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Dowsing Gogmagog – by WA Clark. Article and pictures about Lethbridge’s exploration of the site.

There’s a photo here of Stan and friends at the rock and the rubbing that was produced.

“The Hitching Stone: An enigmatic boulder on the moors of Yorkshire reveals an intriguing mythological dimension, which is now mostly forgotten.”

Links to the notes from the meetings of the Thornborough Henges Consultation and Working Group over the last couple of years.

YDNPA’s Stoney Raise webpage containing a description of the cairn and a couple of photographs including a lovely aerial view.

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The YDNPA website with a description and photgraph of the site....“Originally described as a stone circle, this is now thought to be an enclosed cremation cemetery of Bronze Age date”.

The YDNPA webpage for Burton Moor including a lovely aerial photograph of the settlement.

“The articles presented here contain a complete record of the prehistoric monuments of northern Clare which were surveyed, described and illustrated by Thomas J. Westropp. The articles were originally published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland between 1896 and 1916”.

Kenneth Brophys 1999 article for British Archaeology.
Although the article is on cursus monuments in general there a quite a few references to the Cleaven Dyke, which he describes as “one of the most awe-inspiring surviving relics of Neolithic monumentality left to us today”.

Samuel Hieronymous Grimm’s painting, 1785, of the gorge before the dam.

Article about the two amateur archaeologists, Mr Mutch and Mr Durbidge, whose discoveries at Pakefield in Suffolk led to the known date of arrival of early humans in northern Europe being pushed back by 200,000 years (to 700,000 years ago). Bravo!

Lucas de Heere’s picture of 1574.

George Owen’s drawing of 1603 depicting the stone burial chamber at Pentrelfan; the earliest known illustrative record of the site.

Details of Headlands Excavation of the Cairn including illustrations of ‘that’ cist cover.

Novembers Issue of PAST No.51
“The Loughcrew Project is studying in detail the wider environs of Slieve na Calliagh. The project developed from Elizabeth Twohig’s interest in Corinne Roughley’s doctoral research use of aerial photogrammetry to study the location of megalithic monuments in the Carnac region of Brittany and how it might be applied to Loughcrew”.

A wonderful resource describing itself as
“An electronic compendium of matters past and present connected with The Isle Of Man”

Mannagh vow cliaghtey cliaghtey, nee cliaghtey coe.
“If custom be not indulged with custom, custom will weep.”

The Full title is “FIRST REPORT OF THE ARCHEOLOGICAL COMMISSIONERS ON THE PRE-HISTORIC MONUMENTS AND OTHER ANTIQUITIES OF THE ISLE OF MAN”

This wonderful report covers Circle on Meayll,Cremation, Cronk-Howe Mooar, Standing Stones, Tumuli, Keeylls, Treeins, and Ancient Cemeteries, Fortifications, Giant’s Grave, Sculptured Stones, Flint Flakes, Arrow-heads, and other Relics.

An engraving of a man on a woolly rhinoceros bone found in Pin Hole Cave – thought to be from the upper Palaeolithic, 12,000 years ago. Though whether it’s truly from this cave or not is another matter (see misc posts).

A 10,000 year old decorated horse jaw, found by Thomas Kendrick in the cave in 1880. It’s “the only piece of artwork dated to the end of the last Ice Age or Late Glacial period in Britain”. It’s all zig-zaggy and I rather like it.

A decorated weaving comb from the Iron Age, made from an antler, and found at Danebury.

A Nice article from Current Archaeology on the excavation of the cairn.

Tees Archaeologys Submerged forest page