is The Northern Antiquarian for northern folk: none of those southern puffs on here who don't know their cup-and-rings (CR) from a coupla rock nodules. Like others in its wake, the site is ostensibly a data-base of sites. And so, to gerrit started, I present the newly discovered Minge Stone. Enjoy!

NB - Check the new, updated Northern Antiquarian blog, here: http://megalithix.wordpress.com/ - Kicks shit outta this one!