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Boadicea's Grave Round Barrow(s) |
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London Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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The British Museum - Ice Age art exhibitionIce Age art - arrival of the modern mind An exhibition 40,000 years in the making 7 February - 26 May 2013 Discover masterpieces from the last Ice Age drawn from across Europe in this ground-breaking show... continues... |
Posted by baza26th November 2012ce |
Drowned Landscapes exhibition at Royal Society 3 - 8th JulyA huge area of land which was swallowed up into the North Sea thousands of years ago has been recreated and put on display by scientists. Doggerland was an area between Northern Scotland, Denmark and the Channel Islands. It was believed to have been home to tens of thousands of people before it disappeared underwater... continues... |
Posted by juamei3rd July 2012ce Edited 3rd July 2012ce |
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London built on the blood of slaves This very interesting article was posted by Digital Digging on Facebook. The Romans as cruel oppressors seems to be written out of history yet totally believable. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24021618-london-built-with-the-blood-of-british-slaves.do |
Posted by tjj16th December 2011ce |
7,000-year-old timbers found beneath MI6 Thames headquartersArchaeologists hail oldest wooden structure ever found on river, despite security services' armed response to researchers. When MI6 set up home on the banks of the Thames one secret escaped its watchful eyes... continues... |
Posted by baza 7th January 2011ce |
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MUSEUM OF LONDON - new galleries The new galleries are open. The London before London display is great. New online fabulous collection of images of the masses of prehistoric artefacts found in the area: http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/Collections/Prehistoric1700/Prehistoric.htm |
Posted by nix14th May 2010ce |
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British Museum The new prehistoric galleries are open - a limited amount of lovely things on show although sadly they seem smaller than they did previously. |
Posted by tuesday2nd January 2008ce |
'Stone Age Survival' talk at London's FESTIVAL OF LIFE this weekend........with HUGH NEWMAN - Sunday 5.30pm a multimedia presentation at The FESTIVAL OF LIFE, St Paul's Steiner Project 1 St Paul's Road, Islington, London N1 2QH STONE AGE SURVIVAL: Earth Energies, Megaliths & Ancient Nutrition Hugh Newman has studied Naturopathic nutrition and alternative therapies for seven years... continues... |
Posted by Megalithomania31st August 2007ce Edited 1st September 2007ce |
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This newish exhibition at The Museum of London has an amazing collection of mesolithic, neolithic, bronze and iron age artefacts - together lots of very good information on the periods and the history of the Thames Valley and the area of the city in particular. See: http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/archive/lbl/default.asp |
Posted by nix 31st January 2009ce Edited 31st January 2009ce |
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london under the dust we walk with the past though arches and down ancient roads the past, our past is not just out there but beneath our feet around our ears beneath our noses john dee and canary wharf makes sense to me |
Posted by mindweed 29th April 2002ce |
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London Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Links |
Vintry and Dowgates Ward ClubInteresting article on the facts vs speculation and folklore surrounding the London Stone, by John Clark, formerly Senior Curator (Medieval) at the Museum of London. |
Posted by Rhiannon3rd April 2013ce |
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Posted by texlahoma23rd March 2012ce |
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I visited the Stone on the 19th March 2012 CE. It's now very dimly lit. The entire building empty, a To Let sign hangs from the building. Through the window to the stone I could see abandoned display and merchandising displays, perhaps left behind by the sports shop that last occupied this space. The stone deserves more. Opposite the space aged facade of the new loo Cannon St station, mood lit in comparison to the empty and forgotten space that the stone resides in on the other side of the road. There are barriers and road works currently slightly dividing a symbol of the ancient past and the modern reality of modern commuters passing buy with take away coffee and laptops unaware of the almost hidden stone. If you stop though, even just for a second then you can still spend time at the stone, consider it's past, hope for a better custodian than an empty shop space to let. If the remainder of the stone is still beneath ground level and you believe in the ley line theories by Iain Sinclair and others then this is still a magical place, albeit one that requires as healthy dose of imagination and romantic thought. |
Posted by texlahoma 23rd March 2012ce |
London Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) — News |
On the move again?"It now appears the the Stone will be on its travels once again, although this time not across the road, but a few doors along. Diamond Geezer, one of the prolific London bloggers, has been delving into the planning application from the owners of the building where the stone now resides:" More here - http://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/the-london-stone-on-the-move-again/ |
Posted by Littlestone15th November 2011ce |
Vauxhall Cross (Ancient Trackway) — Miscellaneous |
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The dig is here in their Bronze Age Compilation: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/time-team-digs/4od#2927032 |
Posted by nix 8th March 2011ce |
The Clerk's Well (Sacred Well) — Fieldnotes |
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If you wish to inspect the well at close quarter. Contact the local historian at Finsbury Library. They have a key and will open the space by arrangement. There is little about any pre-historic provenance but the little exhibition next to the well is interesting. The room housing the well is suffering from subsidence and will undergo restoration and be closed for a period soon. |
Posted by nix 14th May 2010ce |
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