Latest Links

A useful page about Falkner’s Circle, including a photograph, a quote from Mr Falkner (who discovered it in 1840) and a link to the report from the 2002 excavation.

This page is from the Trefach Campsite web site and contains amongst other things a panorama of the view from Carn Meini (the page calls it Caermeini or Carn-Meynen depending on the mood of the author!).

This is by no means an excellent example of a panorama, but it’s the only one of Carn Meini I’m aware of. Java support is necessary if you want to see the view.

A concise review from 2002, describing academic postulations on the subject of rock art in the British Isles, with a good bibliography.

Plan of the area. Part of research at Bournemouth University, with contents page at apollo5.bournemouth.ac.uk/knowlton/

Local history site with good prehistoric coverage.

Local history website with good prehistory coverage.

Link to SMR entry

Map of the enclosures – you can see WK longbarrow in red to the west, the stream, field boundaries and roads to orientate yourself by.

A description of the discovery and original setting of an unusual example of portable rock art found in Tyne and Wear.

Maarten van Hoek’s website, with many excellent photos of RA in England, Scotland and Ireland.

With links to his pages on Europe and elsewhere.

Here’s a Multimap link showing where Mill Barrow once stood (SU094722).

This page shows Stukeley’s imagined reconstruction of the cove on the Beckhampton avenue. He believed ‘Adam’ was the remaining stone of the cove – in his day there was another stone nearby that was fallen, and he knew a third was ‘already defroyed by Richd. Fowler’.
Eve is not part of the cove, but a remaining stone of the avenue.

Some of the barrows on North Down.

Aerial view of the enclosure.

Aerial view of the site.

Tom Bullock can add a little further information about Mosley Height.

Another web page with a picture of the well.

Pictures and a description of The Old Wife’s Well from Graeme C.

Archaeologists from Cornwall County Council’s Historic Environment Service are uncovering the early history of Scarcewater, near St.Stephen-in-Brannel, where work on a much needed tip for the china clay industry is to begin shortly.

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