Re: Two 6,000-Year-Old 'Halls of the Dead' Unearthed | Forum

moss Aug 4, 2013 11:13:00

Replying to thesweetcheat

thesweetcheat wrote:

Some photos of the dig over on the portal:

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?x=332740&y=242130

It looks like it's right on the hilltop, near the little fort, so even the long barrows mentioned are presumably new discoveries, let alone the structures underneath.

So that means they were flattened the long barrows? shame there was no 'before' photos of them, no large stones then, just earthen barrows.......
It also shows of course that settlement was long lived on Dorstone Hill (or not) but it would be interesting if the Neolithic settlement could be 'unearthed'

edit; you have got to give F/B its due, apart from Digital Digging, Aerial-Cam went down and photographed as well, so just look at some of these flints...

http://digitaldigging.net/blog/the-houses-on-dorstone-hill-images/

tiompan Aug 4, 2013 11:38:18

Replying to moss

The closest mention of any monument to the dig is "Ploughed down Neolithic and Bronze Age enclosed settlement on Dorstone Hill." about a 100m to the south.

thesweetcheat Aug 4, 2013 11:56:41

Replying to moss

moss wrote:

So that means they were flattened the long barrows? shame there was no 'before' photos of them, no large stones then, just earthen barrows.......

http://digitaldigging.net/blog/the-houses-on-dorstone-hill-images/

Thanks very much for that link Moss. The aerial photo here:

http://digitaldigging.net/blog/the-houses-on-dorstone-hill-images/attachment/1/

shows the gateway top right where I took this picture from in 2011:

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/123481/dorstone_hill.html

so there wasn't much to flatten!

As Tiompan refers to, there wasn't even any mention of any long barrows at all on Pastscape, just the Neo/BA settlement site and the fort to the south. Certainly a long period of occupation as you say.