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The Bull Stone/Pulpit Stone on Google Maps

Zipped PDFs of all 6 books, tomes even. Quite a download but endlessly fascinating and highly recommended. Photos, descriptions and plans of every recorded monument. They didn’t do the six counties nor quite a large chunk of Leinster but invaluable all the same.

Offham Hill Neolithic Causewayed Enclosure. The northen section that has mostly survived.

The video starts looking in the direction of the small ditch first identified as Feature 12, the northernmost feature of the inner circle.

It is actually a small ditch that lies on the outer north bank and is not part of the Causewayed Enclosure.

But its location on What Three Words is a useful reference point:
striving.remarking.ember.

The video then walks along the path that follows the outer ditch of Features 6 and 5 South West to the turn to the South.

The last section after the turn, if I am right, runs along the outer ditch of Feature 4, in the outer circle. It makes sense that a path like this would navigate such a ditch from a time when it was more prominent or the area was less wooded.

Dehus Dolmen – Guernsey’s Most Impressive Passage Grave

A PDF guidebook published by the town of Grevesmühlen in German compiled by archaeologist Chiara Engesser in 2023)

A brief video of the remains of the passage grave

A visit to the mound

The toppling of the Old Woman Stone and the Mass Trespass of 1932

Court Hillock, a cairn measuring about 18.0m in diameter and 0.8 m height, is situated in a cultivated field, and spread by ploughing. The farmer at Upper Auchenreath reports that the mound is nearly all stones, a quantity of which he has removed in recent years.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 13 May 1971.

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Refers to the standing stones as Clune Hill / Pittenbrinzean

Field visit report 2016.

Details of the dun, more importantly vegetation free photos.

Skirsgill Standing Stone on Google Maps

Excavations at a scooped settlement north of Moffat in October 2024 have helped shed light on life in Southern Scotland in prehistory.

Achnacreebeag, near Oban, is a wonderful early Neolithic funerary monument with a great story to tell.

This lecture explores its history and origins, setting out how a Breton-style monument with Breton-style pottery came to be built on the west coast of Scotland around 6,000 years ago – and how it is part of a widespread group of similar monuments along Britain’s west coast and around the coast of Ireland. The lecture describes an exciting current research project, funded by the Audrey Henshall Legacy Fund of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and undertaken by Archaeology Scotland – Scotland’s Earliest Megalithic Monuments – that places Achnacreebeag in its broader international context and raises awareness of this fascinating period in our past.

About the Speaker: Dr Alison Sheridan is Vice-President of Archaeology Scotland and emerita Principal Curator of Early Prehistory (now Research Associate) at National Museums Scotland. She is a prehistorian, specialising in the Neolithic (New Stone Age) of Britain and Ireland in its broader International context. She has previously lectured in Oban, with osteologist Dr Angela Boyle, about the People of the Oban Caves.

Supported by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’s Audrey Henshall Legacy Award.

ProcSocAntiqScot, 114 (1984)

Interesting that the excavations were in the 1970s and found ten skeletons, after a schoolgirl walking her dog spotted a skull

This is a link to Thomas Bateman and Stephen Glover’s “Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire” (1848) in which the discovery of the shale beads and many other things is described. The excavation was apparently very “efficient” and done in a day... things were a bit different in those days.

Our collection of old records of Men Scryfa including old images

Collection of historical records and old images of Zennor Quoit

Returning to Maiden Castle

Wandering Danby Rigg

A walk in the park – Calderstones

Winter Solstice at Standingstones Rigg

After the Fire – Wandering John Cross Rigg

List of all antiquities with map and pictures. The numbering is based on Jeremy Butler’s book ‘Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities’, but seems to differ from the numbers I found on site during my visit in 2013.