(I can't remember the name of it, a country house built by a mad English nobleman (weren't they all?) which was supposed to be a picturesque half-ruined folly, but the tower was designed so badly that it fell down and rendered the whole house an actual ruin before the 19th Century was over. Oh what was its name, what am I thinking of?)
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 14:49 (Yesterday)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonthill_Abbey
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
THAT IS THE ONE!!! Thank you so much. I was thinking "Fountains Abbey? Fontainbleu Abbey?" I know it was Font something.
Once he demanded that he would eat a Christmas dinner only if it would be served from new abbey kitchens and told his workmen to hurry. The kitchens collapsed as soon as the meal was over.
― Wheal Dream, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 12:42 (thirteen years ago) link
here are two images of my own to replace the hotlink denied white void in my post. St. James at Lancaut:http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbzf29CBxH1qdu6dfo1_r1_500.jpghttp://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbzffrDny11qdu6dfo1_500.jpg
― boss margins, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
No Skara Brae no credibility!
http://www.thealsops.net/pictures/2007082421/IMG_0943.JPG
― Wheal Dream, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
This is a very cool thread.
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Needs more fogous IMO
http://www.geniusloci.co.uk/images/fogou7.jpg
― Wheal Dream, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I must have walked pretty much RIGHT PAST this one without even noticing on my way to Zennor.
http://www.yourlocalweb.co.uk/images/pictures/00/09/zennor-quoit-865.jpg
― Wheal Dream, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I should probably know the difference between a dolmen
http://www.lookaroundireland.com/armagh/images/Ballykeel_Dolmen.JPG
and an QUOIT
http://www.historic-cornwall.org.uk/a2m/neolithic/chambered_tomb/trethevy_quoit/trethevy_quoit_gcs11689.jpg
Is Quoit just one of those weird Cornish or Southwestern words that they decided to call something which everyone else calls a Dolmen in the rest of the world?
― Wheal Dream, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
the Agora at Miletus, Anatolia (SW Turkey)
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/7113/turkeymiletusmiletossun.jpg
― lonely is as lonely does, lonely is an eeyore (unregistered), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Can I just say that as a Scrabble player, I'm very happy that quoits exist.
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i56.tinypic.com/2lo3jio.jpg
erected by the 2012 Mayan Death Cult Dan Brown Templar NSDAP Atlantean Freemasonic Extraterrestrial Illuminati, according to the History Channel
― lonely is as lonely does, lonely is an eeyore (unregistered), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i55.tinypic.com/6pqm4n.jpg
"The Secretary"
― lonely is as lonely does, lonely is an eeyore (unregistered), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.students.sbc.edu/drahman08/images/8.800px-Knossos_bull.jpg
Knossos
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, so I get to be first with Baalbek?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ee/Baalbek-Jupiter.jpg/449px-Baalbek-Jupiter.jpg
And Tyre:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/TyreAlMina.jpg/800px-TyreAlMina.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Tyre_Triumphal_Arch.jpg
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Rose MaCauley got there before ILE did:
http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/x2/x11546.jpg
― Aimless, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
A stand in the Hippodrome at Tyre:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2180/2560203957_2ec62fe301.jpgTerraces at Tyre by gordontour, on Flickr
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I'M IN UR ZIGGURAT, DOIN' ZIGGA-ZIGG-AAAH!
http://www.atlastours.net/iraq/ur_ziggurat.jpg
― Wheal Dream, Thursday, 18 November 2010 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
That one doesn't look very ruined -- looks ready to move right in!
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Thursday, 18 November 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Fairly certain it's been extensively restored. It spent much of its history looking more like...
http://www.odysseyadventures.ca/articles/ur%20of%20the%20chaldees/ur02_ziggurat02.jpg
― Wheal Dream, Thursday, 18 November 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_d8lD9vT0YjY/SaxHbtq5D1I/AAAAAAAAACc/SGJaho02q0E/s320/gobeklitepe_nov08_4.jpghttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/_d8lD9vT0YjY/SaxHbtq5D1I/AAAAAAAAACc/SGJaho02q0E/s320/gobeklitepe_nov08_4.jpg
some more gobelki tepe as seen upthread. gosh, this thing truly is fascinating and in the sense of speculation on it's age & origin, surely it's the worlds O.G ruin. We've tended to chronologise civilisation with agriculturally catalysed systems as base, taking as tidy fact that settlement = more time & energy to practise capabilities not immediately essential towards survival. that type of environmental automation didn't suddenly make people smart, it only offered an alternative system.as far as it's been explained to me, sedentism didnt directly succeed nomadism, and in some cases i'm sure offered a more productive existence than some early attempts at the ol' settle & build. these guys were nomadic hunters, but their landscape was far more domesticated & systemised than we may be able to project. the acceleration of knowledge & technology has been going since we formed a skeleton, so no doubt when the ecological going was good in the fertile crescent, people learned some v. important business about how things work. these were clusters of people living off the earth learning of the conditions of things. time, seasons, ecology and how things were ordered. one thing i love thinking about are the nature of the images. beasts, animals, creatures- things that move and that also, most importantly, die. they're being eternalised with stone, attaching the ephemeral to the eternal. at the height of my obsession with this stuff the phrase 'establishing permanence' kept going round my head, which could be applied towards the c. 11th century norman/benedictine structures itt, such as tintern, where invading powers saught to make a very visible ploy towards 'societal ordinance'. nobody since the romans had used stone in such a way to establish a presence in the landscape that says "uh get used to it. i am literally a part of this place now"tldr more cool pictures pls
― boss margins, Thursday, 18 November 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_d8lD9vT0YjY/Sawhu1VrX9I/AAAAAAAAACM/K_IMVbuhsgQ/s320/gobeklitepe_nov08_520.jpghttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/_d8lD9vT0YjY/SawVGWfTDzI/AAAAAAAAAB8/c80pjRywWSw/s320/gobeklitepe_nov08_2.jpg
― boss margins, Thursday, 18 November 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
T-DOORS!!!!!! Those are in Anasazi buildings too!
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Thursday, 18 November 2010 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh Ive been to all those native american ruins elvis posted before the thread break.. thanks dad for all those awesome summer vacations
― strongly recommend. unless you're a bitch (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 18 November 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Man, if you want some ruin pr0n in your life, I highly recommend "RUIN LUST" currently at the Tate Britain:
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/ruin-lust
Pretty much starts with some epic John Martin ruins, your usual Tintern Abbey and mouldering Coliseum paintings and works its way through RUINED ANTICKUITIES and Soane's ruin of the Bank of England all the way up to Savage Messiah and the Wilson Twins' WWII bunkers.
(My favourite bit, though, to be honest, was reading all the Savage Messiah and Owen Hatherley stuff on the reading table outside.)
― BLEEEEEEE Monday (Branwell Bell), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Aerial_cutaway_view_of_Soane
― Sébastien, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link
That's a broken link?
― BLEEEEEEE Monday (Branwell Bell), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link
ITT, ancient LINKS, ruined LINKS, oh look on my works, ye mighty and despair!
(but tbf the pic is showing up on my screen)
― Jibe, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 17:03 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/g2TyCMs.jpg
Stelae field in Axum, Ethiopia. And underneath...
http://i.imgur.com/6Af7NAK.jpg
― ogmor, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 17:50 (ten years ago) link
Ethiopia must be one the countries w/ the richest scope for archaeology & Axum in particular is incredible.
http://i.imgur.com/ByXPPWY.jpg
Tomb of Negus/King Kaleb, Axum
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4091/5171866714_fa7cbde310_z.jpg
Palace near Dongar/Dungur, outside of Axum, claimed locally to be the palace of Makeda aka the Queen of Sheba
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4149/5171266865_e6c0605b90_z.jpg
Nearby stelae field named after notorious scourge of Ethiopian history, Queen Gudit, who laid waste to Axum & led to the capital being moved to Lalibela.
http://www.yukiba.com/upl/server/uploads/1272562563-gondar-Ethiopia-Africa-Gondar.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/4PYFtpM.jpg
Palace grounds at Gondar
― ogmor, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
http://nomadatelier.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/abandoned-town.jpg
http://cdn.roughguides.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/42-28094525-1680x1050.jpg
Djado, Niger
― ogmor, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/52461989.jpg
Kerma, Sudan
http://www.thisotherworld.co.uk/sudan415.JPG
Suakin, Sudan
http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000pA9Pd8Z0pfQ/fit=1000x750/LFR1318.jpg
Old Ottoman building in Suakin
― ogmor, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b3/96/88/b3968886991de7f1cfdda8900e29957c.jpg
Naqa, Sudan
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/970139.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7128/7075874373_0afc83919b.jpg
http://www.keyafrica.com/images/userimages/4bcc4dcd-a14f-40c9-bb25-b6de984382d4.jpg
Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania
― ogmor, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.ondaverde.it/images/paestum.jpg
Paestum, Μεγάλη Ἑλλάς
― già, ya, déjà, ja, yeah, whatever... (Michael White), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 19:58 (ten years ago) link
Damn, Ethiopian ruins are some fine ruins, but that ruined town of Djado is like something out of a dream! There's something almost alive about those tiny jumbled dead windows watching you.
Some fine contributions to the thread, ogmor.
― BLEEEEEEE Monday (Branwell Bell), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
Ty Branwell.
http://www.innovativeethnographies.net/sites/default/files/kaoleruins.JPG
http://www.traveladventures.org/countries/tanzania/images/kaole-ruins11.jpg
Kaole, Tanzania
http://www.orexca.com/images/fotogallery/img_full/1326442327_9763.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Bibi-Khanym_Mosque_%281905-1915%29.jpg/691px-Bibi-Khanym_Mosque_%281905-1915%29.jpg
Bibi-Khanym Mosque, Samarkand, before it got restored. The latter photo is one of Prokudin-Gorsky's early colour photos from 1907
http://madventure.travel/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Cappadocian-cave-dwellings-Turkey.jpg
http://thelongestwayhome.zenfolio.com/img/v2/p606862019.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/View_of_Cappadocia_edit.jpg/800px-View_of_Cappadocia_edit.jpg
Not all ruined, but the Cappadocian cave dwellings are v fantastical, something of Gaudi about them.
― ogmor, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 22:02 (ten years ago) link
OMG! The Cappadocian Fairy Chimney houses are some of my favourite things in the world, ever! Not even ruins, but still have that "is this a real place? did this simply grow from the rocks?" feeling about them.
― BLEEEEEEE Monday (Branwell Bell), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 06:00 (ten years ago) link
How can you not want to live in these things?
http://travelastounder.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/fairy-chimneys-3.jpg
http://photos.travellerspoint.com/227302/large_Some_fairy.._Turkey.jpg
But, also, LOL:
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/pictures/2009/7/2/1246552996440/Turkey-Cappadocia-Love-Va-001.jpg
― BLEEEEEEE Monday (Branwell Bell), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 06:08 (ten years ago) link
Huh, didn't realise Ledge went to St Andrews, which is my home (and one of my Alma Maters).
― The Whittrick and Puddock (dowd), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 08:02 (ten years ago) link
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6014/5999724919_dd73259534_o.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/20110419_Monastery_of_Hripsimian_Virgins_Ani_Turkey.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-zOrAL1V5Jg/TShk2x7kWJI/AAAAAAAAJBc/mv5Iswh1T1o/s640/ani+turkey+armenia+turkish+armenian+city+2.jpg
Ani, abandoned Armenian city just inside modern Turkey
― ogmor, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
there are so many gorgeous rock-hewn buildings or settlements built into the rock (dogon villages in mali, guyaju ruins in beijing, lalibela in ethiopia, elvis posted mesa verde &c. upthread), feel like a lot of ruin lust comes from a troglodyte love of stone
― ogmor, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
Troglodyte love of stones vs atavistic love of treehouses: FITE!
― Branwell Bell, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 21:42 (ten years ago) link
http://cdn.roughguides.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/12.thebes-C87Y6M-1680x1050.jpg
thebes
― ogmor, Monday, 7 April 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
http://d1vmp8zzttzftq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Passageway-in-the-Great-Enclosure-in-Great-Zimbabwe-Africa.jpg
great zimbabwe
― ogmor, Monday, 7 April 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
Awesome. Feel like this thread could do with a lot more Egyptian ruins, TBH.
Ur-ruins and ruins of Ur. (Wait actually Ur is nowhere near Egypt, was it? Euphrates more like.)
― Branwell Bell, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
the pre-columbian americas own this thread, that's just me though.
saqsayhuaman near cusco, peru:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Walls_at_Sacsayhuaman.jpg
― marcos, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
another:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Sacsahuaman_wall3.jpg
― marcos, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
ollantaytambo, another inca site. these monoliths are about 12 feet tall. the spanish tried to destroy them but they were too big:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Ollantaytambo_Monolithen.jpg
― marcos, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
and machu picchu, which everyone knows the majesty of:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Machu_Picchu_early_morning.JPGmost amazing place i've ever been
― marcos, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
teotihuacan about an hour outside of mexico city - these pyramids are basically about the size of the more famous egyptian pyramids:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/View_from_Pyramide_de_la_luna.jpg
― marcos, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
another: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Pyramid_of_the_sun_teotihuacan_with_crowd.jpg
― marcos, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link