Matt Potter<p>I’ve followed this woodcut vibe by hitting the woods, hills and Mesolithic flint quarries of the Chilterns to see if I can get some folk-horror frissons. The third photograph is from Monks Risborough - the top of a hill on which a bronze-age barrow contains a distinguished tomb. On the side of the hill I am looking over is the gigantic, carved chalk shape, perhaps 200 feet high and visible from miles around - of an inverted cross. It is thought to be more recent - 18th century villagers having carved it to cover some earlier design. What was so shocking that it had to be obliterated by an upside-down cruxifix shape? The wind whistles and kestrels hover in place. Then, on the way back, I met this lil’ tree defying the gloom by going out in a blaze of glory, and I am 100% here for its 900-foot attitude. <a href="https://c.im/tags/folkhorror" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>folkhorror</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/invertedcross" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>invertedcross</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/demonology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>demonology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/chilterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>chilterns</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/buckinghamshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>buckinghamshire</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hillfigure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hillfigure</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/bronzeage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bronzeage</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/neolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>neolithic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ancient" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ancient</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hillfort" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hillfort</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/barrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>barrow</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/countryside" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>countryside</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/autumnvibes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>autumnvibes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ghoststories" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ghoststories</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MRJames" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MRJames</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/gothic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gothic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ruralgothic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ruralgothic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hillfigures" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hillfigures</span></a></p>