Re: Lintley | Forum — The Modern Antiquarian

TMA Ed Mar 3, 2006 11:53:13

Replying to StoneLifter

Thanks for the clarification StoneLifter. The disputed antiquity flag and accompanying post have now been removed. Perhaps you could add some more detail to your Miscellaneous post to put Lintley in context.

On TMA the onus is very much on the person who has posted a site to qualify its inclusion (this is clearly stated in the Submission Guidelines). Ideally we'd like this to be done in the form of a textual post (ie. Fieldnotes or Misc.).

Purely as a safeguard, us Eds check to see whether or not a site falls within the period covered by TMA. We only have to do this because a reasonable number of sites get added to TMA when they're not relevant (eg. not old enough) or ambiguous and poorly documented.

We don't have the resources to do detailed research into every problematic site that is posted on TMA. If there's reasonable cause for doubt we will either contact the postee, add the disputed antiquity flag or in some cases simply remove the site.

If you know of a link to the relevant SMR for Lintley, please feel free to post it on the site. The clearer things are, the better for everyone.

TMA Ed

StoneLifter Mar 3, 2006 14:04:11

Replying to TMA Ed

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/search/fr.cfm?rcn=NSMR03-5984 but this doesn't say 'prehistoric'. The entry suggests it's Roman.

Hob Mar 4, 2006 01:33:14

Replying to TMA Ed

>The clearer things are, the better for everyone.

In defence of Stonelifter's assertions that there are prehistoric remains on the moors west of the South Tyne Valley, the Beckensall archive has an example of a pretty convincing marked stone. Iv'e posted the link to tma for the sake of context. http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/8094

It's worth pointing out that it where such motifs are found, there are usually burial monuments nearby. Not a vast amount of help, as some of the features have described as possibly medieval, and hence this stone may have shifted a way since it was carved, but it still indicates there is a decent likelihood of there being prehistoric stuff around there at some point.

I think the main difficulty you're going to have SL, is that all that mining will have obliterated much of what was there. Still, there might be another nice prehistoric gold basket earring that some riever dropped hundreds of years ago after ripping into a cairn on his way to trash one of those medieval mining sites.