Just in case you want something to complain about

Lansdown 4

Image by Rhiannon

Rhiannon Sep 2, 2004 15:45:23

I haven't seen it myself but this is in the September edition of Current Archaeology:

"Barrow saved from walkers.
Archaeologists had to climb 45 minutes there and back every day, to excavate a Bronze Age burial mound on the highest point in Carmarthenshire. It was being taken apart by walkers building a cairn around a 'geocache' box."

On a more jolly note there is an article about Seahenge and the carvings at Hunterheugh Crags, Northumberland.

moss Sep 2, 2004 16:37:22

Replying to Rhiannon

Not complaining just a ghost story heard today. Met a man and his wife plus dogs walking on Lansdown racecourse, and he reckons he has seen a ghost up there on the middle path. Face to face on a dull afternoon a man suddenly loomed in front of him, he reckoned that the ghost was large and burly, farmerlike in appearance, there seemed to be fast moving mists around the figure; he thought it was probably in 200/300 years dress. Which led him to speculate that it was some soldier fleeing from the civil war battle further down on the Lansdown. Now whether you believe that story or not, it does raise the question, are all ghosts seen from historical times, or do people see prehistoric ghosts....

baza Sep 2, 2004 16:51:44

Replying to Rhiannon

The stories you mention aren't in Current Archaeology, they're in the Sept issue of British Archaeology. The same one that I mentioned earlier:

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?message=220463&thread=19966

The geocache must have gone by now, because the walkers' cairn was in the middle of the barrow and the barrow was excavated down to ground level. (There's a pic of it with the walkers' cairn removed.)

"After excavation of vulnerable features, the site was covered with geotextile and prepared for grass regrowth."

:o)

Baz

Blaidd Sep 8, 2004 12:17:45

Replying to Rhiannon

Apologies, bit slow around here.
Have to ask, what is the position on Seahenge now? Kind of lost the plot through the whole excavation thing years ago as I was in tears periodically during the Time Team massacre.
It must be going back a bit but the last time I sort of heard anything, the building or center it was housed in suffered from a fire & it was uncertain what would happen next.

Any information to the ignorant would be most gratefully received.

Ta much

Blaidd