Searchable Historic Environment Record for Kent. If you look at the sites on a map you can also choose historic maps for the area.
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Lovely clear interactive maps with links to more information on the Heritage Gateway.
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I felt suspicious of adding these because mysteriously they're not already on TMA. But I think the probable reason is that they're within a firing range. Maybe they're accessible occasionally...
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Notes on Excavations at Leacet Hill Stone Circle, Westmorland, by Joseph Robinson and R S Ferguson. P76 in volume 5 of the Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society (1881). Their investigations found three stones that were buried on the far side of the wall, and several urns. There's a nice little plan with a table of the sizes of the stones.
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There's not much of the fort left on top of this hill. But more exciting is the "Torrs Chamfrein" found in the immediate vicinity - a superb bit of Early Iron Age bronze work.
Two curly pointy things were also found. Initially they were thought to be 'horns' to go with the pony mask. eg p29 here:
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_007/7_334_361.pdf
And then it was decided that they were the bottoms of drinking horns. But now the NMS record wisely hedges its bets, and says they were from 'an ostentatious display object'. Very nice whatever.
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Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society for 1895 - "The Stone Circles on Chetham's Close" by Major Gilbert J French. Includes some plans of the stones, and also a report from 1871 when Thomas Greenhalgh's 'disgust and astonishment may easily be imagined when I found two of the stones broken almost to fragments, and several others damaged'. Disappointing.
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Online versions of the DGNHAS Transactions - from the 1860s to the 1920s.
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An article by Jim Leary and David Field about their investigations at Silbury, in the online Jan/Feb 2011 edition.
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From the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine for June 1903 - William Gowland's descriptions of the Recent Excavations at Stonehenge. A fence was put around the area (to protect it from military goings-on), a track through the henge diverted, and a madly leaning stone put upright. Includes a very clear plan.
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Short video from the Museum of Somerset showing some of the gold objects found in the county. Steve Minnitt presents a torc found near Yeovil, an amazingly intricate and fine ring-shaped Thing, and the 17 gold objects untangled from the hoard buried at Priddy.
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Short film about the superb bronze shield excavated at South Cadbury, now residing at the Museum of Somerset (due to reopen this year). Steve Minnitt explains how it's the only shield ever to have been found during an archaeological excavation, and it owes its current state to the fact it wasn't found under 'different circumstances' ie metal detectorists who would have pulled it out of the ground immediately and disintegrated it into a squillion useless pieces.
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In the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall (publ 1886) - twenty pages of Victorian descriptions and drawings.
I was pleased to read (p301) that "Although difficult of entrance most of the company (including some of the ladies) scrambled into it, and made an inspection of it." Not bad considering you'd imagine women to be encumbered by what they were wearing in those days. And it sounds rather spooky. The description on p246 seems to show a thinly disguised horror of rats, heavy atmosphere, dankness, and a 'thick dark fog', not to mention the ankle-breakers on the floor.
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'The Earth Circles on St. Martha's Hill, Near Guildford' by E S Wood, in Surrey Archaeological Collections v54 (1955).
Masses of speculation about the Good Friday revelling that used to take place on the hill, plenty of archaeology and lots of leads for the local antiquarian detective.
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'Reliquiae Diluvianae' - You can read about Reverend Buckley's exploits in the cave on p82, and then on p274 are his drawings. I was inspired to look it up after seeing Neil Oliver's enthusiasm on the new 'History of Ancient Britain' series.
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'L'Anthropologie' volume 31, for 1921.
Lots of drawings of the lovely Gavrinis carvings. It's a shame they're not photographs. But as even drawings seem to be hard to come by on the internet, I was most pleased to find them.
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Supplement to the London Review for Saturday, September 28th, 1861.
Once upon a time the circle had a hedge running through it - "a real good bushy hedge". If you have a curious whim to see what it looked like, there are a pair of drawings here.
Only a few years after, the hedge had been removed by a more sympathetic landowner (the aptly named Miss Carne from Penzance) who had also popped a fence round the stones and secured them from 'accidental or wilful mutilation'.
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From volume 94 of PSAS (1960/1) - an article about the cist slab found at Badden Farm, with its lovely carved lozenges. There's a photo at the end. The RCAHMS record says it's now in Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum. It doesn't seem to be on their website but I guess they've got a lot of items still to put on? It's rather unusual so you do hope it's safe don't you. Judging by the way the (pecked) grooves go through the pattern, that implies the pattern was inside the cist?
More illustrations at the bottom of the page here.
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From the 'B' cairn - a piece of human vertebra with a stone arrowhead firmly stuck in it. Nasty. You can weave a story around it of murder or warfare or daft accident, a human story from the Neolithic. But one thing is sure, it can't have been a very pleasant incident for the poor beggar that got shot, can it.
(And I suppose they had to label it somewhere. But did they really have to label it right there?! No sense of aesthetics.)
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This hill, it has a meaning that is very important for me, but it's not rational. It's beautiful, but when you look, there's nothing there. But I'd be a fool if I didn't listen to it.
-- Alan Garner.
..I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn..
-- William Wordsworth.
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