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The Field of Doors — real places & people

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Programmatic cover — Wessex chalk field with crop-circle geometry. Generated by design/generatemissingcovers.py (repo root design/).

DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Avebury — the great henge the village grew up inside.

Avebury — the great henge the village grew up inside.
Avebury — the great henge the village grew up inside.

Rxfelix, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Silbury Hill — the largest prehistoric mound in Europe, raised for a reason we still don't have.

Silbury Hill — the largest prehistoric mound in Europe, raised for a reason we still don't have.
Silbury Hill — the largest prehistoric mound in Europe, raised for a reason we still don't have.

Dickbauch, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

West Kennet Long Barrow — the chalk holding its dead five thousand years.

West Kennet Long Barrow — the chalk holding its dead five thousand years.
West Kennet Long Barrow — the chalk holding its dead five thousand years.

Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Wiltshire chalk downland — the canvas the patterns appear on.

The Wiltshire chalk downland — the canvas the patterns appear on.
The Wiltshire chalk downland — the canvas the patterns appear on.

Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A Wiltshire chalk hill-figure — the land already written on by hand.

A Wiltshire chalk hill-figure — the land already written on by hand.
A Wiltshire chalk hill-figure — the land already written on by hand.

Schildiecom, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Things of wonder (made by hand)

A crop formation in the Wessex wheat — craft, hoax, or the few that aren't either.

A crop formation in the Wessex wheat — craft, hoax, or the few that aren't either.
A crop formation in the Wessex wheat — craft, hoax, or the few that aren't either.

Croppy Peace Sign, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Durrington Walls — a buried super-henge most eyes walk straight past.

Durrington Walls — a buried super-henge most eyes walk straight past.
Durrington Walls — a buried super-henge most eyes walk straight past.

Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Barbury Castle — an Iron Age hillfort over the same chalk.

Barbury Castle — an Iron Age hillfort over the same chalk.
Barbury Castle — an Iron Age hillfort over the same chalk.

Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Crop-marks — the land writing its buried history in the wheat when the drought comes.

Crop-marks — the land writing its buried history in the wheat when the drought comes.
Crop-marks — the land writing its buried history in the wheat when the drought comes.

Jacques DASSIÉ, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons


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