Hindwell Cursus status & Four Stones cursus query

Hindwell Cursus 1

Paulus Sep 12, 2007 11:26:06

This first bit is for the eds. I'd been reading about the excavation of this site sometime ago

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6790/hindwell_cursus_destroyed.html

...and, having just got more works from the CBA covering the region, checked TMA and found the monument to have a 'Disputed Antiquity' tag. Any reason why? Alex Gibson and others seem to think the site was real, but I appreciate there could be subsequent resarch showing it to be invalid - in which case does anyone have a reference to show as such? If not, this site needs the Tag removed. Cheers!

...And nearby (well, not too far away) we have what was initially proclaimed as the Four Stones cursus, described as "being recovered from aerial photographs taken over a number of years." (Gibson, 'Walton Basin Project' CBA 1999: 154) Anyone have anymore info on this site?

Cheers - Paul

tiompan Sep 12, 2007 11:36:53

Replying to Paulus

Paulus wrote:

This first bit is for the eds. I'd been reading about the excavation of this site sometime ago

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6790/hindwell_cursus_destroyed.html

Cheers - Paul

Maybe the cursus is disputed but the site has to be one of those like Blackhouse Burn where there is not much to see but probably one of the most important . Not sure on a European scale but at 2.35 Km circumference it is easily the greatest area of enclosure in Britain

TMA Ed Sep 12, 2007 13:50:04

Replying to Paulus

Thanks. The cursus was in a old sub-group that related to the TMA book: I don't know if that had anything to do with it. I have removed the tag and the sub-group, so now all the sites are within Radnorshire. Let us know if there are any other problems.
TMA Ed.