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Wonderful footage from the Beckensall archive of Stan at Roughting Linn plus the wonderful Ketley Craggs ‘megalithic lino’.

This photo shows the hills rising clearly above the rest of the landscape. There was a Roman fort on the northernmost – but do you think these imposing landmarks escaped our earlier ancestors? Of course not :) There are still traces of burial cairns, the previous Iron Age fort, and if you want to see the Bronze Age axes once found hereabouts they are now apparently at stcuthbertsway.fsnet.co.uk/add29.html – the Three Hills ‘Roman’ Heritage Centre.

Steve Bulman’s excellent Cumbria resource. Chokka block with parish records and antiquarian goings on.

A photograph of one of the Cremlyn Stones (see accompanying description).

If you are at Kit Hill you may like to visit Dupath Holy Well just to its south. It’s managed by the Cornwall Heritage Trust, and has a reputation for curing whooping cough (should you have such an affliction).

News items from 1999 on the discoveries in The Burren.
Check out the audio files. Archaeologists, historians and thr local farmer talk about the excavations, finds and significance of The Burren

A description of the 2 cup marked stones within spitting distance of the circle.

This page includes a good photo of the tomb from the Museum and a short description. On the same web site the County Antrim page describes Ballin Tagart:

A four-chambered tomb, originally from Ballintaggart in county Armagh, with a shallow forecourt of 4 orthostats with a good part of the cairn and kerb surviving, has been erected on the far side of the Ulster Museum (just beyond the Queen’s University and overlooking the Botanic Gardens). A good overhead view of the tomb may be had from the museum’s cafeteria – though in recent years the monument has become overgrown and is now surrounded by a hideous fence.

In search of Boudica at The Gop – an article by Paul Parry.

Although the website has many styles of photos, I have concentrated on megalithic sites in Ireland over the last few months. The old stones galleries feature hundreds of photos of about 60 megalithic sites across Ireland. Updated regulalry.

Megalithic Ireland has moved to a new server with a new url. I will update the site with lots of new images of Irish megaliths and Irish High Crosses on a regular basis.

Provides a readable interpretation of the sequence of rock carving on the outcrop arising from an excavation by Clive Waddington in 2004.

Rock surfaces carved in the early Neolithic (Phase 1) were later partially quarried and new symbols applied to the exposed surfaces. The Phase 2 carvings are more varied but more crudely executed and take less account of the rock surface. Shortly after they were made, it is likely that they were covered by a cairn incorporating an Early Bronze Age burial cist positioned in a cleft between massive slabs of quarried rock, some with the ancient cup and ring markings. At a much later stage, the outcrop and cairn was embedded into field boundaries of the Iron Age or Romano-British period which may have been partly protective from more extensive quarrying.

The changes in carving between the two phases may imply that the original significance had been lost by the Bronze Age but the power of an already ancient place was adopted to provide a ceremonial monument for the dead.

Views of the stones on Peter Hodge’s website.

A nice antiquarian plan of the Brat’s Hill Circle and a map of the Burnmoor monuments by C.A. Parker.

Radio 4 programme Making History.

The Tristan Stone – is it the Tristan who loved Isolde?

Listener’s query:

“I live in Fowey, Cornwall, and outside of Fowey there is a monolith with the legend ‘Here lies Tristan son of King Mark’. Is the Tristan on the stone monolith the Tristan of the Tristan and Iseult story?“:

Brief summary:

The Tristan Stone, near Fowey in Cornwall, is a weathered monolith about 9 feet high like a Neolithic standing stone. It might even be a Neolithic stone, but it has a worn inscription on it: Drustans hic iacet Cunomori filius, which means “Here lies Drustanus, the son of Cunomorus”.

Continues...

Because I consider myself to be a fairly open-minded fella, I will not describe this interpretation as barmy, that would wrong of me as I have put forward a couple of barmy interpretations of things myself in my time.
I leave you to decide.
I particularly like the kangaroo and the penguin.

The Archaeological Data Service page on the site.

This website is the celebration of rock carvings made by Neolithic and Early Bronze Age people in Northumberland in the north east of England, between 6000 and 3500 years ago. Over 1000 carved panels are known and most of them are still located in the countryside.

The website is also a celebration of the work of Stan Beckensall who has spent 40 years finding and recording this ancient rock art. For many years Beckensall shared his knowledge and recordings of Northumberland rock art through public talks, conference presentations, and richly illustrated publications. Now we have the World Wide Web!

It is our hope that the information and images presented in this website will encourage greater enjoyment of this cultural resource; inspire the creation of new knowledge and insights into Northumberland and British rock art; and set the basis for the effective management and conservation of this ancient resource for future generations.

Brief overview of geophysical & topographical surveys of the BA cremation cemetery.

Oldest continuous inhabited village nearby.

Brief summary of archaeological finds at Dreghorn, a village only a mile from Stanepark.

A nice 360 spinning panorama of the very faint rock art (panel 1a), with obligatory view of Simonside.

This appears to be the page’s current location on HantsWeb (they do like moving it around.. sigh)

Page about Woodbury, includes an extract from Aileen Fox’s “Prehistoric Hillforts in Devon”, and a link to the Clinton Estate pages, which also have a page about the castle.

One of the more ‘objective’ sites relating to Doon Hill.