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Battledown Camp / Fieldnotes by CARL
'Disputed Antiquity' sounds fair to me. Thanks for the info TSC.	Posted by CARL 16 May 12ce
Hambledon / News by drewbhoy
I'm fascinated by the quote "The man who ran these celebrations would have been very powerful, it is clear." Why this conclusion?	Posted by BuckyE 16 May 12ce
Broch of Borwick / Image by scubi63
Cheers tsc, it is perched on the edge of a cliff and a bit of a trundle to get to it, but both the walk and the scenery when you get there are so worth it. :o)	Posted by scubi63 15 May 12ce
Broch of Borwick / Image by scubi63
Lovely set of pics of superb-looking site Scubi.	Posted by thesweetcheat 15 May 12ce
Pen-y-Beacon / Image by thesweetcheat
Brilliant! However, if you had taken a table, I'm guessing you wouldn't just have left it behind apres meal? I don't think the one in the picture will survive, it's already looking pretty sorry and it's a wind and rain swept place.	Posted by thesweetcheat 15 May 12ce
Battledown Camp / Fieldnotes by CARL
Interesting. It does look (from Pastscape) as though it was previously considered as a hillfort but has now been assigned to being natural. Perhaps the map you saw was before that change of view point. I'll have a look at some of the older large scale OS maps when I get a chance. There's no mention of it any of the Cotswold archaeology books I have. As the surroundings have been fairly thoroughly developed, I guess Iron Age finds would have showed up at the time? I know here were IA finds at Arle Court in Cheltenham. As a hillfort it would be rather dominated by Cleeve Hill above, especially with the Cleeve Cloud fort practically hanging over it. Could be a settlement site though. [Eds, perhaps a "disputed antiquity"?]	Posted by thesweetcheat 15 May 12ce
Pen-y-Beacon / Image by thesweetcheat
I'm afraid I can only applaud. They'd certainly be wanting a sit down with their pints after carting it up so high. Those bench things can be very heavy, particularly them ones made from them slow growing, dense South American hardwoods. About ten years ago, before ticking off my last mainland Munro, I prepared a gourmet meal and then drove it North 200 miles. I parked up at Kinlochhourn and hiked into Barrisdale Bay bothy where I reconnoitred with a climbing pal. We then climbed Ladhar Bheinn (Scotland's most westerly mainland Munro). On the summit I re-heated the meal on my methylated spirit burner and we dined, seated on two collapse-able camping chairs which I'd strapped to my rucksack. http://www.lopra.org.uk/images/coast-to-coast/NE-from-Ladhar-Bheinn.jpg After this fine meal washed down with a still-chilled Sauvignon Blanc and looking out at one of the finest views on Earth, my pal commented that a table would have been nice. The devil is in the detail.	Posted by Howburn Digger 15 May 12ce
Battledown Camp / Fieldnotes by CARL
It is shown as a hillfort on an old map i came across - perhaps it was wrong? I checked the E.H. website but could find no information. As I said I couldn't get close enough to see if anything survives on the ground. The site is on a low hill in an otherwise flat surrounding.	Posted by CARL 15 May 12ce
Chauvet Cave / News by drewbhoy
mmm cave art. crosses the millennia in a way no chipped tool or bit of bone can don't you think. And where are all the wonky examples? everything in the Chauvet cave seemed to be amazing. It's enough to make you formulate some controversial theory about noble savages with uncluttered artistic eyes?	Posted by Rhiannon 15 May 12ce
Chauvet Cave / News by drewbhoy
Bakers gloves, sorry Rhiannon. Spied the article and put it up. Thanks for the other articles, interesting reading.	Posted by drewbhoy 14 May 12ce
Battledown Camp / Fieldnotes by CARL
I didn't know this was a hillfort! Where did you find the info about it? According to the Battledown Estate website the earliest inhabitants were Saxon: http://www.battledown.co.uk/history.asp Pastscape has it as a natural feature: http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=117691&sort=4&search=all&criteria=battledown&rational=q&recordsperpage=10#aRt	Posted by thesweetcheat 14 May 12ce
Aldourie / Image by thesweetcheat
Nice spot, but it was pouring with rain!	Posted by thesweetcheat 14 May 12ce
Chauvet Cave / News by drewbhoy
That's actually 1994 not 1899! I thought the cave bear dating had already proved they were that old? http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028093.900-bear-dna-is-clue-to-age-of-chauvet-cave-art.html but I suppose it's a different method of proving it isn't it. And I saw this recently, that paintings in the Spanish Nerja caves might be even older http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21458-first-neanderthal-cave-paintings-discovered-in-spain.html but maybe that's someone's wishful thinking, they've not been properly dated yet.	Posted by Rhiannon 14 May 12ce
The Bridestones / Fieldnotes by Ravenfeather
Oops better get my history books out again!	Posted by Ravenfeather 14 May 12ce
Aldourie / Image by thesweetcheat
Ages since I was there, good to see it's still in fine shape. Cheers SC, nice scenery as well, cracking!	Posted by drewbhoy 13 May 12ce
Broomend / Image by thesweetcheat
I never touched it, it was like that when we got there.	Posted by thesweetcheat 13 May 12ce
Caisteal An Dunriachaidh / Image by thesweetcheat
It feels more remote than it is, really. It's quite close to Dores (good bus service, they hold the Rock Ness festival there) and not far from the road. Great fort though, think you'd like it. Sadly the rest of the walk was less enjoyable, lots of sleety snow and increasingly futile cairn hunting.	Posted by thesweetcheat 13 May 12ce
Caisteal An Dunriachaidh / Image by thesweetcheat
This one looks fairly remote and hard to get to, good show.	Posted by postman 13 May 12ce
The Bridestones / Fieldnotes by Ravenfeather
Whilst I can't be 100% sure, i'm still fairly certain it wasn't the beaker folk that built it either.	Posted by postman 13 May 12ce
Ardristan / Image by stonemad
Love that, must have missed it when first posted.	Posted by thesweetcheat 13 May 12ce
Rhue / Image by thelonious
That's a great picture. Perhaps all hut circles should be flagged like this.	Posted by thesweetcheat 13 May 12ce
Cleeve Common cross dyke / Fieldnotes by CARL
To be honest, it's a miracle it's survived at all, with the golf course "landscaping". Still, it's a good 1,000 years (or more) older than Offa's Dyke and there are plenty of bits of that that are less impressive!	Posted by thesweetcheat 13 May 12ce
Turrerich / Image by tiompan
Thanks for the comment HD , bringing hapiness or inspiration is a great result . Aye was it's a great wee area HD , dunno if you knew about http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/14220/pitmackie.html . The next few years will see a bit of change with the Beauly -Denny power lines coming through .	Posted by tiompan 11 May 12ce
Turrerich / Image by tiompan
Thank you Mr T... this image is inspiring. The peeled back turf, the splash of water on stone revealing the magic hidden underneath. It was stumbling across some of your photos on BRAC years back that fired my interest in Rock Art... Forty years ago I was running in a pair of Woolworths sandshoes across that green field, catching trout in Loch Freuchie and wishing I could live forever at Pitmackie (just out of shot). The folks we knew at Pitmackie left there three decades ago and Woolworths is no more. I still catch trout - but now I seek out this stuff too. More power to your boots sir!	Posted by Howburn Digger 11 May 12ce
Cleeve Common cross dyke / Fieldnotes by CARL
Funny you should mention golf balls Carl, but when I was on Emblance Downs walking back toward King Arthur's Hall from the Leaze stone circle area I picked up a brand spanking new Ultra 'Metal Matrix' golf ball. You'd have to be off your (golf) trolley to be practising out there and be expecting to find the balls afterwards in that wilderness!!	Posted by Sanctuary 11 May 12ce