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Details of the site plus an excellent aerial photograph.

The excellent Yorkshire Dales National Park Authorities Out of Oblivion website Contains – a description of the cave and its archaeology, location details, Public transport details and accessibility information.

“Caithness is well-known for its spectacular prehistoric monuments, but few of us are as familiar with the remarkable
archives that relate to some of them. From the mid-19th century its Neolithic chambered tombs and Iron Age brochs attracted a who’s who of Scottish antiquarians and scholars, and the county was amongst the first to be surveyed by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS 1911). This was in itself a remarkable piece of work, documented in a journal written by Alexander Curle, the first Secretary of the Commission, who visited the majority of the 597 monuments then known between May and September 1910 (RCAHMS MS/36/2). Since that survey, the Royal Commission has carried out relatively little archaeological work in Caithness, so an approach in 2003 by the Caithness Archaeological Trust to carry out a survey of the landscape around Loch of Yarrows and Loch Watenan presented an exciting opportunity....”

A wonderful article published in 1862 written by that all round good egg J .Y. Simpson, M.D., F.R.S.E. Knight of the Royal Order of St. Olaf of Norway, Lately Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Member of the Archæological Societies of Athens, Nassau, Copenhagen, etc. Honorary Professor of Antiquities to the Royal Scottish Academy, and Professor of Medicine and Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh.
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The Cat-Stane, Edinburghshire:is it not The Tombstone of the Grandfather of Hengist and Horsa?

360 degree panorama from next to the barrow.

This chap tracked the stone down but doesn’t give it’s position. If you email him he says he’ll give you directions though.
I’ve got to say the modern photo doesn’t really look like if was part of the original Sack Stone judging from the 1890’s picture unless it was the lowest section – which isn’t too clear in the old pic.

360 degree panorama around Grim’s Mound

With drawings by Maarten van Hoek.

With links to separate collections of the Lower-, Middle-, Upper and East panels.

London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre.

Search online for details of excavations in the city. The area / map search might be useful, or there’s the ‘What? When?’ search where you can narrow it down to everything ‘Neolithic’ for example.

Description of the stone courtesy of the West of Scotland Archaeology Service.

Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society.

Searchable contents lists, with some articles online.

The Gayles gallery which includes a very sexy moist photo of stone D4

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol 107 (1975/6)

A large document with many illustrations which surely must tell you almost everything there is to know about ‘The Stones of Stenness, Orkney’.

Stuart Piggott’s 1940s excavations at Cairnpapple – the document has some beautifully drawn plans.

Scroll down a little to see three Edwardian gentlemen posing casually amongst the stones.

The webpage includes many other interesting old photographs of sites on the mainland. Part of ‘Cornovia – a Cornish Sourcebook’.

A Description of the Encampments on the Hill of Burnswork. From Archaeologica Scotica: transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, volume 1 (1792), and complete with quaint f-shaped s’s.

Strobey, blurry, moving pictures of the carvings in the dark.

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A page with a photo of the cup-marked stone.