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Nice pictures of Bronze Age Hoard found near Ashbury (somewhere on the downs)

A nice snowy picture of Craig y Llyn and Llyn Fawr.

also see gtj.org.uk/en/small/item/GTJ31687/

These links show a cauldron and some ‘horse gear’ deposited in Llyn Fawr c800-600BC. The artefacts were discovered when the lake was drained during the process of turning it into an unromantic reservoir, in 1911. The finds include some of the earliest British items made of iron.

The marvellous Sacred Text Archive now provides access to “Stonehenge, A Temple Restor’d to the British Druids” by William Stukeley (1740).

A photo of Belas Knap by Alvin Langdon Coburn.
Also one at
geh.org/ar/strip27/htmlsrc/m197926680002_ful.html#topofimage
No date given, but will be sometime between the 1920s and the 1960s.

An amber bead from the Bronze Age, found on Tap O’ Noth.

Mmmm looks like a tempting caramel sweet.

LEMUR (LEarning with MUseum Resources) allows you to see online the holdings of the University of Aberdeen. This link takes you to their collection of pleasing Neolithic/Bronze Age ‘carved stone balls’, most of which were found in Aberdeenshire.

Hawick cup marked stone (Bavington)

More information on “the rolling sun”

James Mackintosh Gow’s article on ‘Notes in Balquhidder: Saint Angus, curing wells, cup-marked stones, etc’, in the Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 21, 1886-7.

Mostly Slievenamon but some folklore on Sheegouna

Masses more on the church, skull, well and parish here, in an article by Kemmis Buckley (“MBE, DL, MA”).

A few nice pictures (including a plaster cast of a trench) and all three reports on the digs (as part of the hillforts of the ridgeway project).

A Romano-British Farmhouse was built inside the hillfort at a later date.

old B+W photo of Liddington. Research into habitation and structures inside hillforts and how different hillforts performed different functions. The interior of Liddington appears to have had a single roundhouse in the middle of it.

Vast amounts of information about the mines (some of which relates to the prehistoric).

‘EXTREME Archaeology’ at Parys Mountain – a television programme with the ubiquitous Alice Roberts. Includes reports, photos, and various ‘video fly throughs’. Focuses on exploration of the prehistoric parts of the mines.

The panels in numeric sequence.

In 1788, a former vicar of the area, William Crowe, published a long poem about walking up the hill on a May morning. Naturally, it was entitled “Lewesdon Hill”. It was widely praised at the time – even Wordsworth, who lived near the hill at one time, approved.