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National Trust to give Britain a spring bonus"We're giving everyone in the country a bonus this spring by opening our doors for free on the weekend of 20-21 March 2010... continues... |
Posted by goffik11th February 2010ce Edited 11th February 2010ce |
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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 |
New EH ChairLord Bruce-Lockhart to be new English Heritage Chairman DEPARTMENT FOR CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT News Release (582007) issued by The Government News Network on 24 May 2007 Lord Bruce-Lockhart has been appointed Chair of English Heritage, the Government's statutory advisor on the historic environment, Culture Secretary Tessa... continues... |
Posted by tiompan24th May 2007ce Edited 24th May 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 thesweetcheat20th January 2009ce Edited 20th January 2009ce |
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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 Chance10th 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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Rosemorran (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
 
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Posted by bladup7th February 2012ce |
The Hellstone (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech) — Images |
    
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Posted by texlahoma7th February 2012ce |
Pike Low (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images |
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Posted by juamei7th February 2012ce |
Pike Low (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Fieldnotes |
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[visited 29/1/12] What on earth happened at the top of this hill? I bet 300 years ago there was a ridge, with a nice big barrow and a track next to it. Now there's a dirty gash of a road, a weird standing stone and what looks like the remains of a quarry. The stone, to me, looks modern, way too square for my tastes anyway. I couldn't even make out the outline of the barrow, if this was done by "excavators" they really worked this one over. If it is a quarry, the stone is probably from that phase of destruction. Access is a short walk from a layby either side of the ridge. Once I got close I couldn't even be bothered to get into the field so just climbed the 3m verge of the road to get moderately close. [edit] PS Good views though. |
Posted by juamei 7th February 2012ce |
Ginclough (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images |
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Posted by juamei 7th February 2012ce |
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