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Tammaskirk (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) — Links

St Thomas's Kirk, Hall Of Rendall


Broch (Iron Age)(Possible),
Settlement (Period Unassigned), Carved Stone Ball, Unidentified Pottery (Iron Age)

Castle Hill (Hillfort) — Images (click to view fullsize)

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Threip Moor (Cairn(s)) — Images

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Clach Ossian (Natural Rock Feature) — Images

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Giant's Grave (Sma' Glen) (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images

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The Bull Stone (Natural Rock Feature) — Images

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Stonehenge (Circle henge) — Images

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Lewis and Harris — News

Diver finds 5,500 year old cup in Loch.


https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-herald-1130/20200622/281762746514403

Also here.

https://www.northern-times.co.uk/news/former-dornoch-man-discovers-5500-year-old-cup-in-loch-203536/

And here.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/21/ancient-cup-cup-discovered-hebrides-loch-former-royal-navy-diver/

Eastmore (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) — Images

<b>Eastmore</b>Posted by Howburn Digger

Cairnholy (Chambered Cairn) — Images

<b>Cairnholy</b>Posted by Howburn Digger

Traprain Law (Hillfort) — News

Traprain Law Silver 100th Anniversary of its discovery


Had the fantastic pleasure of a brilliant lecture from Dr Fraser Hunter with stunning slides (in amazing resolution) at Lanark on Monday 9th December.

https://blog.nms.ac.uk/2019/05/12/a-century-of-silver-the-traprain-treasure-on-its-hundredth-birthday/

There is a new, rather pricey book coming out. The images are simply stunning and the finds shed new light on the context of Traprain from Bronze Age through to the Iron Age. Maybe one for the Santa wishlist.

https://www.bookdepository.com/Late-Roman-Silver-Treasure-from-Traprain-Law-Fraser-Hunter/9781910682234

Another very recent find (from some lovely Detectorists) over in Fife.

https://blog.nms.ac.uk/2017/08/01/rebuilding-roman-silver-a-fantastic-find-from-fife/

Southern England — News

London Treasure - Havering


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7595797/Huge-Bronze-Age-treasure-hoard-dating-3-000-years-offering-gods.html

Eire — Folklore

With the steamy hot weather over with for the time being and the rainy season upon us once more, I found myself indoors, taking strange turns on YouTube and I finally arrived here.

https://youtu.be/FIrYD7djFH8

Passage graves were "aerial bombardment shelters for the Telepaths", while souterrains were blast shelters for the lower orders. All the other members of Ben McBrady's secret ancient order of Ancient Druids are dead, so only Ben McBrady can pass on the real history of Ireland.

Apologies if this has been posted before... but I had never seen this treasure before. 50 minutes of your time... Unmissable!

Stronach Wood (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Images

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Achnacree (Chambered Tomb) — Images

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South Lanarkshire — News

The Howburn Book "Reindeer Hunters at Howburn Farm, South Lanarkshire"


The Book of Howburn published towards the end of last year...

Full report of the late Upper Paleolithic findings from from Howburn Farm a little North of Biggar. Over ten years in the making, the work is dedicated to the memory of Alan Saville of the National Museums of Scotland who was a great supporter of Biggar Archaeology Group's prehistoric work and who died during the preparation of the book. Alan should have been co-author of the lithics side of the project. The book is dedicated to his memory. Similarly, some of Biggar Archaeology Group have also sadly passed away in the interim; Fiona Christison, Denise Dudds, Ian Paterson and Janet Ward, all stalwarts of BAG, and all fondly remembered.

http://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id={4ED1A69D-996A-4D30-A92A-5FC7CFD6099F}

Hard copies are £25.

Free PDF of full publication from this link.

http://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/download.asp?id={F70B0E82-8EC0-4A15-8E8A-C9CE826C2AF8}

What a story.

Arran — Images

<b>Arran</b>Posted by Howburn Digger

Cairnholy (Chambered Cairn) — Images

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Barharrow (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Images

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Druid Auchencar (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images

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Stonehenge (Circle henge) — Images

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Chauvet Cave (Cave / Rock Shelter) — Links

Cave Of Forgotten Dreams


Watch the full Hertzog documentary on YT. There are a few full versions.

https://youtu.be/q2J8kC7l650

Black Cave (Cave / Rock Shelter) — Images

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Kintraw (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images

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Wiltshire — News

Long Barrow business rates for storage


You couldn't really make this up.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/29/uks-first-pagan-burial-tomb-5000-years-hit-business-rates-bill/

Clach Ossian (Natural Rock Feature) — Images

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Newlaw Hill 1 (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Images

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High Banks (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Images

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Raeburnfoot (Bank Barrow) — Fieldnotes

A return visit to this huge, long structure bedded into its peaty hillside on a massive area of reedy marshy upland unimproved hill grazing.
I found some notes from my last visit which I am reproducing below.
Although three months earlier in the season than my last visit in December 2013, I was hardly five minutes from the car when a squall of freezing September rain came down in sheets utterly soaking me. The bitter rain had elements of hail and was driven by a chill wind. Be prepared. Eskdalemuir can be bleak even in September. By the time I summited the terminus cairn on the bank barrow it was sunny again. My lovely camera refused to work or even switch on despite the batteries being fully charged. I took some pitiful pictures with a steam-powered mobile which do not do the site justice. Another visit beckons... low Winter sun methinks.
The monument is long (currently estimated at 650 metres) and the terminus cairn is around 5 feet high. You cannot see the bottom from the top! Even walking down to where the North East rampart of the Roman Camp cuts across... the lower end of the bank barrow is nowhere to be seen. The scale starts to kinda sink in.
Rebecca Jones notes the deliberate siting of the North East "Stracathro Gate" atop the raised ground of the bank barrow and it is hard to interpret it in any other way. It was kinda cool to see this diagonal bank and ditch cutting out from the Roman ramparts... this site has the only known upstanding examples of this type of gate in the world. The general consensus is that the "Stracathro Gated" Roman Camps (they are only found in Scotland) date from the Agricolan Period and given this camp's location it is likely to date from the first couple of years of the campaign (79 - 80 AD).
There is another mighty Roman presence nearby with a big permanent Antonine fort's huge earthworks sited between Raeburnfoot Farm and the White Esk. Along the short stretch of farm road there are also the earthworks of two substantial settlements and aside from the bank barrow, the Lamb Knowe hill has a number of tantalising enclosures as well. With the Girdlestanes and Loupin' Stanes just a stone's throw away plus an enviable array of forts, settlements and earthworks across Castle O'er and Bessie's Hill this is a wee corner which could take years to explore properly.



Raeburnfoot 16.12.13

It was a straightforward scoot down the old A77 from Crawford zigzagging under the modern M77. Exit at Beattock heading for Moffat. The low winter sun was at its highest and I wanted to try and photograph some shadows on the lengthy earthwork to try and get some definition before the valley lost the light in the mid-afternoon.
I pulled into Eskdalemuir just in time for the rain to start. Take the little turn off marked B7060 to Jedburgh and as soon as you cross the bridge over the White Esk take a left and cross the Clerkhill Burn pull off the road into the farm track on the left signposted “Raeburnfoot”. Drive on and turn sharp left (steep uphill) at the first farmhouse. The road deteriorates after this and it might be advisable for those without 4 wheel drives to park at the side of the road. My wee VW Polo managed okay (just!) but be warned there are large potholes and the sharpness of the camber scraped my undercarriage/ sump a few times. This stretch of farm road is about three quarters of a mile long and brings you to Raeburnfoot Farm where the road forks in two.
There are plenty of places to leave a car here without getting in the way of farm vehicles. This is the point to park if you want to take in the Roman Fort en route to the Bank Barrow. The fort defences are in great shape and still present a challenge to get across. At the far side of the fort the ground starts to slope up and the start of the bank barrow can be seen in the centre of the slope in the short pasture.
If you want to avoid the Romans altogether there is a more direct route to the bank barrow. Instead of parking up... keep going and take the right hand road at the fork and continue through a gate which bars the road (be sure and close it after you). There are a few little areas on the left after the gate where it is quite safe to pull in and park out of the way. You will see a wee burn flowing under the road at the gate. Follow it upstream keeping in to its left bank. Five or ten minutes of proper striding and you will view the terminus cairn on the skyline and then crest the hill.
During my visit the driving rain turned to sleet when I got to the top of the hill. The site is on rough hill pasture with long grass and heather masking out a lot of the definition of this enormous structure. By following the Bank Barrow downhill for a few hundred yards you can get more of a perspective (though at no point can you see the whole monument) and the sheer scale kinda hits you! It is enormous!

Raeburnfoot (Bank Barrow) — Images

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I live in Scotland with my other half and my twelve year old son.
I grew up looking across the Firth of Clyde to Arran. I first visited the island in 1980. I've gone back a few times every year since.

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