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Rhiannon May 26, 2005 11:15:19
Replying to moss

Ooh yes! I have a photocopy of the spoons design somewhere - I'll dig it out and leave it for you. On one side they have swirly celtic patterns, and a kind of cross on the other. One of them has a curious circular nick at the side, and apparently this is the same as some other pairs of spoons that have been found elsewhere.

I think the idea of the Loxbrook is fascinating, I like the idea you can trace where it was - or I suppose where it IS, flowing underground now. It seems important to the whole landscape around Weston, coming off the 'bowl' beneath the round hill and the saddley bit and Lansdown itself. and now it's kind of 'hidden landscape'.

I am trying to finish off my 'art foundation' course at the moment and have based it on Kelston round hill. It may sound mad but I went round collecting water from all the different streams round about. Have you been up to st Alphage's well? and there is a spring called the Pucken Well on the other side.

M moss
moss May 26, 2005 12:52:59
Replying to Rhiannon

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/16091. This is the remains of the barrow that must have been in the field under the hill - the one with the newly planted trees and deerfence. If you want to see it, go over the top about two-thirds back from the viewpoint (towards Littledown) and scrabble down the rough bank.
Also just put on the other destroyed barrow that faces the Hill, think it has a date of 1200bc, excavated by Faulkner 1911. Would have liked the " sun disc" to have been found here, but it must have been another barrow. Anyway I am sure the disc would have been used to reflect the sun somewhere here up on the downs. You could conjure up a lovely folktale about the bronze age warrior who was buried in this barrow, overlooking the hill or his lands.....

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