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Proleek (Portal Tomb)

Proleek portal tomb on BBC Iplayer.


Great British Railway Journeys goes to Ireland where Michael Portillo visits the Cromlech stones of Dundalk

...not that I am a train spotter or anything!...

watch it before its pulled on Feb 10th 2012.
:o)

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Chippenham Town Council


This maybe of interest to some:

The Wiltshire Victoria County History Trust presents its Annual Lecture
16/4/2011

The Druids by Professor Ronald Hutton

At Chippenham Town Hall 2.30pm, followed by an informal time including tea or coffee

Tickets £10.00 Available from Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre or by post from Wiltshire VCH Trust, 21 Elizabeth Drive Devizes SN10 3SB

Lugbury (Long Barrow)

You Tube


A series of 213 individual photographs of the Solstice sunrise at Lugbury in the summer of 2010, put together to make a short clip

Stonehenge (Stone Circle)

BBC Iplayer - Hidden Histories: Stonehenge Bluestones


Huw Edwards narrates another series looking at the hidden histories of Wales through the work of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments. Including a look at Stonehenge's link to the Preseli Hills

United Kingdom

Britain's Atlantis - Radio 4


Archaeologist Francis Pryor travels from the far north of Orkney, around the North Sea coast to the Isle of Wight and the Bristol Channel, chronicling some of the most recent knowledge and discoveries of what the land around mainland Britain was like before it was submerged by the melting ice at the end of the last Ice Age.

Stonehenge and its Environs

Visitor Centre Update


Quote from Wiltshire Heritage Museum - The plans for the Visitor Centre has now been published by EH - though the details of the building are a little sketchy.

A chance to visit a some exhibitions and express your views.
I like nothing better that to walk around new places to discover new stoney things and to photograph them

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