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You can just about see the stone in the photo on this webpage. The page describes a walk to Loudoun Hill – if you visit Darvel you won’t be able to miss this striking hill which dominates views to the east: an unusual landscape feature which must surely have caught the eye of our prehistoric ancestors. Check out the photo at the Sorbie Family’s webpages:
sorbie.net/hill_photo.htm

Photos of the cup-marked stone in its dramatic bay.

The record says “There can be no doubt that these markings are artificial and, while several of them are unusually large, the presence among them of many small circular cups, indistinguishable from prehistoric cup-markings, suggest that the whole assemblage may be prehistoric in origin (RCAHMS 1980). ”

A book on the maze.

an alternative view of the great recumbent stone circle including an account of it being dowsed

account of the excavation and restoration of Tomnaverie

aerial photo of the hillfort

excellent aerial photo of the fort showing the ramparts and ditches

The artist Paul Nash painted Wittenham Clumps many times – they had great symbolic significance for him. There is another painting of the clumps on this page: bhikku.net/archives/03/jan03.html (scroll down to see ‘Landscape of the Summer Solstice’).
You may find his work interesting and well worth exploring as he visited and painted many of our ancient landscapes.

New Discoveries of Cave Art in Church Hole (Creswell Crags, England)

An updated report on the Church Hole Cave’s engravings.

the Turnalt Farm website has a photo of the stone

The farm’s own website, with photos of the deer carving.

Tim Bennetts interpretation of the carvings.

David Stokes’ comprehensive webpage has masses of information about the local area and its legendary? historical? site of the battle of Ethandun. He mentions that he played at the stone as a child: he knew that it was stained red, from all the Danes that were beheaded there.
He says it is a different rock to any found locally: I have tentatively changed the category from ‘natural rock feature’ to ‘standing stone’ to reflect this.

The mountain of Slieve Gullion is mentioned many many times in the ancient Irish battle epic, the Táin Bó Cuailnge, as Sliabh Cuilinn. There is a lake at the top of the mountain, known as the “Lake of Sorrow”, or the Calliag Bheara’s lake. There are two cairns either side of the lake.

A magnetometer survey was carried out on behalf of the Avebury World Heritage Site Management Officer to accurately locate the barrow so it could be ‘removed from cultivation’.

Look under ‘Archaeologies’ and ‘Midlothian’ for description and pics

Webpage about Scholes Wood with photo and good description.

Tonnes more pictures.

Listen to Aubrey Manning’s ‘Unearthing Mysteries’ programme on the tri-radial cairns of Northumbria.

About 20 have been found (some are at Lordenshaw. The three arms of the cairns are aligned in the same way; one pointing north and the others at 140 and 240 degrees (SE and SW). That means they could be pointers to the mid-summer and midwinter sunrise and sunset. It’s thought that they’re Bronze Age.

Listen to Aubrey Manning’s ‘Unearthing Mysteries’ programme on the Amesbury Archer, plus extra interviews.

Listen to the ‘Unearthing Mysteries’ programme on the mines presented by Aubrey Manning.

Look under ‘Archaeologies’ and ‘East Lothian’ for more pics and description.

Photographs showing environmental changes over last few years due to water damage. Culverts are filled in and show as dark green on grassland, flora and fauna have changed.

Scholes Coppice, Ancient woodland and Late Neolithic/Mid Iron Age double-ditch earthwork, many photos, water damage due to felling mature trees and gravel filled drainage culverts. LATEST PHOTOS TAKEN MONDAY 16TH AUGUST.
Site has old maps showing clearances.
Member of Stone Circle and Stone Pages webrings
Please visit for my report of a meeting with council managers