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Rudston Monolith (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
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Posted by spencer22nd April 2019ce |
Kirkheads (Round Barrow(s)) — News |
Ancient Carved 'Drums' Give Exact Stonehenge Measurements, Say ArchaeologistsA set of highly decorated chalk cylinders, carved in Britain more than 4,000 years ago and known as the Folkton drums, could be ancient replicas of measuring devices used for laying out prehistoric monuments like Stonehenge, archaeologists say... https://www.livescience.com/64603-ancient-carved-drums-measure-stonehenge.html |
Posted by moss4th February 2019ce |
Star Carr (Mesolithic site) — Links |
White Rose University PressMarvellously, you can read online or download for free, two brand new books about the site that analyse Chantel Conneller, Nicky Milner and Barry Taylor's excavations between 2003-15. Volume one is called 'A persistent place in a changing world' and the second is 'Studies in technology, subsistence and environment'. The site was occupied / used for about 800 years. The first people there deposited worked wood, articulated animal bone and flint tools into the lake. The next period was the main phase of occupation, in which large timber platforms were made at the lake's edge, and items were still being deposited into it. And in the last phase both the dry land and the wetland margins were still being used, "often for craft activities," and making axes and tools - and the oldest known British Mesolithic art - a shale bead - was found there. I love a shale bead, me. They're in chapter 33 of the second volume. The famous antler frontlets are in chapter 26. |
Posted by Rhiannon7th June 2018ce |
Rudston Monolith (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images |
 
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Posted by Zeb 20th April 2018ce |
Willy Howe (Artificial Mound) — Fieldnotes |
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I've been to the Rudston monolith a couple of times but never made it to Willy Howe before. It's in the big orange book so it's on the list. I'm killing two birds with one car journey here, been to the Bridestones, now it's time for Willy, or William as his mother demands. I've heard of unhelpful farming types round here, so it's with some trepidation that I leave the daughter in the car not far at all from the mound, right next to a sign saying private road keep out. My first impression was, wow how big is that, quite big is the answer. Clearly the best time of year to see it properly is now, ie February. I correctly align the mound in between the farm and myself and assail the mound. I'm getting a bit tired of calling it a mound, it sounds far too simple, the countryside is truly cluttered with what the map calls tumuluseses, but this isn't one? Has Willy never been properly investigated? I shall refer to the mound just as Willy. Having climbed to the top of Willy, I can see the two scoops taken out of Willy, the scoops are very big, rendering the true height of Willy open to question, has material gone or just been piled up to the sides. All over are small chips and lumps of white stone, is it chalk or limestone ? One side of Willy has blankets of Snowdrops over it, surely spring can't be too much further away. I quite liked it here. |
Posted by postman4th March 2018ce |
Ba'l Hill (Artificial Mound) — Images |
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Posted by postman 18th February 2018ce |
Willy Howe (Artificial Mound) — Images |
  
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Posted by postman 18th February 2018ce |
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