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South-West World Heritage Sites join forces for interactive sustainable transport mapFor those who enjoy playing with maps and sustainable transport....... Four of the South-West's most breathtaking nature areas, including the famous Jurrasic Coast, are hoping to make travel to the heritage sites easier than ever with a new website... continues... |
Posted by moss8th January 2010ce |
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Glastonbury Tor (Sacred Hill) — Fieldnotes |
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The most amazing thing I have ever seen was at Glastonbury Tor. Myself and my partner visited in early December and found the countryside was thick with fog - a real 'pea souper' - you could only see about 20 yards in any direction. Despite this I insisted on climbing the Tor as this was something I had never done. As we climbed (visability now pretty much zero) we feared it would be a wasted trip. However, as we reached the summit we literally walked up out of the fog, into brilliant sunshine - dark blue sky with not a cloud in sight. (The fog ended about 10 feet lower than the top). All you could see in any direction was the top of the 'cloud like' fog - as far as the eye could see. There was complete silence and a lone dove sat on top of the church tower. A truly memorable moment in my life. I only wish I hadn't left the camera in the car as we assumed it would be fog all the way up. We later drove to Bristol airport where we had booked a flight to see the Northern Lights over northern Scotland. What a day!!! |
Posted by CARL 19th March 2010ce |
Maiden Castle (Dorchester) (Hillfort) — Fieldnotes |
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This is one of those sites which I found to be 'jaw dropping'. I had of course seen many photos before visiting and had read many articles on the site. However, this did not prepare me for the sheer size of the place and the unbelievably large and deep ramparts - they are MASSIVE!!!! The defenders of this hillfort must have felt very confident when they saw the Romans approaching......................... Allow as long as possible when visiting this site, It will certainly take a time to walk around the outside edge! |
Posted by CARL 19th March 2010ce |
Pepper Hill (Round Barrow(s)) — Folklore |
.. "Pepper Hill" at Weeting is said to be so called because from its poplar-crowned summit "Oliver Cromwell peppered Weeting Castle."From 'Norfolk and Suffolk' by W G Clarke (1921). |
Posted by Rhiannon18th March 2010ce |
Mickle Hill (Round Barrow(s)) — Folklore |
Though there are surprisingly few traditions concerning the barrows, yet the curiosity they aroused in the minds of dwellers in the neighbourhood is shown by the fact that so many of them have names. That it was "a very mysterious mound" was all that I could glean from a shepherd concerning a barrow at Croxton, but he was able to inform me that it was called "Mickle Hill" (a name hitherto unrecorded)...From 'Norfolk and Suffolk' by W G Clarke (1921). |
Posted by Rhiannon 18th March 2010ce |
Eggardon Barrows (Barrow Cemetery) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
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Posted by formicaant18th March 2010ce |
Winterbourne Poor Lot (Round Barrow(s)) — Images |
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Posted by formicaant 18th March 2010ce |
Norfolk — News |
How discovery off the Norfolk coast holds the key to Norway's pastLost land under the sea..... It is just eight inches long, but its discovery changed what we know about prehistoric Europe and our ancestors. The harpoon, which was found by a Lowestoft fishing trawler in 1931, was yesterday under the lens of a Norwegian television crew, who are making a documentary on the origins of Norway. It is 14,000 years old, but in perfect condition, the points carved into it still sharp. It would have been used for hunting by modern man in late Paleolithic or early Mesolithic times; a time before written records when people lived in hunter-gatherer communities. But it is where it was found, 25 miles off the coast of Cromer, that makes it important to history. When it was dredged off the sea bed in 1931, hidden inside a lump of peat, it was taken home by Pilgrim Lockwood, the skipper of the fishing boat Colinda. It later ended up in Norwich's Castle Museum, where it fascinated archaeologists. They thought it might have been dropped by hunters on a fishing expedition. But later tests showed that the freshwater peat it came from would have been on land thousands of years ago. They realised the existence of land in the North Sea, long since drowned, called Doggerland. The harpoon is now on display in the Museum of Rural Life in Gressenhall, near Dereham, but was being filmed in the study centre at the Castle Museum yesterday. Its significance to Norwegian history is that it shows how people from south-west Europe could have got to Norway. The theory is that in the last ice age, people from Iberia moved up into Britain, across Doggerland and into Scandinavia. Producer Ole Egil Strkson said: "This particular object is the first clue that that happened." The producers had been hoping to find relatives of Pilgrim Lockwood to tell the story of how he found the harpoon. What is known is that he returned to the site in 1932 to take the peat samples which were used for testing. The television crew said they felt moved by the age and significance of the deer antler harpoon, known as the Leman and Ower harpoon after the sandbanks where it was found. Presenter Samina Bruket said: "I was allowed to hold it. To think it is 14,000 years old is just amazing. I had seen pictures of it but it is even more beautiful than I thought, it was so shiny and well preserved." Mr Storkson said: "It has been carved, so you can see it really has been used by humans." Alan West, a curator of archaeology with Norfolk museum service, said: "It was originally part of a pair. The barbs faced each other with a long shaft used to stab down, like the eel spears you see from the 19th century." The programme, which will be called Norwegian Roots, is due to be shown in December on the biggest Norwegian television station in prime-time. The film crew went on to visit Holme-next-the-sea, near Hunstanton, where they filmed peat and remains of tree roots visible at low tide, showing that there was once land which is now covered by sea. They are also planning to visit Vince Gaffney, of Birmingham University and an expert in Doggerland. He says that: "a very real, human tragedy lies behind the loss of this immense landscape", and that with global warming and sea levels rising, it has relevance today. About Doggerland Doggerland, named after the Dogger Bank sandbank, is thought to have existed between 12,000 and 8,000 years ago. During the last ice age, much more water was contained in the polar ice caps, and the North Sea included an area of land larger than England and Wales, linking East Anglia with Holland and Belgium, with a much narrower stretch of water cutting off Britain from Norway. It is thought to have been a land of rivers and marshes, which offered good hunting grounds for people. As the earth warmed and sea levels rose 8,000 years ago, the land was covered by water. Sea levels rose at one or two metres per century, creating a loss of land which would have been noticeable to the residents but not enough to drown them overnight. http://tinyurl.com/yhupq53 Europe's Lost World - Rediscovery of Doggerland.. http://www.britarch.ac.uk/books/Gaffney2009 |
Posted by moss 18th March 2010ce |
The Cove (Standing Stones) — Fieldnotes |
| Where else can you get a drink and a meal sat right next to a prehistoric site? (Avebury is another place) At least you could when the pub was open! |
Posted by CARL 18th March 2010ce |
London Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) — News |
London Stone: Making a MythLecture. Museum of London, Tuesday, 13 April. 6.30-8pm. Free. "John Clark has recently retired from a long and distinguished career as Senior Curator (Medieval) at the Museum of London. In this talk he investigates the strange history of London Stone, the mysterious block of limestone that currently sits, ignored by passers-by, in an alcove in the wall of a building opposite Cannon Street Station." More here - http://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/london-stone-making-a-myth-3/ |
Posted by Littlestone17th March 2010ce |
Abbotsbury Castle (Hillfort) — Images |
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Posted by formicaant 17th March 2010ce |
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