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Re: What's going on here?
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I can't comment on exactly what pics are what, but like many of the Scilly isles Samson is relatively undisturbed and has a mass / jumble of pre-Christian remains. We could therefore also be asking 'why aren't there more Samson sites on TMA?'. The answer is probably that they are damn difficult to separate and difficult to visit.

I would assume that http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/2642 and http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/4613 are the same site. Probably best to just have two sites for the island (south hill and north hill) and put all the info up within those two categories, unless someone is going to do some intense fieldwork to separate them.

Jeanette Ratclifffe in 'Scilly's Archaeological Heritage' (Twelveheads Press, 1995) shows 9 entrance graves, 7 cairns, 2 cists, and a field system just on North Hill! South Hill weighs in with 4 entrance graves, 5 roundhouses, a field system and a partridge in a pear tree.

I also have the Cornwall Archaeological Unit’s 215 page epic 'The Archaeology of Scilly' (1989), which is frighteningly detailed and shows more even antiquities!


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pure joy
Posted by pure joy
9th March 2004ce
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