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Four Barrows briefly shot to fame with an audience of 9 million in 1971 when Prof. Horner broke through the burial chamber on Beltane eve, live on BBC3. It's all true. - 39 years ago, the village of Aldbourne was transformed into 'Devils End' and became the setting for a classic instalment of cult BBC TV show Doctor Who, staring Jon Pertwee as the Time Lord in the five-part story, "The Daemons". The Doctor travels to Devil's End to investigate the ancient secret of the Devil's Hump, (the first barrow in the four barrow group), a mysterious burial mound. The Doctor's nemesis, The Master, is also there, masquerading as the local Vicar. Using the powers of black magic, he hopes to invoke the powers of the satyr-like alien Azal the Daemon and take over the world. Various references on this story are quoted on Wikipedia such as; Jon Pertwee stated numerous times over the years that this was his favourite Doctor Who serial. The incantation that the Master uses in summoning Azal is actually the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" said backwards. The Doctor uses the words of a Venusian lullaby to ward off Bok, Azal's helper, singing the words to a tune which is actually the Christmas carol "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen". The clip of the Brigadier's helicopter blowing up as it crashes into the heat shield is borrowed from the James Bond movie From Russia with Love. Read more about all this on the links listed below http://www.doctorwholocations.net/locations/fourbarrows?from=aldbourne http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/wiltshire/hi/tv_and_radio/newsid_8342000/8342659.stm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daemons As a footnote, The TV production team did actually dig a small way into the barrow without permission or any supervision. Roy Canon, the Wiltshire county archaeologist was furious and almost sued the BBC for damage to a scheduled monument. Since then the rules regarding filming at such sites have been strictly followed and no such know incident has occurred again. |
Posted by Chance24th April 2010ce Edited 24th April 2010ce |
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Aldbourne Four Barrows. - Sugar hill, Aldbourne near Hungerford. Bronze age barrow cemetary 2500 - 1500 BC. The contents of these Barrows are now in the British Museum. Three of the four barrows are of the Wessex bell type of barrow these are eight to ten feet high. The fourth is an ordinary bowl shaped mound, also ten feet high. They were excavated by W. Greenwell near the end of the 19th century. Two of the bell barrows contained cremations and the third a skeleton. Other finds included amber, beads, flint arrowheads, fragments of greenstone axe and a grooved dagger. The bowl barrow had a cremation in a burial cist covered with four sarsen stones. The famous Aldbourne barrow is at the foot of this hill in the field by the A419 just north of the wood. It is a bowl about 100 feet across by six feet high. The mound provided the British Museum with its Aldbourne cup, an incense cup with lid, and two bronze awls, a bronze dagger and beads of faience, amber, fossils and shale. from: http://www.wiltshire-web.co.uk/history/barrows.htm |
Posted by wysefool15th April 2008ce |
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The Dæmons - Doctor Who episode from 1971Doctor Who science fiction TV series from 1971 featuring a fictitious excavation of the Four Barrows group, renamed "The Devil's Hump" See Misc. above for more details |
Posted by Chance 24th April 2010ce |
Stone-circles.orgnice piccy of the aldbourne cup found in the barrows. also http://www.stone-circles.org.uk/stone/images/incense%20cup2.jpg another piccy of the cup |
Posted by wysefool 15th April 2008ce Edited 15th April 2008ce |
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