The Ducklington Beads : 無料・フリー素材/写真
The Ducklington Beads / Giles Watson's poetry and prose
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | The Ducklington BeadsThe skeletons are arranged like scribbles,Skulls facing eastwards, disarticulatedEchoes of the foetus-curve: a boy, agedFifteen, front teeth absent; a young woman,Five feet high; a child of three, in fragmentaryState, sex indeterminate. They have beenBuried with buckets and spindles, a beaver’sTooth clenched in gold, fragments of bronze.She wears a necklace. We strip it from her –Mount it in parts in different museums.Beautiful beads: how these were treasured!Count them: eleven. Five like flesh, streakedWith fat, cured on a smoky fire. Two are whiteWith spots of ochre. One is sky, and clouds –Another bright as saffron from a rare flower’sAnther. This drab one is green – as witheredLeaves in winter, covered with mould. The lastIs all eye and lid and spiral, with a watchingYellow pupil. Watch us out of the dank ground;Ward off the prying eye. Our words are scribbles.Poem by Giles Watson, 2012. The beads from the 7th Century Romano-British Ducklington burial can be seen in the Vale and Downland Museum in Wantage. An archaeological report on the finds can be seen at oxoniensia.org/volumes/1975/chambers1.pdf |
| 撮影日 | 2012-08-21 14:30:38 |
| 撮影者 | Giles Watson's poetry and prose , Oxfordshire, England |
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| 撮影地 | Ducklington, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | PENTAX Optio WG-1 , PENTAX |
| 露出 | 0.017 sec (1/60) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.3 |