Round Towers

I took these photos today, whilst on an excursion with Dave the Dan. The tower of this church at Rougham in Norfolk is around a thousand years old. It is largely built from the most common locally available building material, flint. This church is still kept 'alive' as a centre for worship and gathering for the local community. However, I think of it as living in other senses.

You see the flint itself was once part of a living creature. Many millions of years ago this area was submerged under a tropical sea. Flint is a chemical sedimentary rock that forms from the remains of silica-bodied organisms (marine sponges) which sank to the sea-bed.

This knowledge also alters the time-period within which we frame this building. Historical time, is but a blink in the vast span of geological events. That's a fuckin amazing thought ain't it kids!