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OK, just a cheap way of getting a name check for my home village that wouldn't otherwise have a chance of a mention here....
an article about all the crop marks appearing everywhere
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/21/nfootprints21.xml

including one at Claverley -
"Deep green crop markings photographed at Claverley, near Bridgnorth, Shropshire, showed up parallel ditches in a field of sugar beet. They probably surrounded a late prehistoric settlement."

No big deal to you lot no doubt, but to me, brought up in a megalithic desert of soft red sandstone and river gravel, without the least sniff of anthing prehistoric, MEGA!

linear ditch, Anglo-Saxon but probably earlier, within Tinker's Castle SO 822 942
at Abbots Castle Hill.
E/W aerial pit-alignment SO 801 960 to SO 802 959.
BA ring-ditch cropmarks at SO 7834 9530 (http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.asp?hob_no=114501) pit-alignment cropmarks at SO 7685 9530 (http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.asp?hob_no=114522) Worfield, Bridgnorth

nigelswift wrote:
No big deal to you lot no doubt, but to me, brought up in a megalithic desert of soft red sandstone and river gravel, without the least sniff of anthing prehistoric, MEGA!
I find it mildly interesting Nigel, but again, it's a local thing.

Maybe one day you will join me in the search for the missing Bolt Stone?:

http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:kXgAdqGO9FoJ:headheritage.com/headtohead/show.php%3Fshow%3Dmessage%26id%3D98464+standing+stone+tuck+hill+six+ashes&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=3

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:WKX3Rvmd8FgJ:www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/extracts/E000319a.htm+%22bolt+stone%22+shropshire&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&ie=UTF-8

http://www.shropshirestar.com/show_article.php?aID=47501