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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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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 Chance25th 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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Thetford Castle (Hillfort) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
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Posted by ruskus 20th May 2013ce |
Stonehenge and its Environs — News |
Ancient skeletons have been found on a Mansell house-building site near Stonehenge in Wiltshire."Six Saxon skeletons dating back more than 1,000 years and round barrows dating back to the Bronze Age 4,000 years ago have been discovered on a brownfield development site in Amesbury" http://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/skeletons-found-on-mansell-site |
Posted by Hob20th May 2013ce |
Cleeve Cloud (Hillfort) — Images |
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Posted by ginger tt19th May 2013ce |
Cleeve Common cross dyke — Images |
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Posted by ginger tt 19th May 2013ce |
Silchester (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) — Links |
Silchester Video on Youtube |
Posted by wickerman18th May 2013ce |
Bodmin Moor and the Rest of Cornwall — News |
The Heritage Trust: 2013 Outreach EventThe Heritage Trust will be holding its Outreach Event in Cornwall this year. The event will begin with lunch (for those wanting one) at the Cheesewring Hotel in Minions, Liskeard on Friday, 21 June. We’ll meet at the hotel around 11:30am leaving there around 1pm for a visit to Trethevy Quoit, then back to base at Minions for visits to The Hurlers, Pipers, Rillaton Barrow and Stowe’s. More here - http://theheritagetrust.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/the-heritage-trust-2013-outreach-event-update/ |
Posted by The Heritage Trust17th May 2013ce |
Belas Knap (Long Barrow) — Images |
   
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