how deep is your love?

tuesday Nov 1, 2005 20:53:38

I wondered if people here felt that there may still be major sites yet to be discovered. i was reading about peat and how deep it goes and for how long it has been around and covering things up (callanish for example). magnetometry and geo physics and whatever may have now ruled this out of course

my own thought, for what it's worth, is that there is - but then i got Julian Cope confused with Julian Cary for a while...

FourWinds Nov 1, 2005 20:59:36

Replying to tuesday

When you consider places such as the Ceide Fields and Beaghmore then you have to believe that under all the peat in Ireland there are major complexes waiting to be foundand the way it's being dug up to put on gardens it won't be long before the next one turns up. Add to that the 34 billion euro transport infrastructure just announced by the Irish gov't a lot more could be found in the next 10 years.

StoneLifter Nov 1, 2005 21:44:48

Replying to tuesday

It's in the South Tyne valley - it's been discovered and listed, mostly, it just has to seep out into popular culture yet. There's many more landscapes awaiting recognition, probably in the North Pennines. If antiquarians had shot grouse, they would have got a look in. But they didn't and they haven't. Right To Roam makes it an open landscape once again.

My finds in Bolton are quite substantial too - but are currently zilched and uninvestigated. Five stone rows at five different sites adds substantially to the understanding of stone row sites everywhere. Or will do. The archemefrologists at M.U. can't be bothered etc.

goffik Nov 1, 2005 21:47:08

Replying to tuesday

I believe there's stone circles etc being found to this day in and around Callanish... The peat is harvested revealing some fabulous sites, siuch as Achmore... I think we've still got a long way to go to find them all... ;o)

The Uists are scattered with rocks/stones, with quite a few stone circles marked on the OS map. But can you find them? Can you 'eck!

G x

fitzcoraldo Nov 1, 2005 22:49:11

Replying to tuesday

Three years ago a moor in North Yorkshire caught fire and burned for a couple days, removing most of the peat cover. Prior to the fire there were a few known barrows and a couple of dozen carved rocks known to be on the moor.
After the fire, dozens of low cairns, a couple more possible barrows & ring cairns, a whole bunch of as-yet unclassified features and over 200 carved rocks were recorded including one carved kerb stone of national if not international significance.
It's no Callanish but a pretty major site by most standards.
So yes, there are probably hundreds of similar sites throughout our islands and just off our coasts waiting to be recognised.