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New aerial photo collection from 1943/44Just out from Historic England: "A collection of Second World War aerial photography has been made accessible to the public for the first time. The photographs were taken by the United States Army Air Forces Photographic Reconnaissance units stationed around England in 1943 and 1944... continues... |
Posted by UncleRob17th August 2023ce |
Historic England releases map based on 500,000 aerial pictures"More than half a million aerial images of historical sites in England have been used for a new mapping tool. Photographs and 3D laser scans have been taken over the past 30 years to uncover "hidden archaeological landscapes", Historic England said... continues... |
Posted by thesweetcheat8th October 2021ce |
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Uffington White Duck Those zany National Truss People really had me going then. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/news/second-chalk-figure-discovered-near-uffington-white-horse?campid=Social_Central_Twitter_Conservation_Duck-010417 |
Posted by Howburn Digger1st April 2017ce |
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Environment Agency LiDAR - open data "From September 2015 all our LIDAR data will become Open Data and everyone will be able to use it for free." Although primarily used for flood risk assessment, there will be lots of archaeology to see. https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2015/06/16/free-mapping-data-will-elevate-flood-risk-knowledge/ |
Posted by thesweetcheat 16th July 2015ce |
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English Heritage to become charity by 2015 English Heritage has been given £80m in the government's Spending Review as part of plans for the organisation to become a charity. Some of the £80m awarded by the government will help to set up the charity so it will be fully operational by March 2015. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23064356 |
Posted by Chance28th June 2013ce |
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English Heritage and British Museum commission study into illegal metal detecting English Heritage and the British Museum are so alarmed they have commissioned a £100,000 study into the practice. It could lead to new legislation to combat offenders. Spotted at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/08/nmetal108.xml |
Posted by Robert Carr 10th July 2007ce Edited 10th July 2007ce |
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Some information that may be of use to TMA-ers looking at OS maps of England and Wales, from "Field Archaeology - Some Notes For Beginners Issued by the Ordnance Survey" (1963 - Fourth edition), chapter entitled "Tumuli": "Today the term tumulus is reserved for those earthen mounds either known or presumed to be covering burials. Formerly a class of larger mounds, now known to belong to early medieval castles also received this name in error ..., but now are given their correct technical description or are described as 'Mound' in the appropriate type. All piles of stones are called cairns whether their funerary character is known or not, but the use of an 'antiquity' type will mean that the Survey believes it to be sepulchral. In some very lofty situations it will be obvious that they are not graves. Where a mound has a local name which clearly indicates the belief that it is a burial place the descriptive name tumulus is not added." |
Posted by thesweetcheat 20th January 2009ce Edited 20th January 2009ce |
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ADSYou can download EH's Archaeological Monograph on 'The Neolithic Flint Mines of England' (1999) by Topping, Barger and Field, from the ADS website. |
Posted by Rhiannon12th December 2014ce |
Ancient CraftAncient craft is dedicated to the archaeology of primitive crafts and technologies that encompass the three prehistoric ages: STONE; BRONZE and IRON. This includes working with materials such as stone (also known as "flintknapping"), wood, bone, horn, leather, metals and cloth (plant fibres, and wools). Follow Ancient Craft on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AncientCraftUK |
Posted by Chance 8th April 2014ce |
Portable Antiquities Scheme Database"The Scheme's database holds records of artefacts and coins found by the public, whilst pursuing a wide range of activities (the majority from metal detecting). We do not record details of objects found by archaeologists, and these data can be found within the local Historic Environment Office." "The half a million objects recorded mark was reached on March 21st 2010." |
Posted by Chance 25th July 2012ce Edited 25th July 2012ce |
Early British Trackways, Moats, Mounds, Camps, and SitesA Lecture given to the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, at Hereford, September, 1921, by Alfred Watkins Download complete book in pdf format |
Posted by Chance 10th July 2010ce |
Grave-mounds and their contentsGrave-mounds and their contents a manual of archaeology, as exemplified in the burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon periods by Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt Published in 1870, Groombridge (London) Download the complete book in pdf format |
Posted by Chance 25th March 2010ce |
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Rubury Butts, Three Barrows Down (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) — Miscellaneous |
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This site caught my eye while scanning the map for something to bolster a trip to not-too-distant West Wood... and turned out to be a first-class, primary visit, including possibly the finest surviving round barrows in Kent? Now there's a thing. The only downer is the Three Barrows sit immediately adjacent to the North Downs Way, thus suffering from the attention of plodding hikers/French tourists and, far more seriously, moronic trail bikers. Indeed, the 'leader' of one such group of 'broom broom halfwits' steadfastly refused to meet my gaze after I refused his 'good morning' - hell, the fool damn well knew he was doing wrong! Shame on him and his kind. Anyway, Historic England summarises thus: "The three bowl barrows known as Rubury Butts at Three Barrow Down, Womenswold, Kent lie at the convergence of the three parishes of Womenswold, Nonington and Shepherdswell in a lightly wooded copse adjacent to the North Downs Way. They were noted by the C18 antiquarian Bryan Faussett in his Inventorium Sepulchrale published in 1860 who believed that their name derived from ‘’Romes berig Butts’, meaning ‘ the butts at the Roman burial place’. Faussett undertook excavations of Anglo-Saxon burial sites at Golgotha, Shepherdswell and Barfrestone approximately 2km to the east and it is thought possible that these later monuments may have been positioned intentionally within the sight of the three earlier barrows. It is certainly the case that a resurgence of interest in barrow construction took place in the Iron Age, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon and Viking periods when burials were made in ancient mounds or new mounds were constructed. Nationally barrows are known to have acted as Parish markers as in this case..... It is likely that the Rubury Butts bowl barrow cemetery is Bronze Age in origin.... The barrows are aligned in a row on a north-west to south-east axis approximately 5m apart. The northernmost barrow is 26m across and stands to 3.5m [c11.5ft - G] in height. The middle barrow is 14m wide and 1m high and the third, adjacent to the track, is ovoid in shape, approximately 21m wide and 1.9m [c6ft - G] high, eroded to the south-east by the track. None of the mounds have obvious ditches." |
Posted by GLADMAN4th May 2024ce |
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