The title of Cóilín O’Connell’s (Dublin, Ireland, 1990) installation, Blood From A Stone, means “to make someone give or tell you something, when it is extremely difficult because of the character or mood of the person or organisation you are dealing with.” In the video there are numerous Neolithic stone monuments that dot the landscape; the stones have integrated in peculiar ways to their modern suburban surroundings. Following in the mould of obsessive UFO enthusiasts, amateur archaeologists and treasure hunters with a desire to extract explanations, value and meaning an archive has been amassed. A series of scans gleaned from the stones with a portable document scanner have been gathered from sites visits. Images from a peculiar book on the topic feature a recurring unnamed accomplice adjacent to the stones for scale. Some stones have become part of distorted mythologies or have been sprayed with graffiti.