About
Stone Temple Gardening
Landscape, method, fieldwork, writing, ancient monuments, movement, horizons, archaeology, myth and perception
Landscapes, Myths, and Sacred Geometry
Landscape First, Monument Second
Stone Temple Gardening explores ancient monuments through the landscapes that shaped them. The stones matter, but they are rarely the beginning of the story. Routes, ridges, rivers, horizons, outcrops, thresholds and lines of movement often come first. The monument fixes something that the landscape has already begun to reveal.
I am Dr Alexander Peach, a historian by training and an independent writer on prehistoric monuments, sacred landscapes, archaeoastronomy and the sensory experience of ancient places. Stone Temple Gardening combines field observation, photography, folklore, careful speculation and landscape archaeology to ask how ancient people may have encountered the living world before stone made those encounters permanent.
This site is not about reducing ancient monuments to isolated objects. It is about seeing them in relation to place: the hill before the circle, the route before the chamber, the horizon before the alignment, the landscape before the monument.