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March 23, 2005
March 18, 2005
Brochure of the area with aerial view and maps.
March 13, 2005
A description of the Buckland Rings Iron Age Fort from Hampshire County Council.
New Forest District Council’s description of the Buckland conservation area, which includes the Buckland Rings ancient site. You can download a large scale map of the site which shows the earthworks very clearly.
March 11, 2005
Compelling little leaflet about the history of the Caburn.
The story is told as a series of six “windows in time”,
falling on midsummer days throughout the history of the site
and its people, from 3,000 BC to the present day.
March 9, 2005
Excellent 6 page leaflet with lots of background on this site. It has all the info detailed on the site sign boards – and more!
March 8, 2005
Grimspound features in one of Richard Long’s time/space-spanning artworks: “Dartmoor Time”.
Great Gnat’s Head cairn features in one of Richard Long’s time/space-spanning artworks: “Dartmoor Time”.
Some pics from “The Prehistoric Rock Art of Southern Scotland” (BAR British Series 86, 1981) by Ronald W.B. Morris of the original finding spot of the stone, the upper and lower decorated faces and drawings.
March 4, 2005
The Caburn – Hillfort or ritual enclosure? Article by Mike Haigh.
Article on and diagram of the site.
Summary of the excavation of a causewayed enclosure found at St Osyth’s in Essex.
The Gray Hill Landscape Research Project: A stone circle, possible stone row or standing stones and prehistoric cairns were known on the hilltop, but a GPS-based assessment survey carried out in 1999-2000 by Graham Makepeace on behalf of Monmouthshire County Council identified many more archaeological features..
March 2, 2005
The distinctive outline of Burnswark.
March 1, 2005
Aerial photograph of the hill.
Tyne and Wear’s Historic Environment Record is now online. Click on the magnifying glass icon to take you to the search page.
an interesting site that seeks to prevent the destruction of the henges by increasing their tourism potential.
The place to get the latest on the campaign to save Thornborough. This is where the main campaign to save Thornborough runs. Come here for the petition, information, chat, downloads and a whole lot more. Don’t miss the front page animation.
Definately the best Thornborough campaign information. But then again, I helped build it!
This beautiful website will make your brain ache and your heart leap – proper archaeology?
February 28, 2005
A friend of mine pointed me in the direction of this site with regards to it having pictures of this stone.
There are two pictures showing this stone, one with humans stood next to it for scale.
Clicking “Home” takes you to the main site, with lots of pictures of some of the hillforts in the county.
I will be checking this stone out shortly!
February 24, 2005
Aerial photo of the headland fort.
February 23, 2005
A description of this unclassified Clyde-Type Chamber
February 22, 2005
An image of the Devils Arrows from the British Museums ‘Collect Britain’ on-line galleries.
February 18, 2005
News and discussion about the book Atlantis from a Geographer’s Perspective: Mapping the Fairy Land, by Ulf Erlingsson. A short video presents some of the intriguing details from the book.
The author considers that Plato’s Atlantis was a utopia, but shows that with a probability of over 99.98%, Plato based the description of Atlantis’ geography on Ireland.