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This is where the original carved stone from Bryn Celli Ddu is now installed.

The multiple rings are shown quite clearly, though it is pointed out that the stone is probably displaced from it’s original position, based on the assumption that the row of stones in which it is found, may be a medieval field wall.

Stukeley’s map of the ‘snakey’ avenues going through Avebury, and the various monuments around.

From ‘Avebury – A Temple of the British Druids’ courtesy of Lithops’ excellent website.

A plate of the King Stone, from ‘Abury – A temple of the British Druids’ by Stukeley, courtesy of Lithops’ excellent website.

Plates of the Rollrights from ‘Abury – A temple of the British Druids’ by Stukeley, at Lithops’ excellent website.
also
avebury-web.co.uk/plates/plate2.html

Carved slab from Laggan Farm

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Carved slab from Blackmyre Farm

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Some interesting information regarding a number of cup marks found on this feature.

Looking at Iron Man’s photo, cup-like marks can be seen, I wonder if they are the same ones? They remind me of some of the ‘controversial’ cups at The Langdale boulders.

A list of illustrations of the 17 marked stones found in the cairns. Mostly nowt special, mostly single cups, but with a couple of bits that may be vaguely interesting to enthusiasts.

Photo of the hillfort from afar.

Details of a cup and groove marked stone found in the ramparts

Some nice photos and a couple of extracts from the local press

Psst. The eagles might have been deposited 1000 years after the tomb was built, according to this piece in British Archaeology. It probably doesn’t matter.

History of Lady’s Well

British Rock Art Collection

Detail of the cup marked stone with a little bit of background regarding cupmarks in general, and a nice 10 figure grid reference (SX 59480 75261) for this particular stone.

Article from November/December 2005:

“Ireland’s road network is experiencing an astonishing development, with sometimes controversial implications for the country’s rich and largely unexplored rural heritage. Dàire O’Rourke, senior archaeologist at the National Roads Authority, says a new code means everyone will benefit.”

“This hoard was found in a pit dug into the top of an oval cairn. The burial cairn, constructed of limestone rubble, was first opened by A.D. Conyngham in 1848. Surviving records suggest that the hoard was found with a burial. The surviving finds comprise three flint axes and a flint adze, five lozenge-shaped arrowheads, a polished flint knife and two flakes, an antler ‘macehead’ and two boar-tusk blades.”

Various photos of the hoard online here.

BBC Cumbria’s Long Meg Page including the folklore of the witches, Wordsworths ” The monument commonly called Long Meg” and a 360 degree panorama of the stones

The official Orkney Islands Council department