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feshie geldie interaction 157 x 60cm (dibond/matt ultra)
A walk up the river Geldie towards the Feshie, following in the footsteps of the Mesolithics and camping where they set up their camp.
Mesolithic folk
tracked these waterways
into the icy hills
leaving traces of quartz and flints
at the Chest of Dee
and Caochanan Ruadha, Red Burnie,
by the Feshie/Geldie watershed
lithics in river silt
beneath the peat
I follow the Geldie Burn
Red Wells spring
the clear shining one
oozes iron red mire
over the track
cross the stags burns
Alt Damhaidh Beag
Alt Damhaidh Mòr
Allt Leum an Easain
the waterfall
leaps
down Ben Bhrotain
Carn Cloich-mhuillinn
is Carn nan Clach Mhuillinn
hill of the millstones
the path dwindles
lost to bog
and howe and knowe
through the moine of Geldie
they camped by Caochanan Ruadha
on this wee mound
one post marks the spot
a single loose turf
records the excavation
lithics and quartz
burnt yew twigs
for a bow
or toxic hunting poison
deer graze
in the forest that was
on Caochan Ruadha Mór
I burn some yew
flints
quartz
water
yew
us
made
in cosmic
furnaces
they saw our skies
we see theirs
in the light
that left
a distant star cluster
by Cassiopeia
in the Mesolithic era
back to waterlines
